Kaneka Concocts an Impeccable Infrastructure Formula for Malaysia’s Industry 4.0 Vision With Nutanix
October 16 2017 - 10:00PM
Business Wire
Chemical Manufacturing Company Sees 35%
Increase in Productivity with Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform
Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX), a leader in enterprise cloud computing,
today announced at its .NEXT on Tour conference in Singapore that,
in line with realizing Malaysia’s Industry 4.0 vision, chemical
manufacturing giant Kaneka Malaysia (“Kaneka”) has re-engineered
its IT infrastructure with the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform.
According to Kaneka, the company is now enjoying an overall 35%
increase in productivity, 83% lower power consumption and 91%
greater efficiency in manpower deployment.
As one of the most developed chemical industries globally,
Malaysia’s chemical sector enjoys an abundance of natural resources
and has a supportive business environment. But to further increase
competitiveness, chemical manufacturing companies like Kaneka
Corporation have turned to improving their infrastructure to raise
productivity and efficiency, which in turn translates into greater
profitability. This is in line with Malaysia’s move to leverage the
nine technology pillars under Industry 4.0 vision to transform the
nation into a smart city which includes intelligent manufacturing
as one of its features.
Kaneka has been operating in Malaysia since August 1995 and
belongs to the Kaneka Corporation, an international chemical
manufacturing company which produces products such as modifiers,
expandable plastics and synthetic fibres. Prior to implementation
of the Nutanix solution, Kaneka had a legacy IT infrastructure that
comprised of inefficient disparate systems which were expensive to
maintain and difficult to scale up as IT requirements expanded.
Working through the IT partner Virtuosity Solutions, an IT
Technology Assessment study was conducted which included interviews
with top management and systems engineers on Kaneka’s operations
and pain points.
“An IT Assessment study has never been performed in Kaneka
Malaysia but our investment on the study has definitely proven its
worth,” said Ehtesham Ihsan, Acting Department Head, Kaneka. “The
subsequent detailed study done by our trusted and capable
consulting partner allowed us to realise the value of IT
Infrastructure’s role in driving overall productivity, and that
helped us to make the decision to overhaul our systems with Nutanix
as one of the core technologies.”
The study showed that Kaneka’s IT systems were not adequately
protected against potential hardware or software crashes, system
intrusions or datacentre outages. This could severely impact
availability of Kaneka’s critical operations. Additionally, the IT
systems were not standardized in deployment and operations, hence
curtailing efficiency and greater business growth. New technologies
were needed to re-engineer Kaneka’s entire IT operation.
The Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform provided a converged and
simplified infrastructure stack, as well as streamlined and
simplified management operations. Thirty-four of Kaneka’s servers
were migrated to the Nutanix Platform. Business critical
applications that were running on legacy systems were virtualized
including SAP, SAP SRM, SharePoint, HRMS and a couple of other
proprietary mission critical systems to ensure better enterprise
resource planning and operations. The entire implementation took
only four months to complete, as opposed to the typical six to
eight months, without causing great disruption to day-to-day
business operations.
Since the deployment of the systems on June 2017, Kaneka has
seen multiple benefits. With Nutanix Prism, the centralized
infrastructure management layer, Kaneka has reported a 91%
reduction in IT support required and 477 man hours saved as less
manpower was needed for maintenance. In addition, the Nutanix
solution has resulted in a decreased footprint of 300 square feet
as the number of physical servers required has been cut down by 15.
The more efficient system has also led to 83% of reduction in power
consumption. In particular, total cost of operation has reduced
significantly at an estimated RM 1.5 million in 5 years.
“We’re pleased that our Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS has played a
pivotal role in helping Kaneka greatly increase productivity and
output,” said Matt Young, SVP and Head of Asia Pacific and Japan,
Nutanix. “Kaneka’s Malaysia operations is a testbed for this
infrastructure overhaul and based on its success thus far, we look
forward to working with the rest of the Kaneka facilities in other
regions in the not too distant future.”
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