Our Partners
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Partnerships that Drive Innovation
Lino collaborates with leading technology companies, universities, research institutes, consultancy firms and clients – partnerships that are carefully selected, designed for the long term and conducted on an equal footing. As a team dedicated to leading innovation and providing excellent service, we work in partnership, with transparency and on the basis of mutual benefit. This fosters collaborations that drive Engineering Automation forward and create measurable added value for all involved.
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“We serve our customers with great dedication and extensive experience, prioritize fair collaboration with experts, and see ourselves as a software and consulting firm that understands, markets, develops, and implements innovative Engineering Automation solutions,” explains Rüdiger Dehn, Managing Director of Lino GmbH, outlining the company’s principles.
Frequently Asked Questions about the Lino Partnership
A knowledge base covering the partnership with Lino and providing answers on how to work together towards engineering automation.
The partnership with Lino is aimed at companies that wish to approach and implement engineering automation across multiple systems. The focus is on how complex product logic, processes and variants can be orchestrated at an enterprise level in collaboration with partners.
In this FAQ section, you will find concise answers regarding the objectives, benefits and requirements of working with Lino. This will give you a clear understanding of how partnerships are structured and how they can contribute to digital transformation in the mechanical and plant engineering sector.
Is Lino competing with Design Automation solutions?
Lino deliberately does not position itself in opposition to traditional design automation solutions such as DriveWorks, KBMax or CustomX, but rather complements them. While design automation optimizes execution within individual systems, Lino orchestrates engineering decisions across systems and creates a central, independent rule-based logic.
Why does Lino generally require less administrative effort than tool-centric Design Automation solutions?
Lino reduces administrative overhead by managing rules and logic centrally and independently of specific systems. This eliminates duplicate logic, custom scripts, and tool-specific customizations. Changes can be defined once and reused across all systems, ensuring that the workload remains predictable and scalable over the long term.
What role does digitalization play in a Lino partnership?
The partnership with Lino actively supports companies in their digital transformation in the mechanical engineering sector. By centrally managing product and process logic, digital, automated, and traceable workflows can be established across all systems.
How does Lino differ from traditional integration solutions in engineering?
Unlike traditional integration solutions, which merely connect systems, Lino takes a “definition over integration” approach. This not only ensures connectivity between systems but also defines how they work together within complex engineering processes.
What are the benefits of partnering with Lino?
Collaborating with Lino makes it possible to define product logic centrally and execute it across systems. As a result, partners benefit from improved variant management, greater process reliability, and end-to-end automation from sales through to manufacturing.
What types of companies would benefit from partnering with Lino?
A partnership with Lino is particularly beneficial for companies in the mechanical and plant engineering sectors, as well as for system integrators, CAD/CAM resellers, and IT consulting firms that need to manage complex product variants and engineering processes. Typical target groups include organizations with a wide range of product variants and business-critical technical processes.
Why partner with Lino in the field of engineering automation?
A partnership with Lino involves collaborating to implement engineering automation solutions for industrial companies. This approach not only integrates existing systems such as CAD, CAM, PLM, and ERP, but also manages them through a central definition layer to map complex engineering processes efficiently and scalably.