KEMET Electronic

Customer Profile

A leading supplier of high-end electronic components since 1919, KEMET Electronics Corporation of Fort Lauderdale, Florida maintains a global footprint including 45 manufacturing and sales facilities with approximately 15,000 employees located in 22 countries in the Americas, Asia, and Europe.

Use Case

Modernize wired and wireless infrastructure to eliminate historical bottlenecks and facilitate the adoption of IoT and IIoT-enabled Industry 4.0 automation throughout manufacturing and sales facilities worldwide

Requirement

Centrally manage and secure high-performance Wi-Fi across 22 countries worldwide
Support manufacturing Industry 4.0, including mobility, IoT, and IIoT
Adopt an intuitive technology innovation ecosystem with AI-enabled tools

Solution

Aruba ESP with Central for cloud-based AIOps management; Aruba Wi-Fi 6 and switching solutions, with Dynamic Segmentation, for high-performance connectivity; ClearPass for wired and wireless authentication and policy enforcement to secure access for users and IoT; AirWave for network management

Outcome

Recovers millions of dollars in profitability by reducing manufacturing defects and inventory bottlenecks due to legacy systems while mobilizing manufacturing and sales facilities spanning millions of square feet worldwide
Cuts Wi-Fi deployment times from days to hours and enables zero-touch deployments across a global footprint
Gains resilient, future-ready infrastructure with the intelligence, scalability, and intuitive tool sets to meet emerging needs

“With Aruba, network management is so easy. We had everything rolling within a week.”

CHRIS HALL, DEPUTY CIO