project Automation & Consulting GmbH
Kranenburg, Germany automation engineering firm (est. 2021); mechanical/electrical engineering and PLC programming for food, beverage, and paper industries.
project Automation & Consulting GmbH (project A&C) is an automation engineering and consulting firm based in Kranenburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The company was founded in 2021 as a spinoff within the project corporate group, which is an innovative cluster of engineering companies located in Kranenburg near Dusseldorf. The project group also includes project Service & Produktion GmbH (project S&P), which provides manufacturing and production capabilities, enabling A&C to operate as a lean engineering office backed by in-house manufacturing.
The company is led by Ingo Rathmann and employs approximately 20 staff with diverse engineering backgrounds. Core services cover the full lifecycle of automation projects: consulting and concept development, mechanical engineering and detailed design, electrical engineering and panel building, PLC and HMI programming, and on-site commissioning and startup support. The team has accumulated practical experience from machine-building projects across multiple process industries including beverages, food, wood, steel, and paper manufacturing.
The company's address is Im Hammereisen 42, D-47559 Kranenburg, Germany. As a relatively young spinoff (2021), project A&C focuses on providing specialist engineering capacity that is independent of equipment vendors, enabling it to work alongside both its sister company's production resources and third-party machine builders. The company's engineering-first positioning — covering planning, mechanical/electrical design, and controls programming through to commissioning — makes it a flexible subcontractor or prime engineering partner for automation projects across German and European industrial clients.
Primary type & automation activities this supplier delivers:
AGV/Cobot Spool-Loading Solution
Free-driving AGV with linear-axis 7-axis cobot automating yarn-spool loading of cabling machines for a textile maker (Saurer)
Custom Gripper Systems
Customer-specific gripper and handling systems engineered for automation and robot cells across industries
Robot & Automation Engineering
Mechanical/electrical engineering, PLC and robot programming and commissioning for new plants and retrofits
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Germany
Company Facts
Founded
2021
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System Integrator
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Europe
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