Built inside production. Scaling globally. Industrial automation works at scale when robots, software, and operations move in concert. That's what Idealworks has been engineering since 2020. Born inside BMW Group production, now orchestrating 1,700+ robots worldwide. Born on the factory floor Idealworks began inside BMW Group's innovation lab in 2015. Five years of exploration and testing on the production floor made one thing clear: BMW Group needed an autonomous mobile robot that could withstand and keep up with the harsh production environment. Nothing on the market was reliable enough. The iw.hub became the first autonomous robot deployed inside BMW Group's plants — CE-certified, production-hardened, and able to handle scalable material flow. Solving the hardware problem revealed the next layer: getting robots, people, and systems to work together across vendors, shifts, and systems never built to talk to each other. That required something the hardware alone couldn't provide. That's what Idealworks OS (formerly AnyFleet) was built for. One of Europe's largest robotics groups, present across continents Idealworks was fully acquired by Agile Robots SE in September 2025, moving from BMW Group subsidiary to part of one of Europe's largest robotics groups. BMW Group remains one of Idealworks' largest customers; the Munich headquarters and product roadmap did not change. In April 2026, Idealworks Inc. opened in Greenville, South Carolina, bringing the full orchestration system to the North American market. Different industries, different demands, one orchestration layer. Years of production-floor automation AMRs/AGVs orchestrated globally Global operation across all customer sites On both sides of the Atlantic Global headquartersMunich, Germany North American headquartersGreenville, SC, USA North American headquarters Idealworks AMR internationally recognized in the category 'AGV/AMR'. NVIDIA Solution Advisor: Consultant Certified NVIDIA Solution Advisor providing consulting on GPU-accelerated perception, simulation, and robotics system intelligence. Materialfluss Product of the Year, 2026 Awarded 3rd place in the Software category for the Idealworks OS. Idealworks OS wins IFOY Award in the category 'Intralogistics Software'. Actively orchestrating with these industries Automotive & mobility manufacturing OEM plants and Tier-1 suppliers; Idealworks' founding vertical Large-scale discrete and process manufacturing environments Intralogistics & material handling Internal logistics, goods-to-person, and high-throughput warehousing E-commerce fulfillment and multi-site logistics operators Agriculture & heavy machinery Agricultural OEM assembly and component logistics Applied robotics & semiconductor Precision manufacturing environments requiring mixed-fleet coordination Michael Alexander Schneider With over 22 years of executive experience across automotive and technology, Michael leads the company's vision to build the orchestration backbone for industrial automation. Joining Idealworks from BMW Group, Jimmy leads Idealworks' technical direction across AI, simulation, and the Orchestration System — and is the author of Synthetic Data: Revolutionizing the Industrial Metaverse (Springer, 2024). A computer engineer and AI researcher who joined Idealworks from BMW Group, Boulos leads the engineering and research teams building Idealworks' robotics and intelligence stack. With over 20 years in commercial strategy, Markus leads Idealworks' go-to-market, partnerships, and global expansion — including the launch of Idealworks Inc. in 2026. Idealworks has facilitated BMW Group production continuously since 2020. We build relationships the same way — for the long term, not the pilot. The benchmark is automotive production: three shifts, seven days, zero downtime tolerance. Every decision is made against that standard. Accountability you can trust Named customers. Real plants. Specific data. 30,000 missions per day, 98.5% availability. Proof over projections. Shipped software. Deployed fleets. Published standards. Everything claimed runs in production Let's get to know each other