Overview
A data foundation built for manufacturing quality
A global ODM develops and manufactures smartphones, tablets, AI PCs, XR devices, AIoT products, and automotive electronics for tier-one brands. Its highly automated production network spans multiple factories and generates inspection images, machine logs, and test files around the clock.
Challenge
Inspection growth had outpaced line-side storage
Production files were distributed across local disks, FTP servers, and virtual machines. Manual searches could take hours, single points of failure threatened availability, and storage teams had no consistent way to enforce three-year retention or preserve selected records for more than a decade.
- Line-side FTP and local storage created single points of failure and isolated data islands.
- Manual file searches delayed quality investigations across factories.
- Retention and deletion depended on operators rather than auditable policy.
Solution
One governed platform for the complete data lifecycle
The manufacturer federated and migrated existing repositories into distributed object storage. IDM Agents automatically collect new files and apply searchable tags, while lifecycle rules govern retention, expansion, and deletion. Redundancy, version protection, continuous data protection, and centralized monitoring improve operational resilience.
Federation and migration preserve access to existing data during the transition.
Automatic collection and tagging make equipment files searchable as soon as they arrive.
Distributed protection and centralized monitoring simplify multi-site operations.
Results
Measurable value at production scale
Nearly two billion production records are available through one interface, with a specified file found in as little as one second. Space utilization improves, manual administration falls sharply, and the consolidated architecture lowers total ownership cost.
- A specified record can be located in as little as one second among nearly two billion files.
- Documented space utilization improves by 566% and manual administration falls by 90%.
- The consolidated platform reduces total cost of ownership by approximately 60%.
Customer identity and selected implementation details have been anonymized to protect confidentiality. No source diagrams or architecture images are reproduced in this article.
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