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Developments, Innovations, and Insights around Engineering Automation, CAD
and Process Automation, Product Configuration, Integration and the Lino Team
Product and Company News
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
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.
TECHNICAL ARTICLE
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.
PRESS RELEASES
Review DSAK 2025
12th User Conference on End-to-End Process Automation in Sales, Project Planning, Design, and Manufacturing
Leading Innovation for Sales, Engineering, and Manufacturing
PRESS RELEASES
Lino GmbH Austria becomes a 100% subsidiary of Lino GmbH Germany
In March 2025, Lino GmbH in Mainz acquired all shares in Lino GmbH Austria to intensify the commercialization of the Lino® Hub integration platform in the region. At the same time, Rüdiger Dehn, founder and Managing Director of Lino GmbH in Mainz, was appointed Managing Director of Lino GmbH Austria (Wien).
PRESS RELEASES
Lino GmbH Receives Research Funding for Lino® Hub
Approved research funding for the years 2020 to 2026 recognizes the significance and technological innovation strength of Lino GmbH in the field of Industry 4.0