Production line in a regulated plant
About us

We make critical production safe and production-ready.

We treat production IT, commissioning, qualification and special hardware as one continuous system — across the full plant lifecycle, for pharmaceutical and food plants in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Why we exist

We know where critical production breaks down — and we solve it as one discipline.

In pharmaceutical and food plants, quality is decided during commissioning, during qualification and in day-to-day operation. Our project experience shows that the critical points are the handovers between design, construction and operations — where responsibility and evidence can go missing.

That is why this network exists. Engineering and commissioning are not a single service that stops at the next interface; they are one continuous responsibility across the whole lifecycle. And because critical production only becomes safe when plant, software and hardware are thought through together, we cover all three ourselves — not just one of them.

Out of that grew four fields that interlock — production IT and automation, commissioning, qualification and special hardware. Together they cover all eight project phases of a production plant, from first project definition through to routine operation. Carried by a network of more than 50 specialists, with an engineering base near Munich and project teams across Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

50+
specialists in the network
4
fields, one lifecycle
30
projects a year
25+
years of experience
The network

Four fields. One continuous lifecycle.

Each field covers a stretch of the plant's life — and they overlap on purpose. That is what creates one unbroken chain of responsibility instead of a series of handovers.

Production IT & Automation
Phase 0108
Commissioning & Start-up
Phase 0408
Qualification & Documentation
Phase 0307
Special Hardware, LOTO & Freeze
Phase 0108
Project definitionOperation
Philosophy

What guides us.

01

Responsibility instead of handovers

One network carries the plant through its critical phase — with clear responsibility across every trade, instead of passing it on at the next interface.

02

Engineering before process theatre

Deep technical work on real plant rather than endless status meetings. What counts is whether the plant runs.

03

Lifecycle thinking

We build systems that produce for years. Evidence and availability grow with the project, not retrospectively at the end.

04

Regulation taken seriously

GMP, hygiene and data integrity are not a tick-box exercise but a way of working — calm, precise, reproducible.

What we stand for.

Quality

A plant counts as finished when the evidence is complete — not when the date has been met.

Responsibility

Whoever tests, decides and documents is the same person. Responsibility is not passed along.

Innovation

Our own hardware and our own project tools wherever off-the-shelf solutions do not hold up in regulated production.

Sustainability

Upgrading existing plant instead of replacing it. Energy and utility consumption belong in the design, not in an appendix.

Precision

Reproducible and documented without gaps — still traceable in an audit years later.

Reliability

We say early what will not work. An honest assessment is worth more than a promised chain of dates.

Management

Your point of contact.

Olaf Gasch, Gründer & Geschäftsführer
Olaf Gasch
Gründer & Geschäftsführer

Über 30 Jahre Erfahrung in Automatisierungstechnik und der Inbetriebnahme von Produktionsanlagen — von der Steuerungsebene über die Prozessleittechnik bis zur qualifizierten Übergabe an die Produktion. Verantwortet die technische Realisierung komplexer Anlagen in Pharma- und Lebensmittelumgebungen und ist für Kunden der erste Ansprechpartner, wenn es um Machbarkeit, Vorgehen und Risiko geht.

AutomatisierungstechnikInbetriebnahmeQualifizierungProjektsteuerung
kontakt@group-ecc.com
Standards & compliance

What we are measured against.

We are certified to ISO 9001. To the other seven frameworks we work and document — the same eight that are listed on the home page.

01

EU GMP Annex 1

Sterile manufacturing and cleanroom requirements.

02

EU GMP Annex 11

Computerised systems in GMP production.

03

21 CFR Part 11

Electronic records and signatures (FDA).

04

ALCOA+

Data integrity across the whole lifecycle.

05

GAMP 5 / CSV

Risk-based computerised system validation.

06

HACCP

Hazard analysis and hygienic design in food production.

07

IFS

Food safety standard for manufacturing.

08

ISO 9001

Our quality management system is certified to ISO 9001.

The systems we work on.

Control systems
  • Siemens PCS 7
  • DeltaV
  • Siemens SISTAR
SCADA & HMI
  • WinCC
  • WinCC Unified
  • WinCC flexible
  • TIA Portal
  • iFIX
  • InTouch
PLC
  • SIMATIC S7
  • SIMATIC S5
  • SIMATIC S7-1500
  • Honeywell
  • B&R
Data & interfaces
  • MES
  • Historian
  • OPC UA
  • MQTT
  • MTP

Talk to our engineers.

Pharmaceutical or food, new build or existing plant — you get a sound technical assessment, not a sales pitch.

Get in touch

We make critical production safe and production-ready.