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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 service

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

Deep dive into the qdTec-Day 2026: 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, deep technical content and a relaxed atmosphere

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

• Functional Safety

A fact sheet on cyber security

289 billion euros of damage in a single year, and a series of new EU rules. The fact sheet sorts out what applies to manufacturers.

• Cyber Security

Save the date: Tec-Day at querdenker engineering

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

• Cyber Security
• IoT-Cloud Engineering

Why the qdGate is the right IoT gateway for a mid-sized company

Machine data into the cloud securely and without a large project: what an industrial gateway is needed for, and what it has 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.

qdTest: test and programming adapters for small series and varied production

Quality assurance in electronics manufacturing usually costs a great deal of infrastructure. The qdTest family makes do with considerably less.

TOP 100 award: congratulations from Ranga Yogeshwar

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

Florian interviewed by the Ortenau Journal

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

The qdTest test and programming system in the trade press

ELEKTRONIKPRAXIS covers qdTest in two pieces: how the test and programming system works and what it is for.

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

querdenker engineering named a TOP innovator 2025

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

Named a technology leader for Baden-Württemberg

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

HIGH-Q, our first customer magazine

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

A handheld computer for 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.

Team development: riding the wave on

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

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

We are sponsoring the 2023 farm shop tour

Fifteen producers from Neuried invite visitors to the culinary farm shop tour. We are again one of the main sponsors.

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.

The embedded engineering traineeship

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.”

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

FILUP: a cordless light for dental loupes

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

• Hardware Engineering

Hello, democracy! A company portrait in the Badische Zeitung

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

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

A method for measuring demagnetisation

Proving residual magnetisation is expensive, so often nothing is measured at all. We have developed a method that changes this.

The Luftmeister project improves energy efficiency

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

The semf middleware library in the trade press

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

• Embedded Software Engineering

semf: the new embedded engineering library

Our own way of working has turned into a product: semf takes the groundwork off a project and leaves room for the application.

• Embedded Software Engineering

Face shields from the 3D printer

Sewing was not for us. Printing was: face shields from the 3D printer for those who needed them in the spring of 2020.

A heartfelt thank you

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