Semiconductor developer transitions to remote working, maintaining productivity, security, meeting development schedules with OpenText Exceed TurboX.
Challenges
- Engineers having to quickly adapt to remote work when COVID-19 hit Germany
- Remote access had to be safe, efficient and effective
- Risk to impact R&D timescales if unable to continue development efforts due to the crises
Results
- Seamlessly transitioned to home working retaining performance and security
- Able to continue innovation throughout pandemic to meet project schedules
- High level of confidence in resilient relationship with OpenText
When stringent lockdown measures were introduced to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, TDK-Micronas design engineers had to quickly adapt to ensure they could continue to work safely, efficiently, effectively and securely.
The firm, part of TDK’s Sensor Systems Business Company, develops and manufactures sensor solutions and embedded motor controllers for automotive and industrial applications. Products include Hall switches, linear sensors, 3D direct-angle sensors and current sensors. To date, under the brand Micronas, the firm has shipped over five billion Hall sensors.
Paul Blenderman, Manager, Servers and Infrastructure at TDK-Micronas explained the immediate challenge faced by the firm, “We have design engineers located at a number of locations globally, but with a large concentration at our operational headquarters in Freiburg im Breisgau in Germany. When the COVID-19 crisis hit Germany, many of our layout engineers that live in the Grand Est region of France, were unable to commute due to the lockdown restrictions. Many others needed to work from home wherever possible too, and so we had to quickly adapt, which we were able to thanks to secure remote access provided by OpenText Exceed TurboX.”
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