Team
The automation and software engineers behind Zeugwerk - Wattens, Tyrol - still writing framework code and still on the machine floor when it counts.
Zeugwerk GmbH was founded in 2021 by automation engineers who had spent years building industrial machinery software. The same problems kept appearing: no shared structure, no reusable building blocks, no path to automated testing. We built the framework we needed, then the tools around it - and we help other teams move faster with that stack today. The team is based in Wattens, Tyrol, Austria.
Matthias Pfurtscheller
Co-Founder & CEO
Matthias has been involved in automation software development for special-purpose machines for many years, most of them at Swarovski - where he rose from software engineer to Head of Control Software. His focus has shifted to building redundant, dynamic development teams with modern working methods. With the development of a framework for automation technology, Matthias wants to enable flexible team deployment, fast and error-avoiding development work, and stable, tested technologies - sustainably.
Matthias Seehauser
Co-Founder & CEO
Matthias Seehauser is an expert in industrial automation with a focus on motion control and robotics. Through developing a framework for automation technology, he wants to make automation engineering attractive for young engineers too - by enabling new, modern ways of working and software paradigms in PLC development. Automation engineering should be about automating, controlling, and regulating processes - not about building application infrastructure or concerns such as reusing fragments of code.
Alexander Neuner
Software Engineer
Alexander has been writing automation software for close to 35 years - nearly 31 of those at Swarovski, where he built deep expertise in control systems for complex industrial machinery. He joined Zeugwerk in 2023 and contributes that experience directly to framework development and customer projects.
Stefan Besler
Software Engineer
Stefan has a strong background in software engineering, particularly in distributed systems, containerized environments, and modern backend technologies. He has been working in image processing and automation since 2012, including at Swarovski. At Zeugwerk, he has been involved since the earliest stages and has shaped the framework from the ground up, playing a key role in its architecture, core design, and tooling ecosystem. He helps guide the company’s technical vision, drives open-source initiatives, and brings modern software engineering practices into the PLC and automation domain.