The deployment of the optical fiber at POK’s Nogent-sur-Seine site in France has enabled the fire safety equipment major to increase their internet speed from around 30 Mbps to 200 Mbps.
They notice a significant difference when using software, such as skype for video-conferencing with customers or teams abroad. Similarly, sending large files now works very well and efficiently, the company noted.
Optical fiber transmission
POK strongly encourages their neighboring organizations to equip themselves with optical fiber transmission as well, because they have clearly witnessed that the investment is totally worth it. Not knowing when the region would equip the industrial zones, the organization took the lead.
Of course, the more companies there are in the area to support change, the lower the investments will be over the years.
WiFi connectivity
All of POK’s offices have been equipped with WiFi connectivity for a long time
All of POK’s offices have been equipped with WiFi connectivity for a long time, which allows organization to work on all their files in real time and in any office, meeting room and workshop. The next mission is to optimize their telephony system by using the cloud.
This will allow organization to facilitate internal communication, optimize the possibilities offered by digital technology will make answering machine, call transfer, assigned numbers, etc. easier), and optimize the return on investment. For the moment, they are still testing how the optical fiber reacts to get to this important step.
Digitalization
They provide all the necessary tools to avoid analog, laptops and tablets to take notes directly on the digital files and not have to copy something by hand. It is a waste of time, and the possibility of making mistakes. In this way, each employee is encouraged to contribute ideas to digitize and facilitate their daily work.
This does not take away jobs, on the contrary. This gives them the tools to be more efficient in the face of competition and improve quality, traceability, in short to be better and to be able to concentrate on important tasks and of greater added value. Significant improvements in inventory management and shipment tracking are being validated using new digital tools.