Kirchner Konstruktionen GmbH

What Kirchner Konstruktionen GmbH does

Kirchner Konstruktionen GmbH is a privately held German engineering services firm founded in 1990 and headquartered in Weingarten, Germany, delivering planning, construction, simulation, offline/online robot programming and commissioning services for production equipment in the automotive industry. The company operates through a multi-brand structure: the core Kirchner Konstruktionen brand covers construction and multi-CAD design across Catia V5, NX, Solidworks and ProE; wholly-owned subsidiary Kirchner Solutions GmbH provides special machine construction and plant engineering; and wholly-owned subsidiary Kirchner Energiedienstleistungen GmbH offers energy consulting and management. Named customers include Daimler, Audi, BMW, Ford and Volkswagen, with engagements structured around each OEM's specific planning and documentation guidelines (e.g., VW/Audi and Daimler workflows using Process Designer, Process Simulate and Delmia Hub).

The firm supports assembly and body-in-white plants, robot joining cells with BestFit and gap-measurement integration, and end-to-end commissioning including PLC hand-off and cycle-time optimization. It holds ISO 9001:2015 certification (since 1998) and TISAX certification (since 2021) at its Weingarten site, the latter a standard prerequisite for handling confidential OEM engineering data. Operations are delivered from five offices - Weingarten (HQ), Sindelfingen, Bremen, Dresden and a branch in Romania - giving it regional proximity to southern, northern and eastern German automotive clusters. Disclosed annual capacity is approximately 360,000 hours distributed across construction/planning (~225,000h), robot simulation/OLP/commissioning (~120,000h), electrical planning, assembly, PLC programming and energy consulting.

Kirchner Konstruktionen is owned and led by co-CEOs Gerhard Schwichtenberg and Markus Elbs, who have run the company since 2003. Revenue is generated almost exclusively through project-based, quote-driven B2B engineering services engagements with automotive OEMs and their Tier 1 suppliers, delivered by company employees at customer sites under direct enterprise sales motions. The company has no disclosed external shareholders, no funding history and no public revenue.

Name

Kirchner Konstruktionen GmbH

Legal name

Kirchner Konstruktionen GmbH

Website

https://kirchner-kon.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1990

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Kirchner Konstruktionen GmbH is a privately held German engineering services firm providing planning, construction, simulation and robot programming for automotive production equipment, serving OEMs such as Daimler, Audi, BMW, Ford and Volkswagen from offices across Germany and Romania.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Weingarten

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Engineering Services: Project-based engineering services including construction, planning, simulation, robot programming, and commissioning for automotive manufacturing equipment. Capacity of approximately 360,000 hours per year distributed across construction/planning (225,000h), robot simulation/OLP/inline commissioning (120,000h), electrical planning (2,000h), assembly (6,500h), PLC programming (2,000h), and energy consulting (4,500h)
2. Energy Consulting Services: Energy audits, energy management systems, production technology and technical building equipment consulting through Kirchner Energiedienstleistungen brand

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Kirchner Konstruktionen GmbH provides engineering services for the automotive industry covering the planning, development, construction, simulation, and commissioning of production equipment and special machines for OEMs and their Tier 1 suppliers. The offering is delivered through four pillars — multi-CAD construction and change management, production planning and documentation per OEM guidelines, robot simulation and offline programming, and online commissioning at customer sites — supplemented by a special-machines subsidiary (Kirchner Solutions) and an energy-consulting subsidiary (Kirchner Energiedienstleistungen).

Product overview

Kirchner Konstruktionen GmbH is an engineering services firm for the automotive industry operating as a unified platform with four distinct service pillars: the core Kirchner Konstruktionen brand offering construction, planning, simulation, and online/offline programming services; Kirchner Solutions GmbH (Sondermaschinenbau) providing special machine construction and plant engineering as a general contractor; and Kirchner Energiedienstleistungen GmbH delivering energy consulting and management services. The company can demonstrate an annual capacity of approximately 360,000 hours across these services. Together, these offerings provide comprehensive support from initial planning through commissioning of production equipment.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Kirchner Solutions: Special machine construction, plant engineering and equipment manufacturing – from concept through construction, assembly, commissioning to documentation and service.
• Kirchner Energiedienstleistungen

