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.
2 I KFactory®