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Customer Stories - Manufacturing Industry

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DaimlerChrysler Improves Teamwork with IGEL Thin Clients

Access to information for employees. Employee portals with IGEL thin clients improve internal communication

Employee portals, such as those that will be deployed at global corporation DaimlerChrysler, make information and tools for the execution of daily operations available to workers and employees. Hereby, the thin clients from IGEL Technology serve as front end terminals. Large corporations with multiple locations build a global network from production, development, and service centers whose successful operation and functioning can only be made possible through unobstructed teamwork. In order to most effectively inform employees within such a complex system and optimally support them in their daily tasks, company portals are offered with which employees can access company applications.

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Piper Aircraft

IGEL and Champion Solutions Group Help New Piper Aircraft Find New Freedom

The mission of Piper Aircraft, manufacturer of the legendary Piper Cub, is to give everyone 'the freedom of flight.' In order to complete this mission, they have had to free themselves by implementing a thin client network solution provided by IGEL and integrator Champion Solutions Group.

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General Motors

IGEL Thin Clients Put Time on the Side of GM

Imagine what it’s like to be responsible for accurately logging in the hours of a company that employs more than 150,000 people in North America, including 30 states and Canada. Now imagine having the nation’s largest union constantly making sure that you are compliant with union rules. This is a situation that calls for a reliable, cost-effective time-management solution. And that’s why General Motors chose IGEL thin clients.

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Akzo Nobel

...reduces IT costs by 30 percent thanks to IGEL’s thin clients

In order for Akzo Nobel, serving customers throughout the world with healthcare products, coatings and chemicals, to always be able to offer their clients the best products and services, they need to be on the forefront of technological development but also minimize costs for their operations.


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Maizey Plastics thin client to migrate ERP to Microsoft Navision Axapta

An elegant symbiosis: IGEL and Axapta

South African IGEL user, Maizey Plastics, uses the thirdgeneration thin client in an efficient ERP migration to Microsoft Navision Axapta.

In its mission statement, the successful South African plastics distributor Maizey Plastics adopts as its own a constant striving for efficiency and profitability. The success achieved to date by this medium-sized company, originally set up in 1950 as an engraving and die sinking business, is proof that this mission statement is not just empty words. Maizey Plastics is headquartered in Pretoria and is one of the major distributors of plastic products in South Africa today. The founder member of the national trade association PDASA (Plastics Distributors Association of South Africa) currently has 17 branches and employs a staff of 323. With a distribution and logistics centre covering an area of approximately 27,000m2, the company distributes more than 170 different intermediate products used in processing as well as end products for the signage, shop fittings, interiors and digital media sectors.

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ZF & Partner

The company health insurance fund, ZF & Partner, emphasises Thin Clients to support insured persons for efficient administration and processing all instances.

The company health insurance fund, ZF & Partner, can look back at a long tradition. The company health insurance for social security of employees came into being three years after establishing the ZF Friedrichshafen AG, which today ranks among the leading automobile manufacturer groups for motor power and vehicle engineering. At the time of establishing the company, the health insurance had 324 members. From this small beginning developed a strong insurance company. Today, the company health insurance fund, ZF & Partner, includes over 62,500 insured persons. To offer all members highly qualified services, it needs a corresponding extended and sophisticated IT infrastructure. Employees need access to all relevant data from over 110 workstations at 13 locations.

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Volkswagen Growth Fuels IT Renovation with IGEL

Hegeman Groep Automotive Nijmegen shifts gears using IGEL thin clients

Volkswagen Center Nijmegen is a division of Hegeman Groep Automotive, an independent car dealer that sells Volkswagen, Audi, Skoda and company cars in the Nijmegen area. The company is booming to say the least. As a result of its success, it has invested heavily in new premises which accurately reflect Hegeman Groep Automotive´s allure. The company moved into the new premises just recently.

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Messer Austria

Industrial gas producer Messer is optimizing its workstation environment with the help of IGEL Thin Clients.

At the central headquarters of Messer Austria in Gumpoldskirchen, you find an overlap of IT generations. The inventory includes both ten year old PCs incorporating special cards for the control of gas chromatographs and ultra-modern Thin Clients with a black design. With regards to Thin Clients, Messer Austria had no doubts whatsoever. At present, 75 of the 150 IT users in Austria have access to a Server-Based Computing (SBC) solution hosted in Germany with little need of support or maintenance.

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Scania keeps on trucking with IGEL Thin Clients

Scania is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of trucks and buses, with 2004 sales totalling around 6 billion and net income of nearly 435 million. Scania employs some 30,000 people world-wide and operates in nearly 100 countries. Its European production and assembly plants in Sweden and the Netherlands make extensive use of IGEL Thin Clients to ensure that business critical workflow and supply chain applications are available 24 x 7.

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