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Commodity Management & Trading

Transforming trading ecosystems through data-driven insights and secure, agile platforms that empower global commerce.

Customer & Marketing Strategy

Reimagining customer engagement with personalized, connected experiences that build trust and long-term value.

Digital Engineering

Turning ideas into scalable digital solutions—accelerating transformation through design, technology, and engineering excellence.

Station Studio

Redefining mobility hubs with digital innovation to create smarter, sustainable experiences for people and businesses on the move.

Supply Chain & Industry 5.0

Building resilient, intelligent supply networks that anticipate change and deliver efficiency with purpose.

Sustainability

Driving responsible innovation to help organizations achieve net-zero goals and create a positive impact for future generations.

Physical AI

Physical AI gives machines, robots and physical operations the ability to perceive their environment, decide what matters and act in real time. Factories, plants, stores and infrastructure become systems able to sense conditions, learn from them and improve on their own, closing the gap between the physical and the digital world.

Next-Gen Infrastructure

From networks as infrastructure to connected platforms that enable critical, autonomous and intelligent operations.

Retail

From satisfaction surveys to EBITDA: closing the loop on customer pain points

A department store retailer in Mexico turned a biannual NPS programme into a closed-loop customer listening mechanism, connecting feedback to pain-point initiatives and incremental EBITDA.

From satisfaction surveys to EBITDA: closing the loop on customer pain points

Retail

Unified returns management

A retailer processing more than two million returns a year moved from channel-specific workflows toward one digital returns system. The initiative connects request creation, status tracking and routing across sales and return channels.

Unified returns management

Contact

Wireless communication network supports high data volumes and improves digital experience (DX) for employees at Nihonkaisui

At Nihonkaisui’s Ako Plant, daily production of 650 tons of salt depends on reliable operations across a large, corrosion-prone environment. The plant moved toward wireless connectivity to create a more stable foundation for factory DX, support real-time uploads of high-volume equipment data and make digital tools more useful to employees. A cost-effective Managed Private 5G service covered network design, construction and operations, with licensing support and a private 5G lab for connectivity testing and solution development.

Wide view of a coastal salt manufacturing complex with salt stockpiles, processing equipment, pipelines and workers, showing the scale of the connected industrial environment

650 tons

Daily salt output at Ako Plant.

Real-time data

Equipment readings uploaded at scale.

Four signals

Temperature, pressure, flow and vibration.

Second plant

Private 5G deployment expanded.

Two salt plant technicians inspect processing equipment with a rugged tablet and physical gauge beside stainless pipework and a salt conveyor

Wireless communication network supports high data volumes and improves digital experience (DX) for employees at Nihonkaisui

The transformation connects plant equipment and frontline teams through a managed private network designed for industrial reliability. It turns difficult-to-scale data collection into a practical operating capability, while giving employees a more direct role in the plant’s digital agenda.

From a difficult physical environment to connected, data-ready operations.

Objectives

Establish a wireless communication network able to advance factory DX without compromising stable salt production. The initiative needed to combine carrier-grade reliability with cost discipline, connect equipment across the large Ako site, support high-volume uploads of temperature, pressure, flow-rate and vibration data, and provide end-to-end support for the private 5G licensing process.

Opportunity

With private 5G deployed at a second plant and a dedicated lab available for connectivity testing and solution development, Nihonkaisui has a grounded path to explore additional factory DX use cases. The opportunity is to reuse what has been learned at Ako, validate each use case in a controlled environment and extend reliable wireless access where it creates clear operational value. The scale, roadmap and business case for any further rollout require confirmation.

Making industrial connectivity work across a large, corrosive site

The Ako Plant needed a wireless platform that could fit a physically demanding production environment and the economics of factory operations.

Key Challenges

A field engineer walks through a large salt production site with distant processing buildings, conveyors and storage areas, illustrating the challenge of sitewide wireless coverage

1. Sitewide reach:
The plant’s large footprint required coverage capable of connecting equipment and employees across dispersed operational areas.

A maintenance technician inspects salt residue and corrosion around industrial conduit and a sealed wireless enclosure in a salt processing plant

2. Corrosion-prone environment:
Salt production created corrosion risks that made the shift to wireless communication strategically important.

An operator checks equipment beside a moving salt conveyor during an evening production shift, representing the need for reliable connectivity during continuous operations

3. Operations-grade stability:
The network needed to support stable factory operations while carrying large volumes of equipment data in real time.

Network and plant specialists review a site plan while commissioning a private network cabinet beside salt storage and processing infrastructure

4. Licensing and cost balance:
The initiative had to combine carrier-grade reliability, cost-effectiveness and comprehensive support for private 5G licenses.

Solution

A managed private 5G service built around the plant

The delivery model brought together design, construction, connected devices, testing and ongoing operations, giving the plant one coordinated path from network planning to day-to-day use.

End-to-end network delivery

The Managed Private 5G service covered network design and construction, creating wireless coverage for the plant environment.

Industrial wireless access

Private 5G USB-type CPE and tablets connected equipment and employees, reducing dependence on fixed wired access in corrosion-prone areas.

Managed operational reliability

Ongoing network operations were included to support the stable service needed for factory production and real-time data uploads.

Licensing and lab support

The project provided support for private 5G licensing and access to a private 5G lab for connectivity testing and solution development.

Impact

More dependable paint quality decisions before release

According to the source, the client improved the overall efficiency of paint inspection and detected errors with greater accuracy. The catalogue also reports fewer vehicles being recalled from dealerships because of paint issues. No baseline, measured improvement, timeframe or attribution method is provided, so these outcomes should remain qualitative until the client validates the supporting evidence.

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