_Migration, maintenance, and support for Cloud-based system

Summary

Oerlikon is a leading multinational provider of surface technology. The TT PSC team provided the company with a solution that reduced operating costs, standardized processes, and improved their cloud-based infrastructure.

Founded in 1906, the company offers customers and business partners the widest possible range of intelligent, innovative, and efficient surface treatment technologies, in-house manufacturing machines, and additive manufacturing. Oerlikon reached sales of 2.7 billion Swiss francs in 2023 and currently employs more than 12,000 people in 58 countries.

Business challenges

• High operating costs of cloud applications.
• Increased application maintenance costs due to incomplete migrations.
• Inconsistencies in the system and in resource management.

Solution

• Identification of all system components of products and applications.
• Assignment and qualification of results and prioritization of relevance.
• Contextualization of system components.
• Establishment of guidelines for security, access, storage, and processing, as well as backup protocols, applied to the application environment.
• Disabling non-essential system components and services.
• Migration of components to alternative service levels or policy-compliant redundancy levels.

Results

• Reduced operating costs and achieved a return on investment in the shortest possible time.
• Decreased maintenance efforts and improved component maintenance.
• Enhanced system transparency.
• Developed a plan for future application development.

TT PSC is the right systems integrator for us.

Both for new solutions, as well as for the reorganisation of the existing system environment and the associated reduction in operational costs. As a result, we now have a transparent application environment in the cloud (AWS) that will be easier to maintain and scale in the future.

Rouven BilgeriDigital Applications ManagerOerlikon