EQUIcon Software GmbH Jena

EQUIcon Software GmbH Jena is a German software development company based in Jena, Thuringia. According to its own website, its working field is the development of software for technical applications, frequently involving control systems for complex processes and high-technology machines. The company presents itself as an engineering-oriented software house that combines long-standing experience in large software projects with broad competence in modern software technologies, and it markets its services under the slogan 'Erfolg ist programmierbar!' ('Success is programmable!'). EQUIcon's offering is organised around several specialised domains. The first is device control: the company states that it has many years of experience controlling high-tech devices ranging from knitting machines and robots to electron-beam writers. The second is mask data preparation, served by its ePLACE product family, which is aimed at the semiconductor and photomask workflow. The third is laboratory automation, where EQUIcon develops custom software for laboratory devices and installations, including SiLA-compliant scheduling software (niceLAB) and SiLA-compliant device drivers. The fourth is transport and logistics, where it provides both custom and standardised software for freight forwarders, logistics companies and transport service providers, including the logistics and forwarding product EQ-Sped.cargo for order optimisation and the network software EQ-Sped.net for cooperation between freight forwarders. Rather than being a mass-market software publisher, EQUIcon positions itself as a project-driven development partner for industrial and scientific customers. Its portfolio mixes bespoke development with named standard products (ePLACE, niceLAB, EQ-Sped.cargo, EQ-Sped.net), which suggests a business model built on long-term customer relationships in technically demanding niches. The company highlights 'outstanding references' as part of its credentials, indicating that its reputation rests on completed projects for external clients. The company is headquartered in Jena, Germany, and its primary market is the German-speaking industrial and scientific sector. It is a privately held company; no parent group, stock listing or ticker is indicated by the available evidence. Public structured data describes it simply as a company in Jena, Germany. Its website is the main public window into its activities, presenting its four competence areas and inviting prospective customers to learn more about each.

EQUIcon Software GmbH Jena is a German software development company located in Jena, Thuringia. Public structured data describes it simply as a company in Jena, Germany, and its own website presents it as a developer of software for technical applications. The available evidence does not record a founding date, founders or ownership structure, so the company's early history cannot be reconstructed from these sources. What the company itself emphasises is its accumulated project experience. On its homepage it states that its working field is the development of software for technical applications, and that this often concerns control systems for complex processes and machines in high technology. It says it has carried out many successful projects in this area, has projects currently in progress, and has gathered long-standing experience. Combined with its competences in modern software technology, the company presents this experience as the basis for successfully mastering each new customer task, summarised in its slogan 'Erfolg ist programmierbar!' ('Success is programmable!'). Over time EQUIcon has built a portfolio organised into four competence areas, each with its own product or service identity. In device control, it cites long-standing experience in controlling high-tech devices, explicitly naming knitting machines, robots and electron-beam writers as examples. In mask data preparation, it offers the ePLACE software, aimed at the photomask and semiconductor data workflow. In laboratory automation, it develops individual software for laboratory devices and installations, including SiLA-compliant scheduling software under the name niceLAB and SiLA-compliant device drivers. In transport and logistics, it serves freight forwarders, logistics companies and transport service providers with both individual and standardised software solutions, including the logistics and forwarding software EQ-Sped.cargo for order optimisation and the network software EQ-Sped.net for cooperation between freight forwarders. This structure indicates a company that has grown by applying software engineering to several distinct technical niches rather than by pursuing a single mass-market product. The mix of bespoke development and named standard products suggests that recurring customer needs in these niches were gradually productised. The company also advertises 'outstanding references', implying a client base of industrial and scientific organisations whose projects serve as proof of capability. EQUIcon remains headquartered in Jena, Germany, and its primary market is the German-speaking industrial and scientific sector. It is privately held, with no parent company, stock listing or ticker indicated in the available evidence. Its website, equicon.de, is the principal public source for its activities, presenting the four competence areas and inviting visitors to learn more about each.

Engineering-driven software house providing custom and standardised software for device control, laboratory automation, mask data preparation and logistics, with a focus on technically demanding industrial and scientific projects.

• ePLACE

  Mask data preparation software for the photomask and semiconductor data workflow.

• niceLAB

  SiLA-compliant scheduling software for laboratory automation.

• EQ-Sped.cargo

  Logistics and forwarding software for order optimisation.

• EQ-Sped.net

  Network software for cooperation between freight forwarders.

• SiLA-compliant device drivers

  Device drivers for laboratory equipment built to the SiLA standard.

1. 1EQUIcon official website – Homeequicon.de
2. 2Wikidata – EQUIcon (Germany)wikidata.org