UNITY Innovation Alliance

The UNITY Innovation Alliance supports companies with all-encompassing expertise in digitalizing business models, products and services – from concepts to implementation. The member companies of the UNITY Innovation Alliance contribute their specific expertise to make their customers digitalization winners. The UNITY Innovation Alliance consists of companies in which UNITY Beteiligungs-AG holds a majority stake. In the future, more companies will complement this alliance as start-ups or acquisitions by providing customers with added value from the very beginning.

The following companies are members of the UNITY Innovation Alliance: UNITY Consulting & Innovation is the management consultancy for innovation and digital transformation. NEXT Data Service delivers individual solutions in the area of data services and artificial intelligence. Smart Mechatronics handles product development and technology consulting for intelligent, connected products. Contech develops and produces intelligent electronics: from prototype construction to series production. HYPERTEGRITY designs platform enabling technology solutions with comprehensive security features. Moreover, our customers also profit from our close collaboration with other partners such as the Fraunhofer IEM and the Heinz Nixdorf Institute.

This Alliance will be expanded with other start-ups and holding companies that complement the range of services offered by the core companies. Currently, these include CAIENTA, ORGArena, Heero Technology, b-cube and UNITY Solutions. The UNITY Innovation Alliance will also be expanded in the future by start-ups and Holding companies if they offer our customers added value in the collaborative structure.

• High-Performance “Best in Class” sewing technology in a future-proof platform concept
• Optimal value for customers and the manufacturer
• Excellent customer feedback after the product launch

• introduced artificial intelligence into OR planning
• automate planning processes
• Improved accuracy of OR planning by 35%
• Reduced employee Overtime hours by 21%
• OR occupancy rate increased by 21%

• Development of a maturity model to determine the degree of digitalization for corporate customers
• Implementation of an IT-supported tool for the application of the VR DigitalCheck in the discussion with the corporate customer
• Development of formats for the training of bank employees on the topic of digital transformation
• Implementation of Digital Bootcamps to train employees and managers on the topic of digitalization at corporate clients
• Carrying out an internal maturity check to determine the degree of digitalization of the bank

• Extensive data engineering
• Detection of scratches on vehicles with neuronal networks
• Integration into the logistics process
• Reduction of manual testing costs for vehicles
• Next Step: Industrialization of data services and conception for automatic Claim management

• Define and analyze requirements, product concept including deriving all functions in cooperation with development and product management (methodically with CONSENS)
• Concept development (HW/SW)
• 3D Implementation of power electronics and software
• Implementation of several sample loops in our own laboratory and at external partners (hardware and mechanics/ Plastics)
• VDE certification support (Association for Electrotechnology, Electronics and Information Technology)

• Customer: FRITSCH is an innovative leader in the industry of baking Engineering and technology
• Goal: To provide innovative services in production plants; create customer advantages in plant availibility, product quality and user support
• Why the UNITY Innovation Alliance?: The close and well-established collaboration within the UNITY Innovation Alliance is attributed to broad-based competencies from strategy development to implementation
• Award: FRITSCH received the Industry Innovation prize, the “iba Award” again, for the first time in software-based digital services