SMC Corporation Featured in Manufacturing Global - July 2020

SMC Corporation Attentive to The Local and Operating at The Global

Noblesville, IN – July 7, 2020

SMC Corporation of America’s Michael Loggins, Global VP of IT talks with Manufacturing Global magazine on the importance of continuously staying ahead of the operational and IT demands of a global manufacturer as their localized strategies change to meet the needs of their local customers.

As the world’s leader in pneumatics and factory automation, SMC Corporation has presence in 83 industrialized countries and regions with 560 services locations and 30 production facilities spread out throughout the globe. Integrating critical data and information in a timely manner across all these geographic locations can be extraordinarily challenging.

Michael Loggins explains, “(t)he responsibility we’ve taken in IT is to build the infrastructure on technological, operational, staff, policy and procedural levels; whatever it takes from an IT standpoint to ensure we can share data and work with each other geographic boundaries in a productive manner.”

To read the full article (page 134)

Link: https://www.manufacturingglobal.com/magazine/july-2020 

About SMC Corporation of America

SMC Corporation of America is headquartered at 10100 SMC Boulevard, Noblesville, Indiana 46060, and is a subsidiary of SMC Corporation in Japan. SMC Corporation is the world’s largest pneumatics company dedicated to factory automation with technical development centers in Japan, the U.S., Europe and China.

There are 26 sales offices in the United States and 5 sales offices in Canada supported by domestic engineering, manufacturing and inventory located in Noblesville, Indiana.