PROJECT PARTNERS:
LIVE
PRODUCTION
REPORTS AT
TECONNEX
EUROPE
Case study
Context:
Teconnex Europe was founded six
years ago and is part of a group
of companies that has factories
in seven countries. In Romania,
the Teconnex Europe factory
produces technical coupling
solutions for the automotive
industry and has over 230
employees, growing from the
initial 40 employees when actual
production began.
To benefit from the efficiency
of digital transformation from
the outset, Teconnex sought a
partner with experience to help
primarily digitize the production
processes in the factory, which
were traditionally carried out.
Teconnex initially chose Orange
Business for the implementation
of infrastructure services -
mobile phone services, fixed
internet, structured cabling.
As development progressed,
Teconnex’s needs grew,
TECONNEX FACTORY OBTAINS LIVE
PRODUCTION REPORTS USING
THE SOLUTION IMPLEMENTED
BY KFACTORY TOGETHER WITH
ORANGE BUSINESS
and Orange Business began
delivering other services, such
as managed Wi-Fi services in
the production hall and offices,
as well as presenting solutions
to address real-time production
analysis needs. One of these
solutions, KFactory, was already
„grown“ in the Orange Fab
business incubator and perfectly
suited Teconnex’s needs to
monitor production, to see the
rate of defective products or
those requiring special attention.
Orange Business, together
with the start-up KFactory,
created a long-term digital
transformation plan, as a result
of which Teconnex Europe will
have complete visibility over all
processes on the production line
to intervene immediately in case
of deviations from the production
plan.
The solution chosen:
The solution selected was
KFactory, an Industry 4.0 solution
to automate data collection
and analysis from industrial
production equipment. The
KFactory solution is part of the
Orange Fab incubator, managed
by Orange Business. It allows
real-time analysis of data from
industrial processes so managers
can easily identify areas where
intervention is needed for
efficiency.
Features of the chosen
solution, good practices:
The implementation of the
KFactory solution within
Teconnex had several specificities
related to factory operations and
the need to ensure cybersecurity
in the production flow alongside
the digitization process.
Vlad Cazan, Co-founder
of KFactory: „In terms of
specificities, because we are
talking about something different
from other customers, we had
Teconnex Europe, a manufacturer of technical coupling solutions for the
automotive industry, following the completion of a digital transformation project
alongside Orange Business, can analyze real-time information related to the
production flow through a solution delivered by a start-up grown in the Orange
Fab incubator, a solution also used by dozens of other factories.
Business as a technology partner
for implementing infrastructure
solutions.
With the increase in the number
of employees and the start of
industrial production processes of
technical coupling solutions for the
automotive industry, the need for
data collection and analysis from
industrial equipment has arisen.
Orange Business proposed the
implementation of the KFactor
solution, an Industry 4.0 solution
for automating data collection and
analysis from industrial production
equipment, part of the Orange Fab
incubator, managed by Orange
Business.
Benefits:
Access to real-time data.
Rapid adoption of the system.
High level of user satisfaction.
the opportunity to implement
the solution in a spot-welding
production flow, which we had
never done before. A large part
of Teconnex’s production flow
consists of spot welding. This
was a challenge for us – to come
up with a different approach
and ensure that our platform
can be implemented on any type
of equipment, on any type of
production flow.“
Ciprian Foghis, ICT Business
Development Manager at Orange
Business: „A very important
aspect in implementation was
cyber security. We took this
global threat very seriously,
which is why the solution
implementation was done
in parallel with securing all
components by those involved
in the project and with user
training to reduce the risks of
cyber-attacks.“
Results:
40% of employees, out of a
total of 230, use the KFactory
app as part of the production
process. This process generates
a monthly production of 280,000
units, an increase of 12%
compared to 2022.
4% increase in production
efficiency as a result of using
the KFactory system.
Ovidiu Gavriş, General Manager,
Teconnex Europe: „In addition to
the results we see and feel, we
also have positive feedback from
employees who interact daily
with this system.“
The implementation of the
industrial process data analysis
system will allow Teconnex to
use artificial intelligence and
machine learning algorithms
to start making predictions—
predictive maintenance, risk
pattern recognition, and
predictions to managers to help
them foresee certain situations.
Summary:
Teconnex Europe was founded
in 2018 with 40 employees. To
be efficient from the beginning,
the company chose Orange
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