STIWA Group: Key Player in the New Mobility

The targeted use of digitalization and automation creates exactly those competitive advantages that are needed to stay ahead in global competition. With a process time reduced by a factor of 5, the STIWA Group puts its customers in the fast lane. This makes STIWA a key player in highly efficient battery production.

About STIWA
STIWA is an international company based in Austria, Europe, with more than 2,400 employees on three continents and a turnover of more than 400 million US dollars in the fiscal year 2023/24. In the USA, STIWA is located in South Carolina and soon also in Canada.

STIWA's automation, product, and software solutions set new standards in the field of fully automated production. STIWA enables a radical reduction of process times with shortest cycle times, far below one second, at a constant high-performance level (OEE). This creates a decisive competitive advantage for the customer. The combination of automation, manufacturing and software is unique in the market. As a manufacturer STIWA combines modern mechanical engineering with efficient high performance manufacturing technologies as well as extensive software tools. 

STIWA Manufacturing - Assemblies & Components for New Mobility
STIWA Manufacturing stands for innovative and cost-optimized product solutions from the first idea to serial production. With product and process development, prototyping, industrialization and production in house, STIWA Manufacturing acts as a global one-stop-shop. With a broad portfolio of state-of-the-art manufacturing technologies, supported by an in-house tool shop, STIWA offers its customers highly innovative solutions in scalable realization stages - in the future also for assemblies and components in New Mobility.

STIWA Automation - Specialist for high performance automation
For more than 50 years STIWA Automation accompanies its customers along the entire product life cycle with high in-house added value, from the product idea with DFM/DFA and process development over the project implementation to the support of the continuous series production. The focus is on total cost (TCO) and total benefit.

In the field of battery cell manufacturing STIWA Automation has established a high level of expertise in the areas of cell assembly and electrolyte filling, module and pack assembly as well as inverter and e-drive automation.

STIWA Shopfloor Software - Full transparency and control of the entire production process

Specialized software solutions and efficient technical analysis ensure noticeable performance and quality improvements in battery production. In addition, STIWA's AI-supported software enables full transparency and traceability of all production processes and thus guarantees 100% transparency (Battery pass). STIWA Shopfloor software solutions provide the necessary data for solid decisions in production and enable the control of production lines with a comprehensive control center in heterogeneous machine park. With Shopfloor Analytics and Business Intelligence (BI) STIWA creates the basis to optimize productivity and to minimize start-up phases of machines and plants.

Especially the connection of Operational Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT) is the key for machine optimization. STIWA uses standardized interfaces and relies on common industry standards such as OPC-UA or ProfiNet. The STIWA Machine Connector (MaCo) interface is available for even deeper data integration. It is used on thousands of machines worldwide.