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Company Overview

Schwizer Haustechnik AG is a traditional Swiss family business that has stood for craftsmanship, reliability, and comprehensive expertise in bathroom, sanitary, heating, and ventilation systems since 1937. Across its four locations—Gossau, St. Gallen, Rickenbach-Wil, and Herisau—its roughly 60 employees deliver modern building technology solutions under the motto: everything from a single source.

The company’s service portfolio ranges from custom dream bathrooms to energy-efficient heating and ventilation systems, as well as full-scale renovation projects.

In addition to its craftsmanship roots, the company is characterized by its openness to innovation and new technologies. Processes are continuously optimized to provide customers with the best possible results. In this spirit, an important digital milestone was reached in 2021: the introduction of the Timly inventory software, which now forms the backbone of the company’s internal tool and equipment management.

The Challenge

For many years, the management of tools, machines, and company vehicles was fully analog. A magnetic board with a printed list hung on the workshop wall—each magnet represented a device and was assigned to a specific employee.

This system created typical problems:

  • Magnets fell off—and no one knew where the device had gone.
  • No traceability in tool check-outs.
  • High time investment for inventories.
  • No central overview of equipment conditions or responsible employees.

With the growing number of employees and four separate locations, it became clear that a digital solution was needed to improve management, transparency, and efficiency.

The Solution

Since mid-2021, Schwizer Haustechnik AG has been using Timly’s cloud-based inventory and tool management software. It digitally maps all tools, machines, and vehicles and enables centralized, transparent management across all locations.

Key improvements in use:

  • Mobile device management via app: All relevant data is accessible through the Timly inventory app—whether from a phone in the workshop or directly on a job site.
  • Digital assignment & check-out: Tools can be scanned, reserved, and assigned to employees with ease. Every transaction is logged historically.
  • Transparency and control: The warehouse coordinator always sees who is using which device and in what condition it is.
  • Maintenance management: Defects and maintenance tasks are logged directly in Timly, including photos and comments. Responsible staff receive automatic notifications.
  • Roles and permissions: Employees only see the information relevant to them—from technicians to accounting.

“To be honest, I was a bit skeptical at first that we even needed it, but now I can’t imagine life without it – I’m absolute Timly -Fan! It’s child’s play to pick up new equipment, I’ve never had such an uncomplicated overview of our company inventory.“

Nathan
Meyer
Warehouse Coordination & Workshop
Schwizer Haustechnik AG
Nathan Meyer

The Results

By summer 2022, Schwizer Haustechnik AG had fully recorded over 500 items in Timly—with the number continuing to grow.

Digitization delivered immediate, tangible benefits:

  1. Greater transparency across all devices, tools, and vehicles
  2. Time savings through automated processes and digital search
  3. Improved traceability for check-outs and maintenance
  4. Significantly fewer losses and misunderstandings
  5. Clearly structured responsibilities through the role system

Even the accounting department benefits: with the stored data, cost centers, usage duration, and replacement purchases can be evaluated much more easily—boosting budget planning and cost control.

Key Takeaways

  • Digital tool management creates transparency and saves valuable time in daily operations.
  • Mobile usage eliminates paper processes—everything runs digitally across locations.
  • Role and permission structures enable secure and efficient collaboration.
  • An easy, intuitive solution like Timly drives adoption and delivers noticeable efficiency gains.

Schwizer Haustechnik AG demonstrates how digitalization in the skilled trades works in practice—with Timly as a reliable partner for modern, mobile tool management.