Tri-Engineering

What Tri-Engineering does

Tri-Engineering, legally registered as Staudt Kelles Freyes Ingenieurgesellschaft Partnerschaft (Amtsgericht Stuttgart, PR 720075), is a Schwieberdingen-headquartered German engineering and consulting partnership founded in 2007. The firm is led by three managing partners — Jens Staudt, Muharrem Kelles, and Jörg Freyes — and operates with a headcount in the 1-10 range, with a branch office in Sindelfingen serving the broader Stuttgart automotive corridor. There is no evidence of external shareholders, institutional investment, or a parent company; the entity is structured as a Partnerschaft, a German partnership form, and trades under the DBAs "TRIEngineering" and "TRi Engineering."

The company's offering is organized into three core competency areas: (1) Projektmanagement (project management), coordinating quality, cost, and schedule targets across project lifecycles; (2) Layout- und Fabrikplanung (layout and factory planning), including CAD-based production area and equipment planning aimed at throughput and inventory optimization; and (3) PLM Entwicklungs-management (PLM development management), subdivided into organisational consulting (process conception, change management, business case calculation) and system consulting (IT mapping, data flow analysis, software requirements, custom software development, and maintenance). All services are people-delivered rather than software-product-delivered, and the firm explicitly avoids "ready-made concepts," positioning its differentiator as the experience of its embedded consultants.

The business model is project-based professional services: the firm either takes on full project execution or integrates its consultants into client-side projects, with revenue generated on a quote-based, negotiated basis per engagement. The customer segment is narrowly vertical — automotive OEMs and automotive suppliers — for whom Tri-Engineering addresses fragmented processes, information silos, and uncoordinated workflows in product development and manufacturing. The firm amplifies its limited in-house capacity through a network of seven cooperation partners (byteAgenten, InMediasP, EMS, ATH, exentra, Kahles Engineering, and Jürgen Rabe Bautechnisches Planungsbüro). No pricing, revenue, customer count, or financial metrics are publicly disclosed.

Name

Tri-Engineering

Legal name

Staudt Kelles Freyes Ingenieurgesellschaft Partnerschaft

Website

https://tri-engineering.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Tri-Engineering is a German engineering and consulting partnership (Staudt Kelles Freyes Ingenieurgesellschaft Partnerschaft) founded in 2007, delivering PLM, project management, and factory-planning consulting primarily to automotive OEMs and suppliers in the Stuttgart region.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Engineering Consulting Services

NAICS

Engineering Services (54133), Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services (5413)

SIC

Services-Engineering Services (8711)

akta.pro primary industry

Industrial & Process Engineering Consulting (BPAHAIAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Systems Engineering & Technical Program Management (BPAHAIAI), Product Design & Mechanical Engineering Consulting (BPAHAIAJ)

Keywords

• Engineering consulting services
• Product lifecycle management
• Project management consulting
• Factory layout planning
• Automotive industry consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

Schwieberdingen

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Engineering and Consulting Services: The company generates revenue through engineering and consulting services. Depending on customer needs, they either take on complete project execution or support customers within their existing projects by integrating their competent employees.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Core offering

Tri-Engineering is an engineering and consulting firm that delivers professional services across Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), project management, and layout/factory planning. Depending on customer needs, the firm either takes over complete project execution or integrates its qualified engineers into existing customer projects, primarily serving the automotive and automotive supplier industries.

Product overview

Tri-Engineering is an engineering and consulting services company offering a unified portfolio of professional services across three core competency areas: PLM (Product Lifecycle Management), Project Management, and Layout/Factory Planning. The company provides consulting services (not a software product) delivered through its team of qualified consultants. The main service offerings include Projektmanagement, Layout- und Fabrikplanung, and PLM Entwicklungs-management (which encompasses organizational consulting and system consulting sub-services). The company serves primarily the automotive and automotive supplier industry, providing support from initial idea through implementation.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• byteAgenten gmbHminorOthersCooperation partner listed on TRI-Engineering's portfolio page. Nature of partnership not specified in detail.
• InMediasP GmbHminorOthersCooperation partner listed on TRI-Engineering's portfolio page. Nature of partnership not specified in detail.
• EMS Engineering Management Service GmbHminorOthersCooperation partner listed on TRI-Engineering's portfolio page. Nature of partnership not specified in detail.
• ATH Projekt Management & Consulting Ltd.minorOthersCooperation partner listed on TRI-Engineering's portfolio page. Nature of partnership not specified in detail.
• exentra GmbHminorOthersCooperation partner listed on TRI-Engineering's portfolio page. Nature of partnership not specified in detail.
• Kahles Engineering cad service & consultingminorOthersCooperation partner listed on TRI-Engineering's portfolio page. Nature of partnership not specified in detail.
• Jürgen Rabe Bautechnisches PlanungsbürominorOthersCooperation partner listed on TRI-Engineering's portfolio page. Nature of partnership not specified in detail.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights8 records

Broad incumbents

• PRODYNA SE: Established German IT consulting firm delivering PLM, CAD and engineering software services to industrial customers; larger-scale incumbent with overlapping offerings in PLM consulting and system integration.
• CENIT AG: Publicly listed German PLM and 3D software/services provider with deep automotive exposure; a broader incumbent offering enterprise PLM implementation, consulting and software that competes with Tri-Engineering's PLM/system consulting line.
• Capgemini Engineering (formerly Altran): Global engineering services arm of Capgemini providing PLM, manufacturing engineering and project management to automotive OEMs and suppliers; a broader incumbent competing for the same automotive digital transformation mandates.
• Detecon International GmbH: German-origin management and technology consultancy with automotive and industrial digital transformation practices; broader incumbent competing for engineering consulting mandates across PLM and factory planning.
• msg Plaut (msg group): Major German technology and consulting group with significant automotive and industrial engineering practices; a broad incumbent whose PLM, project management and factory consulting overlap with Tri-Engineering's portfolio.

Direct peers

• exentra GmbH: German engineering services firm offering PLM, CAD and project management consulting to industrial customers; a direct competitor and listed cooperation partner of Tri-Engineering with overlapping service scope in factory planning and PLM.
• byteAgenten gmbh: German technology and consulting firm listed as a Tri-Engineering cooperation partner with adjacent IT/PLM capabilities serving industrial clients.
• InMediasP GmbH: German PLM and IT consulting firm specializing in product lifecycle management and engineering IT for mid-market manufacturers, directly comparable to Tri-Engineering's PLM/system consulting offerings and listed as one of Tri-Engineering's cooperation partners.
• ATH Projekt Management & Consulting Ltd. Germany-based project management and consulting firm listed as a Tri-Engineering cooperation partner, directly competing in the engineering PM consulting segment for industrial clients.
• EMS Engineering Management Service GmbH: German engineering management services firm listed as a Tri-Engineering cooperation partner, with overlapping project management and engineering consulting capabilities for industrial clients.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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