Manufacturing Mittelstand · BAFA-funded AI strategy
The funded AI roadmap for your plant and back office
Mittelstand manufacturers see AI claims everywhere and have no neutral answer to the only question that matters: where does it pay off here, in this plant, with these people and systems.
The BAFA grant exists precisely for this: professional strategy consulting, with the state covering 50 to 80 percent of the cost.
Förderweg
Up to 80%
Check
15 minutes: does your company qualify?
Application
PoAWe file with BAFA. You sign one form.
Diagnosis
Shop floor to back office, on real processes.
Roadmap
Use cases ranked by payback and effort.
Your company
Invests where it pays off.
From eligibility check to funded roadmap.
We plan around your systems
The roadmap is grounded in what your systems can support today, not in a greenfield fantasy.
What we typically find and assess
- ERP (SAP, proALPHA, abas)
- MES / BDE
- DMS / document archives
- CAQ & maintenance tools
- The Excel workarounds in between
Every recommended use case names the systems it touches and what they need to support it. No rip-and-replace assumptions.
What you decide with it
- Which use case to implement first, and why
- What it roughly costs and what it should return
- What your team needs internally: data, systems, skills
Who this fits
German manufacturers under 250 employees and under EUR 50m revenue. In the eastern states plus the Lüneburg and Trier regions the grant covers 80%.
Same terms as everything we ship: fixed price quoted after the diagnosis, evaluated on your real data, and you own everything at handover.
Related use cases
Sounds like your manufacturing mittelstand reality?
A 25-minute call tells you whether it fits, what it would measure in your case, and what it would cost.