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From family-owned workshops to multi-plant groups — factories across 11+ industries run their daily production on Meta Smart Factory.

Some of the Large and Mid-Sized Companies We Work With

Multi-plant industrial groups and established mid-sized manufacturers across Europe, the Middle East and North America run their production on Meta Smart Factory — several of them having chosen MSF as the single standard for the entire group rather than plant by plant.

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Global group rollout

NORMA Group — one platform across a worldwide plant network

NORMA Group, a global leader in engineered joining technology, is standardising on Meta Smart Factory across its international manufacturing network, with a rollout scoped to 17 plants. Projects are already underway at sites in the United States, the United Kingdom, Serbia, France and Germany.

What makes this programme significant is the decision behind it. Rather than letting each plant choose its own local system and reconciling the numbers in spreadsheets afterwards, NORMA Group selected one platform for the whole group. Every site — whatever its country, language or machine park — reports into the same system, against the same definitions.

The result is a genuinely managed manufacturing network rather than a collection of separately digitalised factories: group management sees production, OEE, quality and delivery performance from every plant in one place and in real time. A plant manager in Serbia and a director in Germany open the same figure, calculated the same way, updated the same minute — and MSF speaks each site's own language while doing it.

Single-point visibility across countries, time zones and ERP landscapes is precisely what Meta Smart Factory was built to deliver.

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International groups — automotive, energy and hydrogen

Tier-1 automotive suppliers and energy manufacturers in Germany, France, Spain and the United States, where multi-plant traceability and one shared production standard matter most — from oilfield equipment to electrodes for green hydrogen.

Saudi Arabia — food, energy, industry and flow control

Saudi industrial, food and energy groups running Meta Smart Factory across their production networks — 24 plants between Savola, BRC, MC4 and AVK alone, with MES, KPI reporting and computer-vision quality control.

Serbia — one of MSF's strongest manufacturing clusters

From defence and industrial manufacturing to metal casting, dairy, agriculture, animal nutrition and consumer goods: a dense cluster of Serbian manufacturers running Meta Smart Factory, several of them as a group-wide standard across multiple plants.

Türkiye — food, poultry, packaging and plastics

High-volume, high-traceability production where batch genealogy, shelf life and line speed decide the margin.

Central Europe — food, pharmaceuticals, vehicles and metal

Regulated, quality-critical production in Slovenia and Hungary, close to Meta Smart Factory's headquarters — including Perutnina Ptuj, standardised across 15 plants in 7 countries.

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Industries We Serve — Real Deployments

🪟 Glass Industry — Steklarna Hrastnik 1860Slovenia's historic glass factory: MSF deployment as part of the CEDIT.SI project consortium — advanced planning and labor scheduling for productivity improvement.
🚗 Automotive IndustryComplex production lines controlled from raw material acceptance to finished automobiles.
🔩 Metalworking IndustryData collection via I/O card, PLC and full ERP integration; maximum machine capacity utilization.
🛢️ Oil & Gas IndustryProduction management automation for process-driven operations.
⚗️ Chemical IndustryContinuous process monitoring and automation.
🏭 Steel Die CastingAutomobile parts production with enhanced material traceability.
❄️ HVAC IndustryAir conditioner manufacturing digitalization.
💾 Flexible Printed Circuits (PCB)Production bottleneck management for high-mix electronics.
📦 Packaging IndustryAutomation and supply chain process digitalization.
🍞 Food Industry"MSF gives the ways to improve productivity in terms of maintaining safety, using sustainable packaging."
☀️ Solar Panel IndustryReal-time machine data processing at production speed.
🍳 Kitchen Equipment IndustryManufacturing operations analytics and digitalization.
11+Industries
20+Countries via partners
10+Years experience
60%+Annual growth

What Our Customers Say

"Before MSF we planned in Excel and lived in firefighting mode. Now the schedule updates itself and our on-time delivery went from 78% to 96% in six months."

— Operations Director, automotive parts supplier, Slovenia

"The PoC convinced our CFO before we spent serious money. They proved the ROI on our own data — that's why we chose Meta Smart Factory over the big names."

— Managing Director, injection moulding company, Germany

"We found 18% hidden capacity on our bottleneck line in the first three months. We were about to order a new machine we didn't need."

— Plant Manager, machinery manufacturer, Turkey

"Full lot traceability used to take us two days per customer audit. Now it's two clicks. Our retail customers noticed."

— Quality Manager, food producer, Spain

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