SFN AG, based in St. Gallen, was founded in December 2022 as a spin-off of the University of St. Gallen (HSG) and the University of Applied Sciences of Eastern Switzerland (OST). SFN AG supports industrial companies, in their profitability optimization to implement the Smart Factory. Due to the new challenges in supply chain, resources and energy supply, the implementation of the Smart Factory is changing from a "nice to have" to a "must have". In over 5 years of research, 44 generic use cases were scientifically derived and defined from more than 800 industrial companies, forming the "Smart Factory Navigator Framework". Using the Smart Factory Navigator Framework, SFN AG develops the appropriate individual Smart Factory strategy for industrial companies and identifies the use cases with the highest business value for the customer. From the individually matching use cases, the Smart Factory Navigator matches the optimal IT solutions and IT solution providers for the customer. In this way, industrial companies gain investment security, implementation speed and transparency in a previously largely confusing IT market. In addition, SFN AG offers neutral and scientifically based consul