“ With changes made over the last year , we ’ re ready to pivot into fully becoming a globally operating company ”
— Michael Loggins , Global Vice President , IT , SMC Corporation of America
The streamlining of processes through automation offers enormous benefits both to SMC and its customers , with faster delivery and the labour saved for its workforce being crucial . The core of the transformation , Loggins says , is SMC ’ s people . “ Aptitude is important but attitude is critical ,” he says and , as drivers of the transformation on the ground , SMC ’ s staff have been rewarded with an increase in knowledge-based tasks in tandem with the reduction of repetitive ones , and positive shifts in work-life
LUCIDIA IT AND DELL
“ Lucidia IT and Dell have been our infrastructure partners for around 10 years , and over the last three years they ’ ve been integral to designing and building our next generation end user compute platforms in the US and now , of course , globally . We ’ re in the process of building data centres in Europe and we ’ re in the architecture and design phase for Asia , and both Lucidia and Dell have done a great job of partnering with our teams to make sure they deliver exactly what we need .”
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