Where industrial intelligence begins
About
Software and AI are rapidly changing the way factories produce and operate. Ethon’s Industrial AI Platform helps manufacturers across discrete and process industries to navigate this transition, and produce more with less.
Our mission
Ethon’s mission is to eliminate the trillion-dollar waste problem in manufacturing with technology that makes factories run more effectively and efficiently. By enabling a step-change in productivity, we aim to strengthen entire industries and the economies they support.
Manufacturing powers a major share of the global economy, influencing everything from electronics to food. With such scale, even small efficiency gains deliver massive economic and environmental impact worldwide.
Factories bleed value through scrap, downtime, and process variation. Even with automation in place, the real drivers stay hidden, allowing losses to repeat day after day. Without understanding cause and effect, productivity never compounds.
Most factory data is captured but never used; buried in silos, logs, or outdated systems. These unused insights could drive smarter decisions, but traditional tools fall short. AI can finally unlock what factories have always known, but couldn’t see.
A truly global company
Based in Zurich and New York City, we serve factories across the globe.
Company Management
Striving towards operational excellence
Funding
Backed by leading investors
Proof over promise. See what we’ve delivered.
Establishing a global standard for optimizing and controlling chocolate production lines. Saved millions of chocolate truffles through data-driven setpoint recommendations.
Powering visual inspection workflows across 20 factories. Delivered $10M+ in savings by replacing legacy quality systems and supporting a zero customer-complaint target.
Stabilizing processed food production with data-driven centerlining and setpoint recommendations. Delivered ~$100k in cost savings per line per year by reducing material usage.
Enabling cross-factory root cause analysis. Awarded with the 2024 Open Bosch Award for significant reductions in CO₂ emissions, scrap, and rework.
Identified critical quality drivers across 3,000+ transistor manufacturing process parameters, resulting in a 51% scrap reduction. Delivered $1M+ in increased sales.
Supporting complex assembly operations amid labor shortages. Enabling (junior) engineers to deliver reliable root cause analysis across hundreds of process parameters.
Increasing first-time-right in chemical production through data-driven centerlining. Reduced manual batch rework by 72%, lowering unit costs and improving productivity.
