Nexans (SAP Customer) and Ffly4u (Industrial Iot Services Provider) Company Information

SAP® Innovation Awards 2020 Entry Pitch Deck Creation of a bunch of new KPIs for construction sites by connecting energy cables and fiber wire drums thanks to latest IOT technologies. Nexans (SAP customer) and ffly4u (Industrial IoT services provider) Company Information

Headquarters Paris, La Defense Industry Cable industry Web site nexans.com Our Company

Nexans brings energy to life through an extensive range of advanced cabling systems, solutions and innovative services. For over 120 years, Nexans has been providing customers with cutting-edge cabling infrastructure for power and data transmission. Today, beyond cables, the Group advises customers and designs solutions and services that maximize performance and efficiency of their projects in four main business areas: Building & Territories (including utilities, e-mobility), High Voltage & Projects (covering offshore wind farms, submarine interconnections, land high voltage), Telecom & Data (covering data transmission, telecom networks, hyperscale data centers, LAN), and Industry & Solutions (including renewables, transportation, Oil & Gas, automation, and others).

Corporate Social Responsibility is a guiding principle of Nexans’ business activities and internal practices. In 2013, Nexans became the first cable player to create a Foundation supporting sustainable initiatives bringing access to energy to disadvantaged communities worldwide.

Nexans employs nearly 27,000 people and has an industrial footprint in 34 countries and commercial activities worldwide. In 2018, the Group generated 6.5 billion euros in sales. Nexans is listed on Euronext Paris, compartment A. For more information, please consult: www.nexans.com Our Connected Drums offer

Nexans was the first cable manufacturer in the world to equip its cables drums with tiny battery powered sensors to locate the drums via IOT and GPS technologies. These sensors are connected to an IOT platform developped and maintained by Nexans to help its worldwide customers locate their assets to avoid theft and loss, improve remote stocks follow up and reduce immobilitsation time. This IOT platform is interfaced with both Nexans SAP systems (Crossway,Cableway) to let its customers locate their drums but also follow the products and stocks in real time.

More than 7000 assets are connected via this technology in 8 countries. More information there: https://youtu.be/GaQcbPgj-5A

Challenge Our new sensor-based service is In order to save costs and create new KPIs for better management of Nexans’ customers working site, Nexans taking cable drum fleet tracking and and ffly4u deployed a tracking and management service that let Nexans’s customers know the exact location of management to the next level, with their drums but also let them know the remaining length on each drum and stocks in real time. cost savings of 20 percent easily achievable for MV drums. And if rolled out to high voltage drums Solution that can cost 10 times as much, the Over 7000 Nexans connected cable drums are already deployed in 8 countries. The results are: Cost savings potential savings could be huge. due to faster relocation of cable drums /Much better management of the working site /Traceability to ensure that the right cable is being used at the right location / Leftover cables re-used for other projects/Reduction of While drums are an immediate immobilization time. objective, the wireless tracking technology could have many other Outcome applications for electrical ffly4u devices are connected to Sigfox or LoRa network and send data to a specific IOT platform interfaced with infrastructure such as transformers Nexans SAP systems. Thanks to AI / Machine Learning processes, the devices make the difference between and generators. This is a very ,different phases of life of the drum: rolling, unwinding, rewinding, or moving on a truck that is automatically important example of our translated into remaining length by specific algorithms on Nexans platform. commitment to extending Nexans’ customer offering beyond supplying cables to providing a complete Increase of the Reduction of management service.” Reduction of efficiency of rotation cycle cables drums working site (the time it takes Olivier PINTO Nexans Services and theft and loss 50% management, 90% 25% to return a drum Systems Group Director cases (residual length). back to Nexans)

ffly4u (www.ffly4u.com)

Industrial IoT services provider, “Edge AI Low Power®” proprietary technology

“The Internet of Things is now starting to make a major contribution across all aspect of industry. And as this project with Nexans shows, smart thinking allied to SAP cloud- based solutions and to embedded AI/ Machine Learning in the device can take even the most basic logistics operation such as cable drum management to the next level. Furthermore, it shows the capacity of ffly4u solutions to create massive business value and in fine customer value based on Supply Chains data” said Olivier Pages, CEO of ffly4u ([email protected]).

