New network infrastructure and datacenter upgrade for a Furniture factory

More about Customer

Our Client is a high-tech manufacturer of home and office furniture. The factory offers its clients both ready-made solutions on the basis of designer trends and custom-built furniture.

The company is located in Western Europe and is the basis of the multiproduct holding, that includes several shopping centers, shopping mall and other companies.

Our Client operates for more than 50 years, its 52 thous. sq. m production sites featuring several process lines, workshops and warehouse facilities.

Challenge

Recently the factory has completed a reconstruction project of the production premises to transfer the technologies and capacities of Swiss Piatti cabinetry plant to its main production site.

Due to the expansion and upgrade of the entire production, the company needed a new IT infrastructure that could provide uninterrupted support of all automated production processes and simultaneously ensure secure data storage and transfer.

In line with the enterprise’s business strategy, the company also required an integration of customer interaction systems (CRM, VR modeling and 3D visualization) and enterprise resource planning (ERP).

Solution

To fulfil the assigned task, LWCOM technical specialists performed:

Project hardware

• NetApp FAS2650 data storage system
• Cisco UCS C240 server
• Cisco Catalyst 3850 switch
• Cisco SG350X switch

Result

The infrastructure model developed by LWCOM specialists with the implemented SCADA, CRM and ERP systems allowed to implement the concept of a digital smart furniture factory that constitutes a system of integrated process solutions, production and enterprise information control systems, 3D visualization technologies, etc., providing prompt design and batch production of competitive products for the furniture market.

• The upgrade allowed to provide complete support of operation and data storage for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system: an infrastructure was created for hardware secure remote control and status monitoring, as well as remote warehouse control
• The created infrastructure enabled secure storage and processing of statistical data from all production cycles as per the modern BigData paradigm: from order receipt through production processes to final delivery to the warehouse
• New approach to building the enterprise network infrastructure meets the economic feasibility parameters and requirements to performance, reliability, multi-servicing and isolation of production networks for the purpose of security provision for robotic hardware and production
• Improving of disaster recovery, performance level of the infrastructure, storage capacity and network reliability helped ensure continuous support for all production processes of the enterprise, and, as a result, prevent line downtime and avoid financial losses