Making complexity manageable

Decoding Complexity: How manufacturing companies can remain competitive in the future

The real challenge does not usually lie in the individual factors, but in how they interact with each other. They usually occur simultaneously and reinforce each other. It is precisely these interactions that determine whether complexity becomes a success factor or a competitive disadvantage.

Under the tagline “Decoding Complexity,” Tebis will demonstrate at AMB 2026 how manufacturing companies can master the challenges of increasing complexity and lay the foundation for future-proof and scalable manufacturing processes.

Jens Lüdtke, Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) and Member of the Board at Tebis AG, explains: “The discussion within the industry is currently heavily focused on artificial intelligence. We are convinced that the key question is no longer which technologies to use but how companies can manage their increasing complexity and translate it into high-performance processes. That is why we take a clear process-first approach. We help companies integrate knowledge, processes, data, and existing systems end-to-end while making better use of their existing investments instead of replacing them. This creates the prerequisites for greater productivity, higher speed, and lower operating costs. Only on this basis can automation and artificial intelligence unfold their full potential.”

The process provider as a response to growing complexity
For more than 40 years, Tebis has been helping manufacturing companies standardize, digitize, and continuously improve their manufacturing processes. This experience has produced an approach that helps companies make increasing complexity manageable – step by step.

As a process provider, Tebis supports its customers – from analyzing the initial situation to designing and implementing new processes through to continuous optimization.

This is based on five coordinated modules:

• Process analysis
• Tebis.OS, the Tebis operating system
• Individualized process design
• Implementation
• Optimization

The Tebis solution is flexible enough to start with a specific process and scalable enough to grow incrementally with the demands of the company.

Tebis.OS combines systems instead of replacing them
By showcasing Tebis.OS, the Tebis operating system, at AMB, Tebis reveals insights into the next development steps of this approach.

Tebis.OS combines systems, data, and processes end-to-end and across manufacturers into a mutual digital process landscape. Existing applications and investments are retained. CAD/CAM, ERP, MES, PLM, QMS, and other systems are gradually being integrated and networked with each other.

Tebis.OS is therefore not meant to replace existing solutions but to integrate them intelligently.

At the same time, Tebis.OS lays the foundation for the use of new technologies. Tebis understands artificial intelligence as an enabler of end-to-end processes.

With this approach, AI supports companies in

• Reducing non-value creation activities,
• Making knowledge available more quickly,
• Preparing decisions,
• Improving the utilization of automation potentials, and
• Refining processes continuously.

NEXT40 makes the future visible
With the NEXT40 research project, Tebis has shown in exemplary fashion how new technologies, automation, and digital connectivity can be planned for future manufacturing environments.

The project is thus emblematic of the tagline “Decoding Complexity” – giving an insight into tomorrow's manufacturing horizon.

Bringing processes to life
In addition, Tebis will present an interactive trade show table that demonstrates how complexity develops at modern manufacturing companies and how it can be managed.

This table lets visitors visualize the interaction of information, decisions, systems, and processes, while teaching them about the impact of standardization, connectivity, and automation on a company’s performance.

This makes the concept of a process provider immediately tangible.

Shaping the future together
At AMB, Tebis will take the opportunity to speak with selected companies about future applications and pilot projects.

The goal is to develop new solutions in collaboration with customers and to incorporate practical experience into further development at an early stage.