What happens during the free 60-minute on-site process audit?

A Rowi solutions engineer visits your plant, walks the line with your operations lead, and produces a written baseline covering current OEE, the top three loss sources, and a fixed-scope pilot proposal — typically within five working days.

How quickly can a FlowEngine deployment go live on an existing line?

Across the last 84 deployments, mean commissioning time was 4.2 weeks — down from an industry baseline of 11 weeks. Retrofits on a Siemens, Beckhoff, or Schneider Electric backbone can reach first-good in under three weeks.

Which PLC and line-control ecosystems does Rowi integrate with?

Rowi is a certified gold-tier integrator for Siemens, Beckhoff, and Schneider Electric. The runtime ships native OPC UA, PackML, and Weihenstephan standard compliance for bottling and filling lines.

Is the OEE lift you publish guaranteed?

No — we publish audited averages (11.4 points across 47 reference plants) and quote ranges per engagement. Every contract is anchored to a measurable baseline captured during the on-site audit.

§ 01 — INDUSTRIAL AI · SINCE 2009

The running line on Friday — not the slide deck on Monday.

Rowi GmbH builds industrial AI and edge-control systems that compress commissioning time by up to 62% and lift Overall Equipment Effectiveness by an average of 11.4 points across bottling, filling, and discrete-assembly lines. We are the partner manufacturers call when the consulting deck has to become a running line by week's end.

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Active Lines: 1,184+6 / 30d
Edge Nodes: 37,40214 countries
Mean Time Between Incidents: 9,412 hFlowEngine™ runtime
P1 NOC Response: 14 min24/7 · Stuttgart NOC

§ 02 — FLOWENGINE™

A runtime, not a consulting deliverable. It ships. It stays. It integrates with what already runs on your line.

FlowEngine™ is the proprietary edge-control runtime that has been deployed on 1,180+ lines across 14 countries. It runs natively on Siemens, Beckhoff, and Schneider Electric PLCs, exposes every signal via OPC UA, and keeps your existing PackML state machine intact — so a brownfield line becomes a smart line without a rip-and-replace.

FIELD LAYER Sensors · Actuators · Vision

CONTROL LAYER PLC · PackML · Safety

EDGE LAYER · FlowEngine™ OEE · Predictive · Vision QC · Recipes

OPERATIONS LAYER MES · ERP · Historian · NOC

OPC UA · PackML · Weihenstephan compliant
Certified system integrator — Siemens · Beckhoff · Schneider Electric (gold-tier since 2017)
Open SDK — Rowi Edge SDK used by 9,400+ developers in 71 countries

02.1

Drop-in on brownfield lines

FlowEngine™ sits beside your existing PLC stack as an edge gateway. No code rewrite, no control philosophy reset — your operators keep their HMIs, your maintenance team keeps their fault library.

02.2

Audited 11.4-point OEE lift

Verified across 47 reference plants in DACH and the Benelux within 90 days of deployment. Fraunhofer IOSB-INA audited 2023 commissioning averages at 4.2 weeks (down from 11).

02.3

24/7 NOC, 14-minute P1 response

38 control engineers in our Stuttgart NOC. Mean time between incidents on FlowEngine™ deployments: 9,412 hours. When something moves on the line at 03:00, a human picks up — not a chatbot.

02.4

Reference architecture, public

Rowi is the sole industrial AI vendor to publish a reference architecture endorsed by the VDMA Working Group 4.0. Bring it to your procurement committee — it answers the architecture question before we walk on site.

§ 03 — AUDITED NUMBERS

The figures a sceptical plant manager scans first. Third-party verified — not promised.

11.4 pts OEE lift within 90 days Audited · 47 reference plants · DACH + Benelux

62 % Commissioning time reduction Fraunhofer IOSB-INA · 2023 audit · 11 → 4.2 wks

9,412 h Mean time between incidents FlowEngine™ runtime · 1,180+ deployed lines

97 % Project on-time delivery 84 deployments · 2021–2024

312 active industrial clients
124 engineers · 41% with advanced degrees
6.8 yrs average client tenure
€41.2M 2024 revenue · +34% YoY
14 min average P1 NOC response

§ 04 — AUDIT RESULTS

Three on-site process audits. Three measurable line-level outcomes.

Every engagement begins with a 60-minute on-site audit — a Rowi solutions engineer walks your line, instruments two to four critical assets, and returns a written baseline within five working days. Here is what three of those audits turned into.

DAX-listed beverage group · 3-line filler retrofit

+18.6OEE pts

4.1 wkscommissioning

11 mopayback

"Rowi walked the line on a Tuesday, presented the baseline on Monday, and had FlowEngine™ pushing live recipes by week five. Their auditors measured the OEE lift themselves — that is what closed the deal with our board."

Tier-1 automotive supplier · 11-station assembly line

+9.8OEE pts

3.6 wkscommissioning

8 mopayback

"We briefed three vendors. Rowi was the only one who arrived with an oscilloscope instead of a slide deck. The predictive maintenance model flagged a misaligned torque station three weeks before our condition monitoring would have."

Mid-market dairy · 2-line aseptic filling

+14.2OEE pts

5.0 wkscommissioning

13 mopayback

"The reference architecture document answered 80% of our procurement questions before the first call. By the time we signed, we already knew exactly which signals would be exposed and which OT/IT boundaries would hold. Zero surprise change orders."

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§ 05 — CAPABILITY MATRIX

Confirm the line. Confirm the PLC. Then book the audit.

Rowi deploys on every major industrial control ecosystem. If your line appears below, the audit is worth the 60 minutes.

Bottling & beverage canning
Aseptic filling & dosing
Discrete assembly (automotive tier-1, electronics)
Packaging end-of-line & palletising
Material handling & conveyance
Pharma packaging (non-drug manufacturing)

Siemens S7-1500 / TIA Portal (gold-tier integrator since 2017)
Beckhoff TwinCAT (gold-tier)
Schneider Electric EcoStruxure (gold-tier)
Allen-Bradley / Rockwell Logix
B&R Automation · Mitsubishi MELSEC
Legacy migration paths to OPC UA & PackML

Food & beverage
Automotive & tier-1 supply
Industrial packaging machinery
Consumer goods manufacturing
Chemicals (process, non-regulated)
Metals & forming

ISO 9001:2015 (TÜV Süd, 2024)
IEC 62443-4-1 (TÜV Süd, 2024)
OPC UA · PackML · Weihenstephan
VDMA Working Group 4.0 reference architecture
GDPR-compliant telemetry pipeline
German-engineered code base, on-shore data residency

§ 06 — ENDORSEMENTS

The customers, certifiers, and industry bodies that already vouch for us.

CLIENTS 312 Active industrial clients · four DAX-listed manufacturers

CERTIFICATIONS 2 ISO 9001:2015 · IEC 62443-4-1 (TÜV Süd, 2024)

AWARD 2024 Industrial AI Partner of the Year · European Manufacturing Excellence Awards · Berlin

RECOGNITION 2× "Best Place to Work in Engineering" · Stuttgarter Zeitung · 2023 & 2024

CLIENT LOGODAX-listed beverage group
CLIENT LOGOTier-1 automotive supplier
CLIENT LOGOEuropean packaging OEM
CLIENT LOGOMid-market dairy cooperative
CLIENT LOGOIndustrial automation group
CLIENT LOGODiscrete-assembly leader

Procurement-led buying committee? Send the reference architecture, the audit baseline, and the certification register in one envelope.

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