GERMANY – “tapio” stands for the world’s digital platform for the value chain in the wood industry. tapio combines digital products for the entire wood industry with thousands of production machines as well as a wide range of materials and tools in an IoT platform (IoT = Internet of Things). 

tapio GmbH – headquartered in Munich – was founded in order to operate this cloud-based platform with digital products and data-based services (“smart services”). In short: This digital platform completely covers the whole wood industry value chain. “tapio” combines mechanical engineering know how, service, software and consulting for companies of all sizes worldwide in order to simplify work and increase productivity and quality. The result is a set of unique solutions for an extended range of processes which make individual business processes more efficient, faster and more reliable than ever before.

Therefore, the tapio user is supported in thoroughly exploiting optimization potentials for production and marketing processes. “tapio”, for example, offers a mobile display in real time of the machine’s status for the operator. The digital solution space offers open interfaces to all partners, woodworking companies and technologies: So besides CloudReady machines, older machines can also be integrated into the platform – the same applies to different software solutions or other manufacturers‘ products.