About
Multi-domain expertise, structured execution
COELIS is a Swiss studio founded in 2015 in Lugano. We design management systems for asset-intensive, technically regulated and operationally complex organisations.
The story
COELIS was founded in 2015 inside mechanical engineering: process calculation, structural verification, material behaviour, production optimisation. It is the company’s first competence and it remains its yardstick: a management system is worth exactly as much as the physical process it governs.
Working on production processes brought the second one: machine learning applied to industry, developed at a Swiss artificial intelligence research institute and published by IEEE on predicting metal deformation in hot rolling. Not AI as a market category: models trained on machine data to decide better than a fixed rule.
Then industrial innovation (products, machines and production lines) and system-level asset management under ISO 55001: governance, policies, life-cycle decision criteria for physical assets. These are the two layers that turn a technical competence into a way of running an organisation.
The last layer is governing what the agents do: processes described in BPMN 2.0, roles defined per decision domain, a table saying who signs what and a record of what was done, on top of ordinary company tools. COELIS uses it on itself (its own consulting and its own ventures work this way) and brings it to clients only after having broken and rebuilt it on itself.
Areas of expertise
How the expertise stacked up
From 2015
Mechanical foundations
COELIS is founded in Lugano on mechanical and manufacturing engineering: process calculation, structural verification, material behaviour, machining optimisation. It is still the level at which every promise made to a client is measured.
From 2017
Machine learning on production
Research at a Swiss artificial intelligence institute brings predictive models for industrial processes into the company, among them predicting metal deformation in hot rolling, published by IEEE. AI arrives as a process tool, not as a sales argument.
From 2018
Industrial innovation
Years of R&D and innovation on products, machines and processes in Swiss manufacturing: taking an idea from the lab to the line, under the cost, quality and time constraints of people who actually produce.
From 2023
System-level asset management
Governance, policies and life-cycle decision criteria under ISO 55001, applied inside regulated asset-intensive organisations. Competence certified by the Institute of Asset Management, with distinction.
From 2025
Orchestrated operations and venture studio
Processes are described in BPMN 2.0 and executed by governed agents on ordinary company tools, held together by the method: roles per decision domain, who signs what, a record of actions. The same setup carries the ventures built and operated in house.
Five principles that define how we deal with clients and build ventures.
Structure before improvisation
A result that depends on exceptional effort is not a repeatable result. We design systems that keep working when we are not there.
Honesty before comfort
If an engagement is not for us we say so, and if a solution will not hold we flag it before starting, not in the final report.
Proof before theory
Every method and every tool goes through our own operations and ventures first. What we have not used, we do not sell.
Discipline before complexity
A system must be simple enough for the people who stay to run it and solid enough to carry growth. Complexity that impresses rarely survives the first night shift.
Ownership before dependency
We hand over systems the client owns and can run alone. The goal is to become unnecessary, not indispensable.
COELIS Sagl, founded in Lugano in 2015
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COELIS Sagl · Lugano, Switzerland