References & projects
Ideas become solutions. Projects become long-term partnerships.
Long-term partnerships since 1980
We work successfully with our partners and serve satisfied customers across a wide range of industries. Long-standing cooperation, mutual trust and successfully implemented projects form the foundation of our shared success.
Our technical expertise, high flexibility and practical solutions create lasting added value for customers — from development and production to commissioning and ongoing support.
- industrial electronics for machine controls and embedded electronics
- public transport for traffic management and point control systems
- Automation installations and control cabinet manufacturing
- Laboratory and medical equipment Hardware and embedded software development
- Military applications, control of directional antennas and climate control monitoring
Reference companies (selection from our reference list):
Schweizerische Bundesbahnen AG
Städtische Verkehrsbetriebe VBL
Customer satisfaction as Datalink AG’s guiding principle
Customer satisfaction is central to everything we do. It forms the foundation for collaborative partnerships, sustainable solutions and long-term success.
Datalink AG has extensive experience in the development, production and commissioning of industrial electronics and control systems. Our expertise ranges from electronics development and embedded systems to control cabinet and control system manufacturing, industrial automation, software development and series production.
- Production of tested, cost-effective electronic boards in small to large quantities.
- Development and production of a safety control system for railway overhead-line earthing.
- Control cabinet manufacturing from a single unit to series production
- Development of a water disinfection installation using silver and copper dosing. Control system with pulse generator.
- Construction of a high-speed data logger for machine controls. Altium CAD layout of a 12-layer board with FPGA and DDR3 RAM. EMC measures and approval work.
- Development and production of a conveyor installation for screening machine controls in food production. Use of Siemens PLC and frequency converters. TIA Portal
- Control system manufacturing and commissioning for overhead-line isolation in SBB maintenance workshops under safety regulations
- Design and manufacture of high-current control installations for uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) and charging stations
- Development of a high-current PCB for electric vehicle battery chargers
- Control cabinet manufacturing and commissioning for railway overhead-line earthing
Datalink AG developed production control software on a handheld tablet using National Instruments LabVIEW. This simplified production installation monitoring and plastics granulate handling. Current silo levels and temperatures can be queried, and data exchange with the production data server is ensured. The equipment includes scales, printers and sensors with Profibus, 4–20 mA, Ethernet and WLAN.
- Development of the complete microcontroller control system for an electric vehicle with a graphical display. Objective: cost-effective hardware in high quantities.
- 2017: Datalink AG moved to larger premises in Dübendorf at a central transport location
- Reworking e-scooter electronics to meet standards approval requirements
- EMC optimisation of cleaning robots for industrial standards approval
- Software (LabVIEW) for a high-pressure test installation (up to 10,000 bar) on Windows and Linux
- Layout optimisation (EMC) and approval for wireless buttons and actuator/sensor devices for building automation, miniaturisation and cost reduction
- Control cabinet engineering and manufacturing for experimental high-pressure test installations
- Development and manufacture of point-position indicators for railway traffic.
- Burn-in test installations for laser diodes (LabVIEW, Python, layout with four 32-bit controller packages)
- Control cabinet engineering for the printing industry, including control system manufacturing (UL approval)
- Bottleneck control for road traffic regulation using a long-distance radio system.
- Redesign of electronic point controls for new EMC standards (public road transport)
- Development of a Power Touch display with GSM and card reader for a mobile cleaning robot, LabVIEW
- Total production exceeded 15,000 units of non-destructive measurement devices
- Expansion of a high-voltage test installation
- Heating and cooling system for a medical analysis device, measurement and regulation down to freezing using Peltier elements
- Development and production of four-channel current monitoring for 230 V heating and ventilation: approval MIL-STD-810G / −46 to +115 degrees,
- Development and production of a rotating beacon with integrated monitoring for railway level crossings
- Software for power supplies in hazard detection systems
- Development of control electronics for floor cleaning machines
- Point controls for a trolleybus depot
- Motor electronics for hardness testing equipment
- GSM module for alarm forwarding, used in traffic management systems.