Detecon launches Hyperconnectivity Campus (HCC)
Key capabilities of the Hyperconnectivity Campus
– Innovation at the Hyperconnectivity Campus is tested and implemented under real industrial conditions.
– Existing and emerging technologies are developed, validated, and scaled together with ecosystem partners.
– This enables measurable business impact through the application of technologies in operational environments.
New innovation platform for connected industrial and logistics ecosystems goes live on February 18
Eschweiler, February 18, 2026 – Together with its cooperation partner Hammer Advanced Logistics, management consultancy Detecon today announces the launch of the Hyperconnectivity Campus (HCC) – a real-world innovation platform for connected industrial and logistics ecosystems. Located at the Hammer Advanced Logistics Campus in Eschweiler, the HCC brings together technology, processes, and partnerships in an integrated environment designed to translate digital transformation into operational reality.
The Hyperconnectivity Campus serves as a space for applied innovation. It enables companies, technology partners, and research institutions to test digital solutions under real operational conditions, develop use cases, and scale business models in an industrial setting.
Key focus areas include data-driven applications, AI-based optimization, digital twins, as well as resilient and sustainable supply chains. The objective is to significantly shorten innovation cycles and accelerate the deployment of ecosystem-driven solutions from concept to execution.
“For us as a logistics company, it is essential that innovation does not remain confined to the lab but can be integrated and scaled within real operational processes,” says Tim Hammer, CEO of Hammer Advanced Logistics. “The Hyperconnectivity Campus enables digital solutions to be tested directly in an industrial environment, creating measurable value in terms of efficiency, resilience, and sustainability.”
“With the Hyperconnectivity Campus, we are creating a platform where innovation can be implemented under real operational conditions.“ explains Christian Maasem, Hyperconnectivity Expert at Detecon. “Our ambition is to develop, validate, and scale both existing and emerging technologies together with ecosystem partners – delivering measurable business impact”.
About the Hyperconnectivity Campus (HCC)
The Hyperconnectivity Campus is a joint initiative by Hammer Advanced Logistics and Detecon. It acts as both a testbed and an innovation ecosystem for connected industrial and logistics solutions, combining strategic consulting expertise with technological implementation capabilities in a collaborative environment for sustainable value creation.
The official opening of the Hyperconnectivity Campus (HCC) in Eschweiler
About Detecon
We are Detecon. Think, do, transform: Guiding our customers with our outstanding expertise and an inspiring enthusiasm, we deliver digital transformation all the way by engineering it. Based on our experience as management consultants in digitization, our clients value us as trusted advisors for more than four decades. By joining forces with them, we lead them on their transformation journey into a sustainable, data driven and highly-connected future. With more than 1.100 employees in our offices worldwide as well as highly qualified consultants from more than 50 nations, we have both the quality and the quantity to build long-lasting relationships for longterm solutions.
About Hammer Advanced Logistics
Hammer Advanced Logistics is an independent, owner-managed logistics service provider headquartered in Aachen with a corporate history dating back to 1946. The company develops and operates national and international transport and logistics solutions for industrial and commercial clients and supports them in designing integrated supply chain processes.
With locations across the Aachen region, including Eschweiler and Düren, Hammer provides transport, warehousing, and production logistics services as well as logistics consulting across the entire supply chain.
Learn more at: www.hammer-ac.de
