Canaan Factory Limited
Canaan Factory Limited is a Mid Sized Corporation in Kenya with over 100 employees and a part of the Canaan Group of Companies. They are a milk processing factory producing the brand Alfresh milk and dairy products. Being part of a conglomerate, CFL as we will refer to it going forward, had their pre-defined design of management and operation. They wanted several Turnkey ICT Infrastructure solution that would help in ensuring smooth running of the company with minimal work force and supervision.
Challenge
CFL was looking for an economical way to integrate turnkey ICT infrastructure solution in the factory. They needed to have all their eyes open once milk production commenced. Also, they needed to collaborate with the directors, overseas suppliers and overseas branches in 6 African countries and USA. They sort for an efficient easy to use telephony system and high speed internet connection for overall running, processing and centralized management of all systems
in-house. All these had to be accomplished within budget and professional in deployment and service.
Turnkey ICT Infrastructure Solution
In the over 7-acre property, Talinda deployed infrastructure in the most sensitive and critical locations. We put up over 20 indoor access points to broadcast High Speed internet throughout the company! The wireless access points are at the core of all the systems at CFL from Surveillance to Processing to Communication.
There are more than 30 IP phones on site that have reduced movement across departments and decreased costs on communication saving CFL thousands of shillings. With wireless IP Phones the company was able to reduce costs of cabling tenfold with the phones connecting over the Internet Protocol. Now if they need to add more phones we just configure and add on with no changes in the infrastructure.
To maximize the safety of the site, reduce instances of theft and external intruders, the compound is covered with IP Cameras. Multiple Indoor and Outdoor cameras can be seen with high risk areas like the diesel underground tank, boilers, perimeter wall, processing area and warehouse taking most of the cameras. We deployed PTZ cameras that help give a 360 degree view of over 100m radius and several NVRs that monitor and record all the happenings of the company.
In the board room in which the company does Video Conferencing we installed the Logitech conferencing kit. The solution was simple, easy to collaborate and cost effective way to conduct group meetings over Skype for Business.
Result
Talinda East Africa helped Canaan Factory Limited turn around Mid Sized Company to International Class Standards professionally, simply and economically. Now the company enjoys easier meetings with Logitech Video Collaboration, cheaper clearer communication with IP Phones and 24-hour IP Security Surveillance with modern IP Cameras. All the systems run uninterrupted over High speed Wi-Fi connectivity through Indoor and Outdoor Access points.
As a plus to the CFL, we deployed multiple data points from the gate, weigh bridge and all departments to allow staff to enjoy plug and play capabilities of their IP devices. Moving from point A to B is now as easy as 1,2,3.