FORGE + Change Consulting
More output with the same team.
Cost efficiency, compliance readiness and AI adoption for manufacturing SMEs in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and across Europe. Change Consulting finds the bottleneck, FORGE delivers the fix with our own software.
- 20+years of consulting
- 30+years of experience
- 70 to 300+engineers led
- On premiseAI on your own servers if you like
Where you stand
Three structural problems every SME knows but can't seem to solve.
Inefficient processes bleed time and money
R&D too slow, quoting too slow, quality management reactive. Knowledge is locked in people's heads instead of systems.
Compliance is a cost centre
ISO, ASPICE, MDR, EU AI Act, supply chain due diligence: manuals and evidence often only come together just before the audit, at great effort, sometimes not at all. Hardly anyone uses them to improve.
AI potential is real, but untapped
Everyone feels the pressure to do something with AI and fears data loss, wasted spend and complexity. Most AI pilots deliver nothing.
This can be solved, with the right expertise and the right tools.
One partner, three strengths
Diagnosis, delivery and compliance from one partner.
We don't write reports and disappear. We stay until it works.
Consulting
R&D transformation, technical due diligence, interim management
Senior experience from corporates and SMEs. We find the bottleneck in engineering, product management and organisation and fix it together with your team.
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Software and delivery
AI tools, product configurator, ERP and IT by FORGE
Our own AI tools for product configuration and quoting, documents, effort estimation and quality. If you like, the AI runs fully on premise and your data never leaves the building.
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ComplAInow
AI-assisted compliance
Audit-ready in days, not months, whatever the standard: ISO 9001, ISO 13485, ISO 26262, ASPICE, the EU AI Act and many more.
Learn moreHow we work
From first conversation to measurable results.
Intro call
90 minutes, free of charge
We understand your situation and your biggest bottleneck.
Quick check
5 days
Rapid diagnosis: what is holding you back, and where is the biggest lever?
Solution design
tailored to your case
We design the right combination of consulting and tools for your specific case.
Go live
measure results
Tools go live, your team is trained, results are tracked. We stay available.
Results
What structured transformation actually looks like.
Machinery and plant engineering, food processing equipment, 500 employees
EBITDA margin after three years, having fallen from 10 to 2 percent
Read the case study- −50%R&D costs
- −95%field defects within six months
- ×2.5company value
- −70%staff turnover
Tools that actually work in an SME.
Our own AI tools on a monthly plan, with no long lock-in and, if you wish, entirely on your premises.
FORGE CPQ
AI configurator and quoting
No more slow or wrong quotes.
ComplAInow
AI for compliance and audits
Audit-ready in days, not months.
Document Intelligence
AI document pipeline
Document chaos becomes structured knowledge.
PLANOVA
Engineering effort estimator
Quote projects in minutes.
FORGE Insights
AI ops and quality intelligence
Find the root cause before it's a crisis.
Odoo ERP by FORGE
Open source ERP for SMEs
Modern ERP without enterprise pricing.
FORGE IT-Services
Web, Microsoft 365, IT management
Professional IT without an in-house team.
Local AI
AI on your own premises
Privacy without compromise.
Local AI option · Data never leaves your premises · GDPR-compliant
Who is behind it
Led by a practitioner.
Dr.-Ing. Christian Doisl
Founder, Change Consulting and FORGE
- PhD in mechanical engineering, degree in electrical engineering, TU Munich
- Subject matter expert at Deloitte Consulting: R&D transformation for Bosch, VW/CARIAD, Continental and Evident
- Head of R&D and product management at a mid-sized machinery manufacturer
- Over 20 years of consulting, over 30 years of experience, led teams of 70 to 300+ in Germany, Japan, the US, Poland and India
Everything we build and advise on, we have done ourselves, in companies like yours and under your constraints.
Industries
We know your industry from the inside.
We have developed, led and restructured in these industries ourselves, in SMEs and corporates alike. That is why we speak the language of your engineering and your shop floor.
- Machinery and plant engineeringQuotes, variants, documentation, service: AI use cases with the numbers worked out, and lean engineering governance.
- AutomotiveOEMs and suppliers: processes, methods and tools, shorter development times, quality and programme governance across sites.
- Medical technologyDevelopment under ISO 13485 and MDR, cross-site governance and documentation that survives an audit.
- Production technologyProduction, maintenance and quality: find root causes faster, secure knowledge, automate workflows.
Use-Case-Bibliothek
30 AI automations in manufacturing
- Operating manual from CAD and BOM2.4 months
- Structure 8D reports4.8 months
- Identify spare parts5.6 months
Payback per use case, as calculated in the library
Open the use case libraryInsights
What we learn in projects, written down.
Free guides
Two guides from practice.
For R&D and project leaders: what really makes agile projects faster and how to estimate engineering effort realistically. Both arrive by email, in German.
5 levers for successful agile projects
5 insider tips for realistic engineering effort estimation
Free of charge, no newsletter
Let's talk about your biggest bottleneck.
In the intro call we get to know your situation and tell you openly whether and how we can help. 90 minutes, free of charge.
