Scania Has a Stand-Up Meeting on the Shopfloor
INDUSTRY: VEHICLE PRODUCTION
Scania has a stand-up meeting on the shopfloor The Swedish truck manufacturer, Scania, has a workforce of There's no about 39,000 employees and operations in more than 100 countries. time for tech- "Efficient virtual meetings are important to our way of working, nical problems in both our production processes and other business activities. – everything Our demands for performance and quality are therefore high when it comes to communication solutions," says Robert Bei- “ should just ron, Global Manager for Scania's telephony services. work.
The telephony system that Scania has decentralised. Key to this is ensuring various departments and plants around installed in Sweden and several other that everyone is well informed, which the world," Robert Beiron explains. European countries has been complete- is why we have special meeting rooms ly IP-based for some time now. in the production facilities equipped In production areas and offices "The Scania Production System, with Konftel conference phones and Scania's production areas and office which can be compared with the Lean microphones suspended from the ceil- spaces have been designed to enable principles, means that we are continu- ings. This allows us to hold quick, daily, meetings to be conducted simply and ously working towards the elimination stand-up meetings where we can bring efficiently. 40 per cent of the 11,000 of waste and building an approach each other up to speed on what's hap- people employed at Södertälje work in to accountability that is smart and pening in the facility and between the areas other than actual production. "Konftel has a versatile range of models that are a good match for our IP-based telepho- ny system." Robert Beiron, Global Manager for Scania's telephony services.
"We work in open-plan offices with "The whole point is being able to share cient and effective meetings are part of access to lots of quiet rooms and small documents. Discussing a presentation everyday life for most people at Scania. and large conference rooms where we or document is much simpler when Our technological solutions are highly can hold meetings. These are equipped everyone is looking at the same thing. streamlined and we give thorough with Konftel devices, which means you However, we rarely use the camera consideration to changes before imple- can launch straight into a remote meet- to transmit live images in real time. It mentation. There's no time for technical ing with as many attendees as you like. uses too much bandwidth and slows problems. We expect everything to work I've no idea how many remote meetings the overall transmission speed. Sitting exactly as it should when the opera- take place every day, but as they are an looking at one another during a meeting tors push the button," Robert Beiron integral part of Scania's way of working, doesn't serve much of a practical pur- comments. they're going on pretty much all the pose either." time. We use different models of Konftel conference phones based on local Good audio quality is important needs," Robert Beiron says. A Konftel is connected during Lync meetings to enhance the quality of the About Scania Lync meetings and shared documents audio. Meetings with attendees from Scania was founded in 1891 and is one Scania has a strict travel policy. Alterna- Hong Kong, Kolar in India and Söder- of the world's leading manufacturers of heavy trucks. Scania is represented on tives to travel must be used first. As well tälje in Sweden, for example, can pose all continents. The company has some as the cost-saving aspects, there are some linguistic challenges and that's 39,000 employees across the world. Its benefits to employees as they are not why it's extremely important to ensure largest facilities are located at Södertälje wasting time travelling and are closer to superior audio quality. Remote meetings (Sweden) and São Bernardo do Campo home at the end of the day. via Lync can be compared to regular (Brazil). Scania is best known for its heavy trucks weighing over 16 tonnes. It also Use of Lync for meetings is rapidly conference telephone meetings, plus manufactures buses and marine and in- growing. There is less risk of misun- you have the computer as a fast source dustrial engines, and provides service and derstanding if the image on everyone's of images. financing solutions. screen is the same. "In conclusion, you could say that effi- The company's head office and devel- opment centre are located in Södertälje. Scania is a public limited company whose Equipment: Important to Scania: shares are listed on the Stockholm Stock • IP-based telephony (Sweden and • Simple integration between IP sys- Exchange. It has production facilities in parts of Europe) tems and other equipment Sweden (Södertälje, Oskarshamn, Luleå) and Argentina. Its truck assembly plants • Konftel 55W, Konftel 300, 300M and • Quick start-up and easy operation are located in Södertälje, Angers (France), 300IP (several hundred) • Superior audio quality because of Zwolle (the Netherlands), St Petersburg • Mobile phones, system phones and large distances and different l (Russia) and São Bernardo do Campo computers (with Lync) anguages (Brazil). • Ability to share technical specifica- For more information, please visit: tions and other documents www.scania.com
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