We make standard times comparable
SynCore is built at the intersection of industrial production engineering and modern software. We build the time logic that costing, capacity planning and site decisions can actually rest on.
Why SynCore exists
Europe builds the best machines in the world. And plans them in Excel.
Walk into a plant in Upper Austria, in Baden-Württemberg, in northern Italy. You will see engineering the rest of the world queues up for. Machines that run for thirty years. People who learned their trade the way their foremen taught it, and who will pass it on.
Then ask: when will order 4711 be finished? The answer arrives after a glance at a spreadsheet, a call to the shop floor and a gut feeling. It is usually roughly right — and it is the most expensive answer in the company, because delivery dates, staffing decisions and capital investment all rest on it.
That is the gap. Not in the machines. Not in the people. Between them.
“Europe’s competitive disadvantage is not in the work. It is in everything that happens between the work.”
Europe will never win the price war over an hour of labour. It does not need to. What Europe can win — and must win — is the fight over coordination. Know your capacity and you plan tighter. Plan tighter and you ship faster. Ship faster and you win the orders that would otherwise go somewhere else.
The lever is not someone working harder. It is the right machine doing the right thing at the right time. That is arithmetic — and computers do arithmetic better than spreadsheets do.
Every order that runs late because nobody saw the hardening shop was down on Wednesday is European output, lost. Every machine standing idle while overtime is being paid next door is a competitive disadvantage nobody actually decided to accept.
Every European factory plans as well as the best-run one.
Not in ten years. Not after a two-year system rollout. But the moment somebody loads their master data and sees, for the first time, what their shop floor can genuinely do next week.
Productivity is not fate. It is a decision — and until now most companies did not even have the basis on which to make it. A corporate group buys a seven-million-euro scheduling system. A supplier with eighty people gets a spreadsheet. Both manufacture into the same supply chains.
We are building the planning that the supplier with eighty people can afford. Not because it is a pleasant market, but because that is where most of the value is left on the table — and because a supply chain is only as strong as its weakest delivery date.
What it changes inside the company
Dates that hold
Not “we will do our best”, but a number calculated from capacity, material and people.
Orders that flow instead of sitting
Work in progress is tied-up cash. Every day of lead time removed is capital working rather than waiting.
Peak loads nobody chose
Three large consumers in the same quarter-hour cost a demand charge that a plan could have avoided.
Experience that stays in the building
When the foreman retires who alone knew the right sequence through the hardening shop, today that knowledge leaves with him. It does not have to.
Why this is bigger than software
A factory is not just a factory. It is the apprenticeship for the eighteen-year-old who does not want to go to university. It is the reason the town still has a bakery. It is the promise to two hundred families that it will still be there next year.
If that factory stays competitive, all of it stays. If it does not, production moves on — and what remains is an empty hall and a community with no answer to what it lives on.
When the economy does well, people do well.
The starting point
Not an analysis problem. A structural one.
“Most assembly times are correct, but not scalable. When every plant evaluates differently, decisions get harder.”
In assembly-intensive manufacturing, standard times grow out of local rules, historically evolved routings and person-dependent knowledge. Each individual time is properly determined on its own terms — and still you cannot calculate with them the moment you place plants, product families or sites side by side.
The real effort therefore does not sit in determining times, but in everything downstream: quotations based on experience, capacity planning on a blurred baseline, make-or-buy decisions without a comparable foundation. And when experienced colleagues leave the company, the evaluation logic leaves with them.
That is exactly where SynCore starts: a shared, methodologically sound time logic that is set up cleanly once and then times recurring operations automatically — integrated into the ERP landscape you already run.
What we believe
What we stand for
Four principles that shape every product decision in SynCore.
Methodology, not a black box
The constructive portion of standard times builds on the international MTM methodology, and REFA time categories are mapped digitally. Every time value is reproducible and auditable. Ask how a time came about and you get an answer — not a model output you have to take on faith.
Your ERP stays the system of record
SAP, abas, Infor and others remain the leading systems. SynCore complements them with robust time logic instead of replacing them. No system migration, no second source of truth — calculated times flow back into the systems your processes already run on.
Global standards, local parameters
One shared evaluation logic across all plants — while layout, qualification, automation level and workstation organisation stay transparently adjustable. Standardisation must not define away the reality of individual sites.
Your data stays yours
SynCore runs on-premise or in the cloud, with strict tenant separation. You decide where your manufacturing and time data lives. Production data is competitive data — it belongs wherever you want it to be.
Working together
How we work
We do not start with a rollout. We start with a clearly scoped pilot area using your real data. That reduces risk, creates internal buy-in, and produces a reliable basis for your decision.
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Diagnosis
Understand the current logic, assess data quality, define the pilot scope together.
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Pilot
Model a selected product family, assembly or workstation with SynCore — using your data, not a demo dataset.
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Your decision
Evaluate benefit, effort, data quality and governance. You decide on facts, not on a presentation.
The people behind SynCore
SynCore is built by a team of software engineers and industrial consultants — small enough that you speak to the people who actually build the product.
Max Melzer
COO
Responsible for operations, customer projects and running the pilot engagements.
David Strohmaier
CTO
Responsible for product, architecture and the methodological basis of the time logic.
The team behind them
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Developers
Platform, ERP integration and the calculation engine.
5
Consultants
Industrial engineering, REFA and MTM methodology, customer rollout.
10
People in total
Short paths and direct contact — no ticket system between you and the team.
Company
Who is behind SynCore
The formal details — for everyone who needs them.
- Product
- SynCore — time-study software for manufacturing
- Operated by
- rockNdevel GmbH, Vienna, Austria
- Market
- Assembly-intensive manufacturing in the DACH region
- Methodological basis
- MTM methodology, REFA time categories
- Deployment
- On-premise or cloud, multi-tenant
- Contact
- office@syn-core.at
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SynCore is deployed as an on-premise or cloud solution and integrates seamlessly into existing SAP systems and IT infrastructure. Talk to our team about your specific requirements.
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