DIEFFENBACHER wins NEO2025 Innovation Award

Every year, the Karlsruhe TechnologyRegion honors promising future-oriented innovations with its NEO Innovation Award. At the NEO2025 award ceremony on Friday, November 21, at the Vollack Group in Karlsruhe, the focus was on artificial intelligence. Among the five nominees, DIEFFENBACHER prevailed with its intelligent digitalization platform EVORIS and won the prize of 20,000 euros.

“I am delighted and proud that we were recognized among such high-quality competition,” said Jürgen Woll, Vice President Automation at DIEFFENBACHER. “I am particularly proud of our EVORIS team, which works hard every day to further develop EVORIS to help our customers benefit from the latest advances in AI that can keep them ahead of their competition,” he continued.

The NEO jury of renowned figures from science, business and politics initially selected five finalists from the 36 entries for the innovation award, with EVORIS ultimately emerging as the winner. The jury was impressed by DIEFFENBACHER’s global success with an AI-supported innovation. In challenging economic times, this success signals the future viability of mechanical and plant engineering, the jury said.

EVORIS is a modular software platform for manufacturer-independent, AI-based digitalization of machines and complete production plants. Using EVORIS, companies in the wood-based panels and forming industries gain deep insights into their production processes. These insights help them make even better decisions about their plants. EVORIS enables the networking of data, processes and users and offers analyses for anomaly detection, energy and maintenance management, carbon footprint calculation and other critical plant functions.