Products and services

• Kirchner Konstruktionen Core Engineering Services Integrated engineering services covering planning, development, construction, simulation, and commissioning of production equipment for automotive OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers.
• Konstruktion (Construction) Multi-CAD construction services for automotive and special machine building using Catia V5, NX, Solidworks, and ProE, covering 3D/2D construction, clamping concepts, parts lists, drawing data check, archiving, and change management.
• Planung und Dokumentation (Planning and Documentation) Complete planning of body-in-white and assembly plants per VW/Audi and Daimler guidelines via Process Designer, Process Simulate, and Delmia Hub, with full documentation including sequence plans, pneumatic plans, safety layouts, operating instructions, risk assessments, and CE marking documentation.
• Simulation (Robot and Production Line Simulation) Robot and production-line simulation services using RobCAD, Process Designer, Process Simulate, and V5 Robotics, including cycle-time verification, robot/fixture positioning, accessibility and feasibility studies, tooling and robot selection, and offline robot program (OLP) creation.
• Online/Offline Programmierung (Online/Offline Robot Programming) Robot programming and commissioning services, including initial robot commissioning, bus system commissioning, complete system commissioning, offline robot program loading, PLC communication, cycle-time optimization, and full robot/system documentation.
• Kirchner Solutions (Sondermaschinenbau / Special Machine Construction) Wholly-owned subsidiary offering complete or partial special-machine, plant-engineering, and equipment-construction solutions from concept development through construction, manufacturing, assembly, commissioning, documentation, and service/maintenance, including robot cells, camera and vision applications, assembly automata, and manual tools.
• Kirchner Energiedienstleistungen (Energy Consulting) Wholly-owned subsidiary providing energy consulting services, including energy audits, energy management systems, production technology optimization, and technical building services, with holistic concepts for efficiency improvement and cost reduction across project phases from conception to ongoing operations.

Named customers5 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Mudawane Wapa Yila AssociationminorOthers · 1 January 2017Kirchner supports this association of student Bazie Kienewo yi Bertrand in Burkina Faso under the motto 'Gemeinsam für Wappa'. Successfully completed project in 2017 building a solar-powered water pump.
• Kirchner Solutions GmbHcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSubsidiary brand specializing in special machine construction, plant engineering, and equipment construction. Offers complete or partial solutions from concept development, construction, manufacturing, assembly, commissioning to documentation and service & maintenance. Provides complex automation solutions including robot cells, camera and vision applications, assembly automata, and manual tools.
• Kirchner Energiedienstleistungen GmbHcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSubsidiary brand providing energy consulting services including energy audits, energy management systems, production technology and technical building equipment consulting. Offers holistic concepts for efficiency improvement and cost reduction, accompanying customers through all project phases from conception to ongoing operations.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• FEV Group: German-headquartered engineering services provider for automotive and powertrain development, including production systems consulting. Comparable in OEM relationship profile and engineering services orientation.
• SEGULA Technologies: Global engineering consultancy with strong German automotive presence, covering vehicle development, production engineering and tooling. Comparable in services to OEMs and in multi-CAD/multi-OEM delivery.
• P3 Group: German engineering consultancy serving automotive OEMs and Tier 1s on production, quality and software-defined vehicle topics. Comparable German-centric automotive services footprint.
• EDAG Engineering Group: Germany-based engineering services provider for automotive OEMs, covering vehicle development, production systems, body-in-white and factory planning. Closest like-for-like peer to Kirchner's body-in-white, assembly and robot simulation scope, only at significantly larger scale.
• IAV GmbH: German automotive engineering services firm serving OEMs and Tier 1s on powertrain, electronics, vehicle integration and production engineering. Overlaps with Kirchner on automotive production engineering and OEM-aligned delivery.
• Bertrandt AG: Public German engineering services partner to automotive OEMs and suppliers, with significant presence in production-related development, simulation and validation. Comparable customer base and project-based services model.

Broad incumbents

• Kuka Systems (part of KUKA AG): Robotics and production systems integrator with deep German automotive customer base, often competing for the same body-in-white and assembly engineering scope as Kirchner but with proprietary hardware.
• AKKA Technologies (now Akkodis): Large European engineering and digital services group serving automotive OEMs with production engineering, embedded systems and software. Overlaps with Kirchner on automotive production engineering but at much greater breadth and scale.
• Capgemini Engineering (formerly Altran): Global engineering services arm of Capgemini, with significant automotive practice in production engineering, embedded systems and digital twin/simulation. Adjacent to Kirchner in simulation-led automotive engineering delivery.

Regional players

• H&D Engineering Group: Mid-sized German engineering services firm focused on automotive production planning, body-in-white and assembly. Closest scale and scope analog to Kirchner in the German SMB segment.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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