More productive manufacturing. Well-thought-out, connected, and put into practice.
The Manufacturing Alliance brings together experienced industry partners, real-world manufacturing expertise, and the SPREITZER 2.0 show factory to achieve a clear goal: increased productivity, greater process reliability, and gradual automation in metalworking companies.
We help medium-sized manufacturing companies analyze their processes, identify opportunities for automation, and define realistic implementation steps—from ERP, MES, CAD/CAM, and tool management to clamping technology, pallet automation, measurement technology, and lights-out manufacturing.
Manufacturing companies are fighting on many fronts at once: rising costs, a shortage of skilled workers, shorter lead times, smaller batch sizes, and higher demands for quality and process reliability. Those who merely manage these developments will gradually lose their competitive edge.
This is exactly where the Manufacturing Alliance comes in: not with theoretical visions of the future, but with concrete measures for more stable processes, shorter setup times, improved machine availability, and realistic preparation for automated manufacturing.
Digitalization, AI, and automation can only be effective if the fundamentals are in place: clean master data, well-managed manufacturing processes, secure clamping concepts, reliable tools, well-designed pallet and reference systems, and a clear link between planning, manufacturing, and quality assurance.
The Manufacturing Alliance does not view these areas in isolation. We bring together the right specialists and use their expertise to develop a realistic implementation plan—step by step, technically sound, and focused on measurable benefits.
Expertise across the entire manufacturing chain
The Manufacturing Alliance brings together specialists from the key areas of modern manufacturing: ERP, MES, CAD/CAM, NC simulation, tool management, clamping technology, pallet automation, robotics, metrology, cleaning, AI-supported processes, and industrial implementation.
The benefit for the customer: The individual components are not viewed in isolation, but rather as an integrated production system.
Many optimization projects fail not because of individual products, but because of a lack of coordination between planning, machinery, automation, clamping technology, tools, measurement technology, and organization. The Manufacturing Alliance brings these perspectives together.
We help identify technical dependencies early on, avoid poor investments, and structure projects so that they work in real-world manufacturing environments
Each partner in the Manufacturing Alliance represents a clearly defined area of expertise. The result is not just any network, but a practical consortium of companies that take on specific tasks in real-world manufacturing projects: analyzing, planning, delivering, integrating, supporting, and optimizing.
We don’t start with off-the-shelf solutions. We first identify where actual productivity is being lost within the company: in planning, during data transfers, during setup, in clamping technology, with tools, at the machine, in measurement technology, or in material flow.
This results in a prioritized roadmap. Not everything at once. Instead, the right steps in the right order.
In the real-world production environment of our Show Factory, we implement the concepts, software tools, and automation solutions developed by the Manufacturing Alliance and its partners. Proven, implemented concepts and fully functional software and hardware form the foundation of our consulting work—efficient, practical, and free of impractical top-down directives or buzzword bingo. As practitioners with decades of experience in the manufacturing world, we know what we’re talking about.
SPREITZER 2.0 is the Manufacturing Alliance’s real-world show factory. Here, modern manufacturing processes, automation solutions, software tools, clamping technology, pallet automation, and quality processes are not only showcased but also put to use in the company’s own production environment.
This is what makes our work credible: We don’t talk about theoretical ideal scenarios. We show which steps are realistic, practical, and economically feasible for a medium-sized manufacturing company.