© 2019 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 4 Business Challenges and Objectives Nexans' strategy to combine digital services and onboard devices in their drums required several steps: • On a technical level: development of the device, both in terms of overall dimensions, but also in terms of information acquisition, in particular computation of residual length (identification of relevant number of turns and transformation into linear meters for all cable and drums types). • Integration of these devices in the drums without impacting the global production flows. • In term of data collection: Identification of key data and interfaces developpements with main Nexans IS systems (SAP) • In terms of data restitution: design and development of Users interfaces in the most ergonomic way to cover the major KPIs of the profession. • In term of business development and services deployment: evangelization of the market to convince Nexans customers of the added value of this technology and make it a "must have" in the sector.

Creation of a new KPI: remaining cable length on a drum on a construction site is a real KPI allowing to:

• Monitor the progress of the construction site (number of meters unrolled, etc.).

• Optimize the collection of empty or partially empty drums and, in the latter case, be able to reallocate the residual lengths on another construction site.....

This new KPI creates even more business value for the cable industry, from the producer to its customer until the end user.

Nexans’ Connected Drum solution uses 21st century technologies to solve a key efficiency issue in the cable market. DSOs (Energy Distribution Services Operators), TSO (Energy Transport Services Operators) or telecom operators can loose hundreds of thousands of euros a year due to the lack of visibility on their drums scattered across construction sites or remote storage areas. Due to complex supply chain processes and high value cables (copper), cables and drums are frequently lost, stolen or left idle on sites. It is also challenging for DSOs to monitor their stocks across multiple remote storage sites.

Nexans worked with ffly4u, IoT industrial specialist, to increase the value in the cable sector by providing strong KPI which allows to monitor industrial activities in real time through: ✓ Drums geolocation ✓ Automatic calculation of the residual cable length thanks to embedded Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technologies.

Results: ✓ 20% reduction of relocation logistic costs of leftover cables ✓ 50% increase of the efficiency of working site management, (residual length). ✓ 90% reduction of drums theft and losses cases ✓ 25% reduction of rotation cycles time and reduction of immobilisation time. Leading to reduced renting costs of the drums for the customers and improved production time for Nexans. ✓ Improved traceability to ensure that the right cable is being used at the right location. Alert system to monitor on-site tasks, such as deliveries or pickup. . ✓ Cost savings for Nexans and its customers due to faster relocation of cable drums.

Business or Social IT Human Empowerment

• Estimates show that the Connected Moving from a classical manufacturing Solutions designed to deliver more value Drum technology reduces the rotation business model (produce and sell for the Group’s customers by streamlining cycle (the time it takes to return a drum cable/fiber wire) to a new business model all cable-related activities of their projects. back to Nexans) by more than 25 including the valorisation of the data percent - improving efficiency for both generated by Nexans IT infrastructure. Huge opportunity given to operational team customers and Nexans. on site to facilitate the ground work an Leveraging latest IOT technologies to remote storage follow up • Create new KPIs for the management of improve productions flows and provide new construction site. At the end of day, services to customers Provide real time information to operators Nexans customers can challenge their on site to control their products an updated sub contactors on site by having a clear Providing a unique platform to all the length thanks to easy to use mobile understanding of the work done during stackeholders in the drums management applications. the day (unwound length) process.

• Improve environnemental impact reducing number of lost drums (reducing the number of wooden drums to produce) and improving the drums collection and related carbon impact (improvment of transports flows/ transport on trucks)

Deployment status Live

Date 30/08/2018 Number of users 50

SAP technologies used: Deployment status SAP product (live or proof of concept [POC]) Contribution to project

Interface with logistic process (outbound deliveries) 1 SAP HANA Platform Live Interface to manage drum status inside SAP (In/Out Nexans stock)

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The following advanced technologies were part of the project. Technology or use case Yes or No Contribution to project

1 3D printing NO

2 Blockchain NO

The base of this solution developed by ffly4u (device and IoT network) and deployed by Nexans (Nexans developed its own 3 Internet of Things (IoT) YES IOT platform based on Microsoft Azure IOT and linked to Nexans SAP systems)

Key technology for creation of complex data (residual length of Machine learning or AI embedded in cable) making the difference between different phases of life of 4 YES the device the drums : winding, unwinding, rolling, moving in a truck (transit detection). Autonomy (devices’ batteries) greater than 6 years.

5 Conversational AI NO

6 Robotic process automation NO

7 Data anonymization NO

We started the connected drums solution 3 years ago with a Proof Of Concept on 80 drums in SW of France with the main French DSO. We now have more than 7000 in 8 countries on all the continents ! Nexans and ffly4u leveraged latest IoT technologies to help Nexans customers follow their stocks in real time. A nice evolution from an idea to an industrial solution

We will do it all over the world by introducing 5G communication in the next generation of devices.

More info there: https://youtu.be/GaQcbPgj-5A