We don’t simply digitize existing workflows. We understand them, question them and rebuild them when it makes sense.
Behind secondFactory are more than 30 years of experience in software development, electronics, automation, machine control and business management.
From microcontrollers, PLCs, G-Code, servo drives, stepper motors and encoders to modern AI systems, databases and fully networked production processes: we don’t just know the software side of a machine or a company.
We also know the reality behind it.
Our experience ranges from classic electronics and microcontroller development through machine and plant control systems to today’s AI-assisted software systems.
This includes, among other things:
We haven’t just observed technological change – we have lived through it ourselves for decades.
Technology alone is not enough to improve an operation.
Behind secondFactory are around 30 years of experience as an entrepreneur and employer – with a total of more than 200 employees over this period.
We know responsibility for personnel, project business, time pressure, customer requirements, construction sites, planning, costing, change orders, documentation, the cost of errors and the many small processes that cost time and money every day in a company’s day-to-day operations.
As a result, we don’t look at a company solely from a programmer’s point of view.
We view purchasing, office, planning, design engineering, production, machine, employees, warehouse, logistics, construction site, billing and management as one connected process.
For a time, this also included working as a lecturer in wind turbines and plant engineering.
Only then do we decide which solution makes sense.
That is why secondFactory can go far beyond a classic software implementation.
If desired, we work with the company to analyze the complete process chain – from the first customer contact to delivery and billing.
We don’t look for the fastest way to install our software.
We look for ways your company can work better.
Existing processes can be adopted if they make sense.
Others are simplified.
Some are fully automated.
And if a process is unnecessarily complicated, we don’t simply automate a bad process – we first try to make it better.
The company doesn’t have to adapt to secondFactory.
secondFactory is adapted to the company.
Machines, employees, workstations, existing software, databases, workflows and the specific characteristics of an operation can be incorporated into the solution.
From inquiry through quote, planning and design engineering to production, quality assurance, warehouse, logistics, personnel and controlling, this can result in an end-to-end digital process chain.
In the process, existing systems can continue to be used and connected.
Our goal is not to replace as much existing technology as possible. Our goal is for everything to work together in a way that makes sense.
We can understand a business process.
We can understand the machine behind it.
And we can build the software that connects the two.
It is precisely this combination that sets secondFactory apart from classic business software and also from classic management consulting.
It starts with understanding your company.
