On January 29, 2026, we accepted the invitation of our member company Venti Oelde and gained a very interesting insight into an application that takes digital store floor management to a new level by integrating AI.
The result in advance: most of the participants were “flashed” by the possibilities that AI offers for store floor management and want to test the solution presented by the start-up Arctory.
At the beginning of our meeting, Lukas Stoppa, Technical Manager at Ventilatorenfabrik Oelde GmbH, welcomed our group and briefly introduced his company. Air is Venti Oelde’s medium. Air plays the main role in research and development, planning and consulting as well as production and service. The complex systems and individual components of the quality leader in ventilation technology, which are in demand worldwide, are used to extract, convey or separate air, vapors and gases as well as dusts and light materials.
Andreas Schütz, Production Manager at Venti Oelde, then gave us a tour of the production facility and we were given a good insight into the dimensions in which Venti Oelde manufactures.
We also got to know Arctory’s store floor management solution, which is used here, live and on site.
There is a large screen at various stations in production that shows the digital store floor management board and visualizes certain key figures for short daily meetings between the respective managers.
Clear and customizable SQDCIP boards, PDCA tickets, attendance lists and workload overviews, automatic escalations, analytics dashboards and a knowledge database make the individual processes visible and the development status traceable.
Particularly convenient: the board can be added to and modified without programming knowledge and in simple language.
Johannes Mohren and Eden Chabanet from Arctory introduced us to the underlying solution in a short workshop session.
The start-up’s ambition to develop applications for human-centered Industry 5.0 that turn the workforce into active users and designers without in-depth digital expertise was successfully fulfilled in the implementation of the AI-supported SFM solution.
Certain requirements can be entered as a text/prompt and the system implements the task or suggests alternatives or best practice options. Just one small example: the request to install an automatic stopwatch so as not to exceed the regular meeting time was fulfilled within seconds.
At the end of the afternoon, everyone was delighted with the offer to test the Arctory solution to try out the implementation of their own requirements.
Many thanks to Lukas Stoppa and Andreas Schütz from Venti Oelde for the opportunity to get to know the company and the use of innovative SFM solutions on site, and to Johannes Mohren and Eden Chabanet from Arctory for the convincing and sympathetic presentation of an AI-supported application that certainly supports many employees in their daily tasks in a meaningful and efficient way.
