GTSdata was founded on March 1, 1985, in Hameln by Herbert Fehlauer, who served as managing partner. Prior to that, he had worked for fourteen years in the IT department of one of the leading manufacturers of prefabricated homes at the time, most recently as an authorized signatory. He was thus familiar with both: construction that was already approached from an industrial perspective, and the software required to support it. The young company initially developed software for businesses across all industries.

In 1994, GTSdata received its first commission to develop business software for a company in the precast concrete industry. This led to the creation of the PRIAMOS ERP system. Since that first commission, Herbert Fehlauer has continued to develop it in collaboration with the plants. This focus on this single industry continues to define GTSdata to this day.

In the decades that followed, PRIAMOS was implemented in many concrete plants. The plants were continuously involved in the development process: Every requirement from planning, production, shipping, and billing—as well as every exception—was incorporated into the system. New development tools kept the technology up to date. The result was software created by the industry for the industry, and with it, a body of industry knowledge that cannot be programmed, but only acquired through experience.

Patrick and Kerstin Fehlauer joined the company. Today, both hold leadership roles on the executive board. This ensures that succession within the family is secured. Patrick Fehlauer combines sales management, university teaching, and business mediation. At its core, it’s the same work: bridging the gap between technology and people, between knowledge and people, and between people themselves. Kerstin Fehlauer was an operations manager at a logistics company and understands processes from the perspective of those who have to keep them running every day.

Matthias Hilkmann took over as head of development. With him, the team gained a highly experienced software developer.

Artificial intelligence is changing what software costs and what it’s worth. As code is developed faster and more affordably, value shifts toward what software knows about its users’ work. We call this domain intelligence.

And we’re convinced that small, specialized teams can adapt to this transformation more quickly than large organizations. .

PRIAMOS Avantgarde is our answer to this challenge: not another expansion of the PRIAMOS ERP system, but a newly developed software solution. New features include AI capabilities built on this industry expertise and a foundation designed to support the AI of the coming years. But the way you work with the software is also new. One example is the dashboard: it shows at a glance what currently requires attention on the factory floor.

The first plants are switching to PRIAMOS Avantgarde

The most important question regarding artificial intelligence is not what it can do, but where humans must make decisions. In a precast concrete plant, it is ultimately a human who bears responsibility, not an algorithm. PRIAMOS Avantgarde was developed according to this principle: AI takes over what it can. The decision remains with humans.

Patrick Fehlauer has been intensively engaged with artificial intelligence for years, both in practical applications and in the fundamental questions facing the precast concrete industry. Most recently, he deepened his understanding of the subject at the University of Oxford’s Summer School, in the course “The Philosophy and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence.”