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SKF: Leading the way in...
SKF: Leading the way in environmentally sustainable manufacturing
Challenge
By continuously improving its product development processes SKF can bring energy efficient products to market faster, accelerating cash flows, and helping its customers minimise carbon footprints. By optimising manufacturing processes these products can be built more efficiently. IT plays a critical enabling role in realising these ambitions.
Solution
BT has supplied SKF with an IP VPN wide area network (WAN) infrastructure that supports many aspects of its business, from product development, through manufacturing execution, demand planning, and supplier management, to shipping and logistics.
Value
SKF exists on the leading edge of product design, engineering, and many manufacturing disciplines. In such a highly automated operation, the IT infrastructure is critical not only to continued commercial success – by providing a reliable, resilient, and scalable systems platform – but also to the success of the Group’s environmental strategy. BT is proud to be associated with the success of SKF Group through sharing its networked IT services expertise to assure continuous process and technology improvement.
The SKF Group is a leading producer of bearings, seals, and lubrication systems. Headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden, the company employs 40,000 people at 120 manufacturing sites in 70 countries. Organized into industrial, automotive, and service divisions, SKF comprises about 150 companies. Each division comprises business units that are responsible for specific product lines and production facilities. SKF is renowned for its innovation and design expertise and for its commitment to the highest quality standards.
“Sustainability pervades every aspect of our supplier management strategies, from the reduction of CO2 emissions from suppliers’ steel mills to the collection, re-use, and recycling of wooden pallets. Even in disciplines such as networked IT services, suppliers such as BT must be able to demonstrate impeccable environmental credentials.”
Serge Ailhaud
Supplier Development Director
SKF Group