Safety Inspections Go Cloud: Graubner Opens Pilot Programme to Ten Industrial Firms
Published on 09/10/2026 at 10:01 | Editorial boerse-global.de
Industrial firms that still track tool and machinery inspections on paper or in scattered spreadsheets are being offered a route onto a central cloud platform. Graubner Industrie-Beratung GmbH has begun recruiting ten companies to serve as practical partners for PrüfExpress, its software-as-a-service tool built specifically for the digital inspection of work equipment.
Applications are open with immediate effect, according to information dated 10.09.2026. Participating businesses will run the application inside their own operations, giving the vendor real-world feedback from a range of industrial settings.
What the software does
PrüfExpress is designed to handle a job that safety officers and maintenance crews know well: documenting the recurring checks carried out on tools, machines and other operating equipment in a legally watertight way, while automating the management of inspection deadlines. Systems of this kind aim to cut the error rate and the hours lost to manual record-keeping, and to make audits easier to withstand.
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For the companies selected, the pilot represents a shift away from analogue logs or isolated digital lists toward one shared, cloud-based platform.
Nearly two decades of prior use
The product may be new to the open market, but its codebase is not. PrüfExpress draws on close to 20 years of practical deployment, tracing its origins to 2006, when it was written as an in-house system for an automotive group. That pedigree suggests the software was shaped by the demands of a large organisation with complex inspection cycles and strict safety requirements.
Its repositioning as a SaaS offering for a wider customer base reflects a broader pattern in industrial consulting, where proven internal tools are modernised and turned into standalone products aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises.
The company behind it
Graubner Industrie-Beratung GmbH was founded in 1995 and has been advising industrial businesses since the mid-1990s. By packaging a digital solution for work-equipment inspection, the consultancy is taking aim at a persistent weak spot in occupational safety and compliance: manual capture of inspection results, which remains both time-consuming and prone to mistakes.
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Digital tools are intended to strengthen revision security — the ability to prove to auditors that checks were performed — and to ease the administrative burden on safety officers and maintenance staff. Selecting the ten pilot partners marks a significant stage in the system's wider market launch, as the vendor works to validate its specifications further.
