A+W is market leader for software in the flat glass industry as well as in the window and door production. We develop ERP, PPS and optimisation software to make glass and window manufacturers more efficient. Our products are suitable for small, medium and large companies. We have been in the market for over 40 years and sell our products worldwide.

Heterogeneous components - holistic solutions

A+W creates open manufacturing worlds in which the glass and window value chain consists of digitally networked, fully automatic and intelligent processes. People, production plants and information technologies are increasingly coordinated online, in real time and holistically. This enables our customers to refine glass and construction elements efficiently, creatively and sustainably and to sell them profitably. In particular, we support variant production up to batch size 1, which is standard in the glass and window industry.

Modern production environments are always networked systems consisting of powerful machines and intelligent industry software. In the innovation network of glass refiners or window manufacturers, mechanical engineers and software producers, often heterogeneous components are combined to create integrated solutions from practice for practice, which are groundbreaking for the industry.

Promoting cooperation - increasing perception

At A+W, Dr. Klaus Mühlhans, Business Development Director in the area of Software for Glass, together with the VDMA (German Engineering Federation), is driving forward the cooperation for the development of standardized cross-company interfaces. "We want to contribute to making machine communication between heterogeneous plants and to higher-level systems future-proof. In this way, we make complex production landscapes faster, more digital and safer. The standardisation of machine interfaces in accordance with the OPC-UA standard aimed at by the VDMA," says Mühlhans, "will dramatically reduce the amount of work required to set up these interfaces.