wiredinUSA January 2015

As a part of its group-wide switchover to SAP’s ERP system, US cable manufacturer Southwire will install Advaris Cable MES. In August the manufacturing execution system by Advaris Informations systeme GmbH went live in the first Southwire cable factory in Mineral Wells, Texas, where Southwire produces industrial cables. Advaris MES is a core component of Advaris Cable, an integrated operations management system for length-based manufacturers. The installation of Advaris Cable MES is a pilot project for the subsequent installation in all of Southwire’s cable plants. Installationwasprecededbyanexhaustive evaluation of relevant MES systems. One decisive factor in favor of the system developer was its specific orientation to the cable and wire industry. Functions covered by Advaris Cable MES include detailed production scheduling, with the target criteria of meeting deadlines and minimizing setup times. Streamlining production

Subsea Sea Lion

Alcatel-Lucent Finnish government-owned venture Cinia Group will deploy an undersea cable system to provide the first direct cable link between the Nordic region and continental Europe. The project, named Sea Lion, calls for the deployment of a new 100G system that will span over 1,100km from Helsinki in Finland, to the Rostock-Ribnitz area in Germany. Completion is expected in early 2016. Designed with an ultimate capacity of 15Tbit/s, Sea Lion will play a critical role in strengthening the provision of reliable and secure ultra-broadband connectivity for cloud and data center applications. The data will be transported across the country through the Finnish fiber optic network running along the national rail infrastructure. Jukka-Pekka Joensuu, executive vice- president of the Cinia Group, said: “Broadband connectivity is a major growth opportunity for the foreseeable future and the development of a robust telecommunication infrastructure is vital." PhilippeDumont,presidentofAlcatel-Lucent submarinenetworks, said: “Wearedelighted to support the CiniaGroup in its rollout of this new cable system, which will be a catalyst to strengthen global digital connectivity.” and the

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