About us
From manufacturing, not from software.
Twelve years of management consultancy in manufacturing companies. The first line of code for condition monitoring only came after years in practice.
Founder, managing director, software architect
Sascha P. Forbach
Too often I have seen a spindle run until it stops running. Then the machine stands still for days or weeks, and nobody can say when the damage first gave warning.
At 18 I began studying business administration alongside my job and completed a bachelor's degree. For twelve years I have worked as a management consultant with an unusually concrete focus: manufacturing processes, quality assurance and machine availability in manufacturing companies. The signals that announce a spindle failure have long been measurable. They simply are not analysed.
That is where our product came from: condition monitoring for mixed machine fleets of the kind found in every contract manufacturer (job shop). As software architect, I designed the edge box and the platform myself. They follow one rule: the machine is only ever read, never changed.
Conviction
German industry does not win on price. It wins when its machines run when they have to.
Manufacturers in Asia and Eastern Europe are cheaper, and that will not change. What they cannot copy so easily is reliable delivery at the highest precision. That is exactly what is lost when a spindle fails unexpectedly.
A German manufacturer that has its downtime under control delivers on time, holds tolerances and plans maintenance instead of suffering it. That is what we build our system for. Sascha P. Forbach
Mindset
I keep my own hands on the controls.
Wherever I am, I do not hand over responsibility. And for me, 100 per cent is only just good enough.
That is also how aviation thinks. Checks are made before every flight, not only once something fails. We build our system with the same attitude: a spindle announces its damage, and we make sure someone looks in time.
Background
How we got here.
- 2014Start in management consultancyAdvising manufacturing companies with a focus on process quality and machine availability.
- 2016Focus on machiningContract manufacturers and toolmakers with mixed CNC machine fleets. That is where most unplanned downtime occurs, and where there are the fewest useful tools against it.
- 2021First concepts for spindle monitoringVibration analysis on spindle bearings, and the question of which signals CNC controls actually expose via OPC UA.
- 2025Forbach and Partners Ltd foundedA dedicated company for developing the platform, registered in Cyprus, with a contact in Düsseldorf (Germany).
- 2026Platform and edge box fully developedSoftware architecture by Sascha P. Forbach. Encrypted connection, certificate exchange and read-only user rights tested against a secured SINUMERIK environment. Market launch with the first manufacturing customers.
Principles
What you can hold us to.
In a market full of promises, what a supplier rules out says the most about it.
What we commit to
- We never intervene in your CNC control, with four independent technical safeguards.
- One view for all makes on your shop floor.
- Every alert with explainable reasoning.
- Data exclusively in data centres in Germany.
- A clear answer in the introductory call on whether your CNC control can be connected.
What we do not promise
- No “zero downtime”. Nobody can guarantee that.
- No prediction to the day.
- No optimisation of speed or feed. That would mean writing to your machine.
- No figures from other people's projects presented as what you should expect.
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