How many apps did Venti Oelde build, and how quickly?

Ten shopfloor apps in three months. These are apps that would otherwise have queued behind IT one roadmap slot at a time. Instead the team shipped ten working tools in a single quarter and put them into production.

Did Venti Oelde need developers or IT to build their apps?

No. The Venti team builds and changes its own shopfloor apps in Arctory without internal IT or outside developers. They describe the change they want in plain language and adapt the app themselves, so nothing waits in a development queue.

Does Arctory replace the ERP system, or work alongside it?

Alongside it, not instead of it. As Venti's Head of Technology Lukas Stoppa puts it, "the future of digitalisation in manufacturing is the ERP system and Arctory." The ERP stays the single source of truth, and Arctory runs the shopfloor apps next to it.

What does Venti Oelde make, and why is that relevant to my plant?

Venti Oelde is a German Mittelstand manufacturer of industrial fans and process-air systems. If you run a mid-sized industrial operation, it is a company shaped like yours already running Arctory in production, which is the proof colleagues usually ask for before they believe self-built shopfloor apps work in practice.

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How Venti Oelde digitised the shopfloor with Arctory

Name: How Venti Oelde digitised the shopfloor with Arctory
Uploaded: 2026-05-28
Duration: 15 s
Description: Ventilatorenfabrik Oelde runs its shopfloor management on Arctory in production: ten apps its own team built in three months. Head of Technology Lukas Stoppa walks through what changed once the floor could build and adapt its own apps instead of waiting on IT.

Ventilatorenfabrik Oelde runs its shopfloor management on Arctory in production: ten apps its own team built in three months. Head of Technology Lukas Stoppa walks through what changed once the floor could build and adapt its own apps instead of waiting on IT.

Use case: A German Mittelstand manufacturer running Arctory on the shopfloor in production today.

Published: 2026-05-28

How Venti Oelde digitised the shopfloor with Arctory. Ventilatorenfabrik Oelde runs its shopfloor management on Arctory in production: ten apps its own team built in three months. Head of Technology Lukas Stoppa walks through what changed once the floor could build and adapt its own apps instead of waiting on IT.

What this is

Venti builds industrial fans and process-air systems. Their shopfloor management runs on Arctory in production, and the team builds and changes the apps itself. Ten of them in three months, apps that would otherwise have queued behind IT.

How it works

What you see in the video

A customer story with the Venti Oelde team. What changed on the floor once they could build and adapt their own shopfloor apps, and where Arctory sits next to the ERP, in Lukas Stoppa's own words.

Frequently asked questions

Is any real manufacturer using Arctory in production today?: Yes. Ventilatorenfabrik Oelde (Venti), a German Mittelstand maker of industrial fans and process-air systems, has run its shopfloor management on Arctory in production since early 2026. Their team uses self-built Arctory apps on the floor every day. This is not a pilot or a proof of concept.
How many apps did Venti Oelde build, and how quickly?: Ten shopfloor apps in three months. These are apps that would otherwise have queued behind IT one roadmap slot at a time. Instead the team shipped ten working tools in a single quarter and put them into production.
Did Venti Oelde need developers or IT to build their apps?: No. The Venti team builds and changes its own shopfloor apps in Arctory without internal IT or outside developers. They describe the change they want in plain language and adapt the app themselves, so nothing waits in a development queue.
Does Arctory replace the ERP system, or work alongside it?: Alongside it, not instead of it. As Venti's Head of Technology Lukas Stoppa puts it, "the future of digitalisation in manufacturing is the ERP system and Arctory." The ERP stays the single source of truth, and Arctory runs the shopfloor apps next to it.
What does Venti Oelde make, and why is that relevant to my plant?: Venti Oelde is a German Mittelstand manufacturer of industrial fans and process-air systems. If you run a mid-sized industrial operation, it is a company shaped like yours already running Arctory in production, which is the proof colleagues usually ask for before they believe self-built shopfloor apps work in practice.

Tags: Customer story, Shopfloor management, Mittelstand, Venti Oelde

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