sedApta has joined Elisa Industriq: Italy becomes the European engine of manufacturing digitisation
With the completion of the integration process in December 2025, sedApta has become to all intents and purposes a business unit of Elisa Industriq, the European group specialising in the development of digital technologies for manufacturing and supply chain management. A step that marks one of the most significant moments in recent years in the digital transformation of continental manufacturing and that reinforces Italy's role as a pole of industrial innovation.
sedApta, founded in 2014, brings a consolidated structure as a dowry to Elisa Industriq, which had a turnover of 149 million euros in 2024: with more than 500 employees spread across offices in Genoa, Turin, Milan, Bologna, Vicenza, Naples and Lecce - as well as teams present in several European countries - it represents one of the Italian excellences in MES software, Advanced Planning & Scheduling (APS) systems and supply chain resilience solutions.
A single industrial platform to accelerate innovation
According to Benedetta Cuttica, CEO of sedApta, the total integration with Elisa Industriq stems from the desire to create a single industrial platform capable of covering the entire production value chain in an end-to-end manner: planning, scheduling, factory execution and supply chain supervision.
The operation brings together the capillarity and historical know-how of sedApta with the European dimension and investment strength of Elisa Industriq, accelerating the development of solutions based on artificial intelligence, machine learning applied to production, predictive models and cloud-native architectures. In this scenario, Italy assumes a role as a technological pillar for the entire group.
From technologies born in Italy to the global market
The entry into Elisa Industriq allows the solutions developed by sedApta to reach an international scale. Platforms such as Demand Driven Manufacturing Plus and the virtual manager LUMI VM, born to support companies with complex supply chains, now enter a global portfolio that can be integrated with the OT and IT ecosystems of the main industrial markets.
The technology roadmap aims at the creation of intelligent supply chain orchestration systems, capable of analysing material availability in real time, anticipating bottlenecks, optimising multi-station flows and guaranteeing business continuity even in highly volatile contexts.
Notew attention is also paid to interoperability: international standards, open APIs, distributed architectures and industrial cybersecurity, to allow companies to evolve without replacing the entire technology stack.
Italy's role: skills that become a strategic European value
As Cuttica emphasises, Italy - Europe's second largest manufacturing country - represents a unique heritage of skills. The deal with Elisa Industriq guarantees structural investment in research and development, the continuity of intellectual property of solutions designed in our country, and the valorisation of skills ranging from applied mathematics to planning models, up to optimisation algorithms and skills acquired in the field in advanced sectors such as mechanics, fashion, packaging, chemistry and pharmaceuticals.
The integration is also a strong signal for the skilled labour market: the aim is to attract data scientists, industrial software engineers and specialists in AI applied to production, consolidating in Italy a centre of competence with a global reach.
New markets and a change of international scale
Joining the group enables sedApta to extend its presence in the Nordic countries, strengthen its activities in France and Germany and prepare for expansion into new European markets with a high degree of automation.
The combination of local knowledge and the ability to deliver cloud solutions on a continental scale now makes it possible to accelerate product update cycles, strengthen industrial data governance and offer companies an integrated platform that combines advanced planning, manufacturing operations and supply chain control tower.
The medium-term vision
The vision outlined by CEO Benedetta Cuttica is ambitious: to make sedApta-Elisa Industriq the European reference point for industrial digitisation.
A goal that means accompanying companies towards a more efficient, sustainable and data-driven production, capable of simulating alternative scenarios, predicting economic and environmental impacts, optimising consumption and reducing planning errors.
Italian human capital remains at the heart of the strategy: design, research and innovation direction will continue to be led by Italian teams, which represent a differentiating asset for the entire Industriq division.
