From Metz to Mulhouse, the Grand Est is France's leading cross-border industrial region. SXE Consulting guides its factories towards Industry 4.0 — IoT, MES, data, automation — with a pragmatic approach: assessment, pilot with measured ROI, then full roll-out.
Steel in the Moselle, automotive in Alsace and the Ardennes, chemicals around Reims, food processing in Champagne: the Grand Est concentrates a dense industrial heritage — and often mature equipment that would be ruinously expensive to replace. This is precisely where well-run Industry 4.0 belongs: connecting what already exists (IoT retrofit), exploiting dormant data, automating what needs to be automated. Based on the Luxembourg border, SXE Consulting works across the entire region with one simple principle: prove the ROI on a pilot before scaling up.
There is no need to replace your machines: IoT retrofit connects the mature equipment of the regional industrial base at limited cost.
A 90-day proof of concept on one line, measured ROI, then a decision. No multi-million-euro gamble without prior evidence.
Steel, automotive, chemicals, food processing: our 4.0 use cases come from the industries that make up the Grand Est.
All our Industry 4.0 expertise, deployed across factories in the Grand Est.
Maturity assessed, use cases prioritised, costed roadmap in 30 days.
Connect your equipment, collect real-time data.
Robots, cobots, PLCs — freeing your teams from arduous tasks.
Turning your data into decisions, in real time.
Synchronising the shop floor and management systems, 100% traceability.
Getting your teams to adopt 4.0 tools for the long term.
A cross-border firm that knows the factories of the Grand Est from the inside — and that proves the ROI before asking you to invest.
Metz 45 minutes away, Nancy an hour and a half, Strasbourg two hours from our headquarters. Regular on-site presence across the whole region, without prohibitive travel costs.
Our pilot format: 90 days, one use case, measured KPIs. If the pilot convinces, we scale up. If not, you have invested 90 days — not a full roll-out budget.
Our consultants come from industry. They know that an MES which disrupts production is a failure, however technically sound it may be.









4 simple steps, from first contact to measured results.
Thirty minutes to understand your equipment, your systems and your challenges. Free of charge.
Thirty days: digital maturity, prioritised use cases, costed roadmap with ROI.
Deployment of the priority use case on one line, with actual results measured.
Gradual extension to the other lines, team training, lasting adoption.
A first 30-minute call to identify your 4.0 use case with the highest ROI.