Business Continuity on three continents: VDI for Oerlikon HRSflow

Sector
Manufacturing
Area
Injection molding

Oerlikon HRSflow, part of the Swiss technology group Oerlikon, is a company specialized in the development and production of advanced hot runner solutions for a wide range of applications in the injection moulding industry. The Business Unit has more than 1000 employees and is present in major global markets.

Customer needs

Oerlikon HRSflow has expressed the need to provide its team of over 250 designers with reliable, high-performance and always up-to-date workstations. The needs were linked to the flexibility of being able to distribute jobs complete with all the necessary software in the shortest possible time, to the centralization of data and the elimination of machine failure.

These are three conditions that had to be guaranteed by the proposed solution, reducing the costs of the IT department and those linked to the use of traditional workstations. Among the most significant applications to be virtualized was SolidWorks 3D CAD.

The innovative solution proposed by beanTech is based on Dell Technologies servers, VMware virtualization software and NVIDIA Virtual GPU technology. The main advantages consist in:

INCREASED RELIABILITY

  • Data security

  • VMware technology, market leader

  • Data centralization

  • Data center backups

  • Business continuity

  • Resources assigned as needed

HIGH PERFORMANCE

  • NVIDIA vGPU graphics acceleration

  • 3D graphics and access from any device, even remotely

  • Productivity improvement

LOWER COSTS

  • Less maintenance

  • Less management costs

  • Rapid ROI (Return On Investment)

THE SUCCESS STORY AT A CLICK

Take time to discover the features and benefits of the tailor-made VDI solution for Oerlikon HRSflow.

VDI technology and internal skills, associated with those of the partner, have made it possible, during the pandemic crisis, to safely and successfully manage the business continuity of our Engineering resources on three continents. Today they enable a modern, hybrid, flexible and sustainable work model both economically and environmentally, as required by the business plan and corporate culture. […]

Alberto Antonini
CIO, Oerlikon HRSflow
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