TIE NEDERLAND BV

Their core work

TIE Nederland BV, operating under the brand TIE Kinetix Infoservices, is a Dutch technology SME specializing in digital data exchange, electronic document integration, and supply chain connectivity. Their core business is enabling organizations to automate and standardize the flow of business documents — orders, invoices, delivery notices — across enterprise systems using EDI and related protocols. In H2020, they applied this integration expertise to construction quality management (ACCEPT) and cloud-based manufacturing platforms (CREMA), acting as the digital infrastructure layer that connects processes, machines, and data sources. For a partner or client, they bring practical skills in interoperability, process digitization, and connecting heterogeneous IT systems in industrial and construction environments.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Both H2020 projects ran simultaneously in 2015–2017, which means there is no meaningful temporal evolution to trace within this dataset — the organization entered and exited the H2020 program in a single cohort. The two projects together suggest a deliberate cross-sector positioning: one foot in construction and energy efficiency, one in cloud manufacturing, both anchored by the same underlying capability in digital process integration. Without participation in later H2020 calls, it is not possible to determine whether they deepened either direction or shifted focus after 2017.

With only one cohort of projects (2015–2017) and no subsequent H2020 activity visible, the direction of their research engagement after this period is unclear — any future collaboration would likely build on their commercial EDI and supply chain digitization expertise rather than a maturing R&D trajectory.

How they like to work

TIE Nederland consistently joins as a participant rather than leading consortia, suggesting they prefer to contribute specialist capability within larger coordination structures rather than managing project governance. Across two projects they engaged with 31 unique partners in 8 countries, indicating they work comfortably in mid-to-large European consortia. This profile makes them a reliable specialist contributor — useful for bringing commercial-grade integration technology into a research consortium without the overhead of coordination responsibilities.

TIE Nederland has worked with 31 unique consortium partners across 8 countries, all concentrated in the 2015–2017 period. Their network spans both construction/energy and manufacturing domains, though the geographic and institutional composition of those consortia is not further detailed in available data.

What sets them apart

TIE Nederland is unusual among Dutch SMEs in H2020 in that it brings a commercial, market-proven product — EDI and supply chain document exchange — into academic-led research consortia, rather than developing research technology from scratch. This means their contribution tends to be grounded in deployable software rather than prototype systems, which can accelerate real-world validation in a project. For a consortium that needs a credible industrial digitization partner with an existing customer base, they offer something most university or research institute partners cannot.

Highlights from their portfolio

• ACCEPT
  The only project for which TIE received EC funding (€509,389), ACCEPT tackled automated quality assurance during construction of energy-efficient buildings — a practical application bridging digital process management and the built environment.
• CREMA
  CREMA's focus on cloud-based elastic manufacturing represents TIE's engagement with Industry 4.0 themes, demonstrating their capacity to contribute to distributed, cloud-connected production environments beyond their core document exchange domain.