Berger Bau uses ToolSense to make asset operations more transparent, faster to document, and easier to manage. This customer story focuses on the operational change: cleaner asset data, quicker issue handling, and maintenance workflows that teams can follow in daily work.
Berger Bau is one of the largest subsidiaries of the Berger Group, building across high-rise, construction, civil engineering, network construction and foundation engineering. Stefan Kraus runs digitalisation from Passau, with a remit that spans everything from heavy machinery to fleet vehicles.
A vast fleet, a growing audit burden
The Berger Group operates a gigantic equipment fleet, heavy machinery, vehicles, hand tools, the lot, all of which must be regularly inspected, serviced and certified for German safety standards. The team had captured most of it in systems, but seamless oversight of every audit cycle was never quite there.
Audit deadlines could slip through. A machine due for testing might be on a site three hours away. Test dates, service dates and maintenance schedules lived in separate lists maintained by different people, which made the simple questions, “is this machine certified to use today, and if not, when?”, surprisingly hard to answer.
One place for every audit cycle
A colleague had flagged ToolSense long before Stefan joined; the topic came back round in late 2022 and the platform was reintroduced as the right tool for the job. ToolSense replaced the parallel spreadsheets with a single record per machine, where every inspection deadline, service entry and responsible owner is attached to the asset itself.
We had the equipment captured in systems, but seamless oversight of the audits wasn’t there. The risk was always that a test deadline slipped through, or a machine was unavailable for a planned service because we didn’t know where it was.
Stefan Kraus · Digitalisation Manager, Berger Bau
