Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG

"With the help of FINDIQ we manage the transparent building of advanced technical knowledge know-how, reduce standstill and repair times while at the same time deriving goal oriented quality measures."

Daniel Fiedler, Manager Test Engineering

About the company

  • Under a global umbrella brand, Phoenix Contact offers innovative products, solutions and digitalization expertise for the electrification, networking and automation of all sectors of the economy and infrastructure.
  • The family-owned company thus enables industry and society to transform into a sustainable world with long-term growth prospects for all.

Motivation

  • Answering the challenge of fluctuating production personnel with a “cross-shift” knowledge management system

  • Optimizing the failure detection of articles at the end of line test as well as  preceding production processes

  • Validating a solution that would be suitable for a global rollout, considering the complexity of products, machines, geographies

Assistance for diagnosis from item to production errors.

Goals

Item and production errors become traceble. This means that the End-of-Line-Tests are geared toward total transparency, so that the procedure can be optimized in the future and the repetition of errors is avoided.

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Proof of Concept

  • Definition of pilot site, production area and product group to start with

  • Digitization of the knowledge base for end-of-line testing of the selected product group

2024

Contract Negotiation

  • Identification of further application use cases in the upstream production process

  • Decision on long-term (technical) integration and partnership

2025

Global Rollout

  • Set up and training of a central Production Support Team to  drive the global rollout

  • Transfer of the knowledge base from Germany to first international production sites