Digital Solutions for Smart Manufacturing and IoT: DI + Slalom Germany

Munich Digital transformation is gaining momentum, and manufacturing companies are facing familiar questions: How can digital solutions, from production to product, be implemented in a sustainable, future‑ready way? How can organizations avoid common pitfalls like high licensing costs for IoT platforms, limited scalability, a missing return on investment, and inflexible systems? Device Insight and Slalom Germany have now joined forces to adress these questions with end-to-end solutions.

Digitalisierungslösungen für IoT und Smart Manufacturing. Driving Digital Solutions. Device Insight + Slalom.
  • Rethinking digital solutions: strategic partnership combines expertise in strategic consulting, system integration, IIoT, AI-driven data analytics, and solution operation
  • Focus is to jointly deliver customized digital solutions that tackle high costs, rigid systems, and scalability challenges.

From shopfloor to the cloud: proven expertise in delivering digital solutions

Slalom Germany and Device Insight have been successfully addressing these challenges for years. Now, through a strategic partnership, they are combining deep technological expertise, proven industry experience, and end‑to‑end strategic consulting. Manufacturers can rely on even more comprehensive, results‑driven support for their digitalization initiatives.

What sets this partnership apart is its holistic approach: companies receive guidance across the entire digital value chain, from strategic planning and implementation to 24/7 operations of cloud‑based solutions. They benefit from Slalom’s consulting strength in data, analytics, and AI, as well as Device Insight’s extensive hands‑on expertise in (I)IoT connectivity, system integration, and operations.

“Many companies are looking for IoT solutions for the shop floor or smart products that go beyond standard offerings, for solutions that are cost‑efficient, customizable, and avoid vendor lock‑in,” says Dr. Stephan Theis, Managing Director and Data Analytics Lead at Slalom Germany. “Our partnership bridges exactly that gap, enabling digital transformation that’s grounded in real-world shopfloors, not unrealistic visions.”

Combined expertise enables seamless end-to-end digital solutions

On the project level, this partnership brings together the core strengths of both organizations to deliver truly integrated offerings. Slalom Germany contributes expertise in data, analytics, and AI, combined with holistic consulting and hyperscaler solutions. Device Insight adds over 20 years of experience in designing, implementing, and operating cloud‑native data intelligence solutions, linking machine data with ERP systems, production planning, and service processes to create real value from raw data.

Together, Slalom Germany and Device Insight cover IoT projects from strategy to implementation through to operations. Modular solution components such as CENTERSIGHT scale from Device Insight and additional software modules, for example in energy optimization, enable fast, flexible, and demand‑driven implementation with measurable results.

“Many companies already have IoT solutions in place on their shopfloors, but they’re often isolated, consume high licensing costs andprovide limited integration into their enterprise IT,” explains Marten Schirge, Managing Director and CSMO at Device Insight. “We focus on keeping operational costs low while maximizing flexibility and scalability. Our data intelligence platforms provide the foundation for ongoing transformation and new use cases across the company, unlocking additional value through data science and AI.”

Partnership in action: Slalom Germany and Device Insight at the Smart Manufacturing Meetup powered by AWS

The partnership is now live. Together with AWS manufacturing specialists, experts from both companies have already shared insights into current technologies and key industry challenges at the joint Manufacturing Meetup at AWS’ offices in Munich. The focus was on data strategy, the potential of AI, and particularly agentic AI, and best practices from joint projects between KUKA and Device Insight.

Further joint initiatives and workshops are in planning and will be announced via the Device Insight News Blog and on LinkedIn.

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