Published on 27-Sep-2010
Validated on 08 Jan 2013
"This new data center . . . was essential for our IT function to fully integrate with the business ambition of SCA. The IT infrastructure has to be a reflection of this new site: innovative with a low environmental impact." - Erwan Labalec, Western Europe Infrastructure Manager, SCA Packaging
Customer:
SCA Packaging
Industry:
Industrial Products
Deployment country:
France
Solution:
Autonomic Computing, Selected Business Solution (sBS), Product Lifecycle Management, Asset Management, Data Warehouse, Deep Computing, Dynamic Infrastructure, Energy Efficiency, Green/Sustainability, Infrastructure Simplification
Smarter Planet:
Smart Grid, Smarter Energy
Overview
SCA Packaging, part of SCA Group, is a European leading provider of customer-specific packaging solutions, with emphasis on state-of-the-art design and local service near customer facilities. SCA Packaging is Europe’s second-largest producer of containerboard paper used for the manufacturing of corrugated board and employs 15,500 people at more than 200 locations in 25 countries.
Business need:
As part of a project to construct a new plant in France, SCA Packaging decided to build an energy-efficient data center that could manage
all of the company’s 14 production sites. From that data center, SCA needed ways to remotely monitor and manage the assets operating at
all sites to ensure uptime of systems and maximize the value of assets.
Solution:
SCA implemented new infrastructure that delivered platform management, server availability cutover, energy management, predictive maintenance and asset management. This helps ensure production uptime and maximizes asset value by monitoring factory systems and anticipating maintenance needs. The solution also helps increase energy efficiency by up to 100,000 KWh per year.
Benefits:
· Predicts when maintenance is needed, spots production system problems and triggers corrective action to prevent incidents and avoid costly downtime
· Gathers real-time information directly from industrial processes and delivers the data to centralized monitoring and management systems
· Links the new data center with 13 other sites in France for coordinated management and improved decision making using integrated data
Case Study
SCA Packaging, part of SCA Group, is a European leading provider of customer-specific packaging solutions, with emphasis on state-of-the-art design and local service near customer facilities. SCA Packaging is Europe’s second-largest producer of containerboard paper used for the manufacturing of corrugated board and employs 15,500 people at more than 200 locations in 25 countries.
The Need
As part of a project to construct a new plant in France, SCA Packaging decided to build an energy-efficient data center that could manage
all of the company’s 14 production sites. From that data center, SCA needed ways to remotely monitor and manage the assets operating at
all sites to ensure uptime of systems and maximize the value of assets.
The Solution
SCA implemented new infrastructure that delivered platform management, server availability cutover, energy management, predictive maintenance and asset management. This helps ensure production uptime and maximizes asset value by monitoring factory systems and anticipating maintenance needs. The solution also helps increase energy efficiency by up to 100,000 KWh per year.
What Makes it Smarter
· Predicts when maintenance is needed, spots production system problems and triggers corrective action to prevent incidents and avoid costly downtime
· Gathers real-time information directly from industrial processes and delivers the data to centralized monitoring and management systems
· Links the new data center with 13 other sites in France for coordinated management and improved decision making using integrated data
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Products and services used
IBM products and services that were used in this case study.
Hardware:
BladeCenter JS23 Express, BladeCenter running OS - AIX, Storage: DS4700 Express, Storage: TS3100 Tape Library, System x: System x running Windows, System x: System x3550, System x: System x3650
Software:
Maximo Asset Management
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