Automation Engineering Zurich

Greater Zurich-Winterthur-Zug is one of Europe's densest OEM and machinery clusters. Bühler in Uzwil produces plants for food, animal feed and pharma worldwide, Schindler in Ebikon is the global market leader for elevators and escalators, Sulzer in Winterthur manufactures pumps and runs global service engineering, Rieter in Winterthur builds textile machines, ABB Switzerland in Baden supplies drive and robotics technology, Siemens Switzerland in Zurich markets the entire portfolio from TIA to Digital Factory. On top, dozens of mid-sized special machine builders operate in Wallisellen, Effretikon, Schlieren, Bülach and Wettingen. These OEMs' engineering teams are usually well staffed – but need external capacity for retrofit projects on legacy plants worldwide, for reverse engineering of lost programs or for short-notice commissioning when the in-house team is tied up. Typical scenario: an end customer of the Zurich OEM needs commissioning support in Asia or the USA, the internal engineering team is committed on other major projects. That's exactly where a flexibly deployable EU partner adds value – travel readiness, 15+ years of commissioning experience on four continents, Siemens focus. Focus areas for Zurich customers: retrofit of S5 and S7-Classic to S7-1500 with TIA Portal V18/V19 in OEM machines, HMI retrofit to WinCC Unified with modern web frontend and multi-language operator interface, worldwide commissioning of OEM plants (typically two to six weeks on site), reverse engineering for lost symbols, functional safety per EN ISO 13849 with F-CPUs and SISTEMA calculation. Integration into the OEM team's existing engineering standards is standard practice: TIA libraries, faceplate templates, Git versioning. Cross-border compliance before every Swiss assignment: SEM notification, A1 certificate, reverse-charge invoicing. Drive from Mettlach: 5:15 h via A4/A36/Basel/A2 or by train Saarbrücken–Mannheim–Zurich HB.