Custom industrial software for your production

Custom industrial software is software developed for the processes, plants and quality requirements of a specific manufacturer, instead of adapting the business to an off-the-shelf product. Typical examples are recipe management, shop floor apps, machine data dashboards, batch documentation or maintenance platforms. wunderwerk develops such solutions for chemicals, manufacturing, production and plant engineering and connects them with the systems already in place.

An MES (manufacturing execution system) is the link between ERP and the shop floor: it controls, records and documents what actually happens at machines and workstations. Many mid-sized companies don’t need a full off-the-shelf MES, just some of its functions, such as production data acquisition, shift logs, production feedback or batch documentation. wunderwerk builds exactly these functions, lean and tailored to your business, or extends an existing MES where it has gaps.

That depends on how far your processes differ from the standard. If an off-the-shelf product largely covers your process, it is usually the better choice, and wunderwerk will tell you so. Custom software pays off when the crucial part of your process, such as recipes, special processes or the software for your own plant, cannot be handled by the standard product or forces you into costly workarounds. Often the answer is a combination: standard where it works, custom where it falls short.

Yes, via the interfaces your plants provide, such as OPC UA, MQTT, a database or file exports. wunderwerk develops the software above the control level, i.e. data acquisition, user interfaces, logic and integration with ERP or MES. The PLC programming itself stays with you or your automation partner, with whom we coordinate the interface.

Yes. wunderwerk connects industrial software via interfaces to ERP systems such as SAP, Microsoft Dynamics or odoo and to existing MES and lab software. Orders and master data come from the ERP, feedback and measurements go back. How we automate interfaces and processes outside production is shown on the process automation page.

With a single process that measurably costs time or quality today, for example the shift log, recipes or the machine data of one line. wunderwerk analyses this process, builds a prototype in 4 to 8 weeks and only then expands to further lines or modules. That keeps the risk small, and every step has to pay off before the next one follows.

The price depends on the scope, the number of plants and systems, the quality of the existing interfaces and the requirements for documentation and operation, so there is no serious flat rate. After the process analysis, wunderwerk gives you a transparent cost range, and you commission each phase separately, from prototype to expansion. You can get a first estimate via the cost calculator or in the initial consultation.

At wunderwerk, a working prototype is often feasible in as little as 4 to 8 weeks, depending on scope and integration. This is followed by a pilot on one line, rollout and expansion in short steps, each with a result your people use in their daily work.

Industrial software has to run securely and reliably, which is why wunderwerk develops with a focus on access security, data protection and system stability. On request, the software runs on your plant network, in a private cloud or hosted in the EU, with permissions, audit logs and backups. Write access to plants only comes once the process has proven itself in read-only operation.

AI helps in production wherever enough data is generated: analysing process and quality data, spotting patterns and deviations early, predicting maintenance needs or reading documents such as inspection reports and delivery notes. wunderwerk integrates AI and machine learning into industrial software once the data foundation is in place, because without clean machine and production data, any AI remains an experiment. Find out more on the AI for businesses page.

Often yes, but not blindly. With existing software, wunderwerk starts with a paid analysis of code, technology, operation and rights, and then recommends whether continuing, modernising step by step or rebuilding is worthwhile. How this works is explained on the software modernisation page.

Yes. wunderwerk develops operating, recipe and service applications for machine and plant builders that are shipped with the plant and developed further over the years. One example is a recipe editor for a highly sensitive industrial process that runs in plants in Sweden, Italy and the Czech Republic.

Yes, digitalisation projects in production are funded in Austria, Germany and Switzerland through various programmes, depending on country, region, company size and project. wunderwerk carries out an initial funding check with you and shows which options apply to your project. The easiest way is in the free initial consultation.

Because we combine process understanding with software expertise, from recipe development to batch documentation, and build lasting software that runs for years. wunderwerk is a small, well-coordinated team of software architects, full-stack developers and AI engineers in Tyrol, Vienna and Berlin with over 20 years of experience. You talk directly to the managing director, own the source code and get support beyond go-live.