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In this section, we inform you about new technologies, product updates, partnerships, and developments at Lino. Discover current topics around integration, design automation, and digital transformation in the machinery industry.
TECHNICAL ARTICLE
System Integration: The Difference Between Point Solutions and End-to-End Continuity
Why many manufacturers still transfer part numbers and BOMs by hand between CAD, PDM, and ERP – and what that manual work really costs engineering teams.
TECHNICAL ARTICLE
Engineering Automation: How Mechanical and Plant Engineers Seamlessly Connect Sales, Engineering, and Manufacturing
Why redundant data entry across CAD, PDM, ERP, and CRM causes up to 30% of engineering errors – and how Engineering Automation fixes the root cause.
PRESS RELEASES
Still Planning Facility Layouts on 2D Floor Plans? You Are Risking the Contract!
Why abstract 2D floor plans become a costly competitive disadvantage in plant engineering – and how 3D layout planning prevents assembly surprises.
TECHNICAL ARTICLE
Three days to build a variant that a rule set could have generated in minutes. Why manual design processes are no longer defensible.
Any manufacturer still asking its engineers to model standard variants by hand and type metadata into a PDM system one field at a time is not wasting money. It is wasting engineering judgement. That distinction matters.
LINO SIMPLIFY
Manual 3D model simplification isn’t a process. Its a waste of resources.
Anyone who still removes screws, holes, and internal assemblies manually from a SolidWorks model before sending it to a supplier is paying a price—in terms of labor hours, the risk of errors, and tied-up engineering capacity. This process can be automated. And there’s no good reason to wait.
CASE STUDIES
STEIN Automation: 3D layouts for customer proximity and modular flexibility
How STEIN Automation digitized its layout planning with Lino® 3D layout, Lino® 2D fix, and Tacton® Design Automation to win customers faster.
CASE STUDIES
GC-heat: Turbo product configuration with integrated add-ons
How GC-heat uses Tacton CPQ and Design Automation to cut quoting time and improve data quality in electric heating system manufacturing.
CASE STUDIES
Erhardt+Leimer: Smart configuration for millions of variants
How Erhardt+Leimer configures millions of product variants in minutes instead of hours using Tacton Design Automation and Lino tools.
PRESS RELEASES
With Lino Expertise to series production of nanosatellites
Lino GmbH is a project partner in the FORnanoSatellites research cluster, a consortium of four scientific institutions and 14 industrial partners led by Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. The aim is to research new technologies in order to promote the establishment of series production for nanosatellites in Bavaria in the long term. In July 2025, the Bavarian Transformation and Research Foundation provided almost 1.8 million euros in funding for the three-year project.