What is happening at querdenker

DeviceMed reports on the qdTest board test system

DeviceMed 2-2026 on qdTest: “A self-contained board test system for electronics production”.

Introducing MKI, our sales partner and field sales team

MKI Solutions AG supplies housings, membrane keypads, circuit boards and 3D-printed parts. Together we can deliver complete devices.

Deep dive qdTec-Day 2026: answers on cyber security, functional safety and automated board testing

The questions of the qdTec-Day, answered at length: cyber security, functional safety and automated board testing.

• Cyber Security
• Functional Safety

A full house, in-depth technical talks and a relaxed atmosphere

Around 40 clients, prospective clients and partners came to the first qdTec-Day at flow 1986 in Offenburg. The rooms were full.

• Functional Safety

Fact sheet on cyber security

289 billion euros of damage in a single year, and a series of new EU regulations. The fact sheet sets out which of them apply to manufacturers.

• Cyber Security

Save the date: Tec-Day at querdenker engineering

Cloud and IoT, cyber security under the CRA, systems-on-module: the subjects of our first Tec-Day.

• Cyber Security
• IoT-Cloud Engineering

Why the qdGate is the ideal IoT gateway for mid-sized companies

Machine data to the cloud, securely and without much effort: what mid-sized companies need an industrial gateway for, and what it has to be able to do.

A qdTest article in the print edition of ELEKTRONIKPRAXIS

Three pages in ELEKTRONIKPRAXIS 16/2025, in print: “Autonomous board testing”, following the online version in October.

TOP 100 award: congratulations from Ranga Yogeshwar

Presented in Mainz by Ranga Yogeshwar: querdenker engineering is among the TOP 100 of the German Mittelstand.

The qdTest test and programming system in the trade press

ELEKTRONIKPRAXIS covers qdTest in two publications: how the test and programming system works and the benefits it offers.

Podcast: how a democratic organisation shapes success

Ortenau Inside, episode 9: Florian Seibold talks to Wolfgang Huber about internal processes and what democratic organisation means in a competitive market.

qdSOM STM32MP13x: an embedded system-on-module for industry and IoT

A system-on-module built on the STM32MP13x: computing power in a small footprint, for industrial automation and IoT.

• Hardware Engineering

Florian interviewed by the online portal Ortenau Journal

The Ortenau Journal interviewed our managing director at length, as text and as a podcast.

qdTest: test and programming fixtures for small batches and high-mix electronics manufacturing

Quality assurance in electronics manufacturing usually requires a lot of infrastructure. The qdTest family needs considerably less.

querdenker engineering named a TOP innovator 2025

The award came on the first application. The TOP 100 seal is based on a scientific selection process.

“Spitze auf dem Land! Technologieführer für Baden-Württemberg”: we are a technology leader for Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Württemberg recognises nine companies as technology leaders in rural areas. We are one of them.

First issue of our customer magazine HIGH-Q

HIGH-Q has been published for our tenth anniversary: a magazine about the road we have taken, what matters to us and what lies ahead.

A handheld computer for high-precision measurement

A mobile handheld device for measurement work, small, light and accurate enough for use in the field.

The QDE story: ten years of querdenker engineering

“I want to do something good for the world.” How that sentence from Florian Seibold turned into an engineering firm over ten years.

Specialists in medical systems engineering

A brochure on medical systems engineering: what we do, and the medical device classes we work in.

Working remotely at querdenker engineering

Martin has been working fully remotely for a year. A conversation about how that works day to day with embedded systems.

We are sponsoring the Farm Shop Tour 2023

Fifteen producers from Neuried invite visitors to the Culinary Farm Shop Tour. Once again we are one of the main sponsors.

Use case: developing a cinema seat control

An upgrade for the drive control of a connected cinema seating system, on behalf of limoss GmbH and built on semf.

• Embedded Software Engineering

Medical technology: a technical article published

MEDengineering carries a multi-page technical report on the relaunch of the VADOplex therapy device, which we delivered for OPED.

• Hardware Engineering
• Embedded Software Engineering

Team development: we keep riding the wave!

Does a team where everything runs smoothly still need training? We think so, especially then.

Embedded engineering traineeship programme

Christian came from computer science and wanted to get closer to the hardware. He describes how his traineeship with us went.

A report on SWR Aktuell

What happens to a company whose name is taken over by political activists? SWR television visited us in Ichenheim.

A Badische Zeitung interview about lateral thinking

Critical questions from the Badische Zeitung about our company name: “We are simply ordinary engineers.”

FILUP: a cordless LED light for dental loupes

A cordless loupe light for dentistry, developed with Alexander Gutowski, AXON Electronics and Feinwerktechnik Allgäu.

• Hardware Engineering

Modern C++ software architecture

The road from “we do embedded C++” to “we understand embedded C++”: what we learned about modular architecture, stumbling blocks included.

• Embedded Software Engineering

Hello, democracy! Featured in the BZ Lahr company portrait

The Badische Zeitung looks behind the scenes: from Waging in Bavaria to Ichenheim in Baden, and how democracy in a company actually works.

Quite simply: a heartfelt thank you

Four new lateral thinkers and a full year: looking back on 2018 before the winter break.

The semf middleware library featured in the trade press

The trade press introduces semf: how ready-made C++ modules shorten development time in embedded work.

• Embedded Software Engineering

A method for measuring demagnetisation

Measuring residual magnetisation is expensive, so it is often not measured at all. We have developed a method that changes this.

Machine learning, edge computing and 32 bits

Neural networks on a 32-bit controller: what came out of the ANNPR conference with ScorePad and the ZHAW.

• Embedded Software Engineering

3D-printed COVID-19 face shields protect against droplet infection

We could not sew. We could print: face shields from our 3D printer for those who needed them in spring 2020.

Luftmeister project increases energy efficiency

A project with Luftmeister GmbH of Kirchzarten: ventilation technology that uses less energy in operation.

semf: the new embedded engineering library

Our own way of working has become a product: semf provides the foundation for a project and leaves room for the application.

• Embedded Software Engineering