Footwear Manufacturer in India Relaxo Deploys Qsan

Company Biography
Incorporated in 1984, Relaxo Footwears Limited is the largest footwear manufacturer in India that has served the nation since 4 decades ago, and is ranked amongst the top 500 most valuable companies.

Footwear Manufacturer In India Relaxo Deploys Qsan

As a Fortune 500 (India) company with quality products and affordable prices, it manufactures slippers, sandals, sports, and casual shoes. Its most popular brands – Relaxo, Sparx, Flite & Bahamas are leaders in their spaces.

Relaxo, a brand renowned for its rubber slippers, is the most versatile footwear for all segments of society while Flite offers a popular range of fashionable and semi- formal slippers. Sparx reflects the attitude, style, dynamism and spirit of young India and offers a range of shoes, including sports shoes, sandals and slippers, while Bahamas provides a colorful selection of casual flip flops which exude the freedom, fun and modernity of youth. Having a pan India distribution footprint, Relaxo also operates a 350+ network of own retail outlets, with availability on all major e-commerce portals as well.

Challenge
With more than 8 manufacturing facilities harboring the capacity to produce ~7.5 Lac pair/day cross India, Relaxo continuously focuses on optimizing their operations for faster and more efficient production of quality products. Such manufacturing excellence supports Relaxo’s position in the market. Manufacturing execution systems (MES) have been playing a key role in this optimization to track and document the transformation of raw materials to finished goods. MES provides information that help manufacturing decision makers understand how current conditions on the plant floor can be optimized to improve production output. It works as a real time monitoring system to enable control of multiple elements of the production process (e.g. inputs, personnel, machines and support services).

As a result, tones of data are generated every day from the end points deployed throughout the production process. The Relaxo IT team needs to find a new storage solution to replace their legacy equipment and manage growing data from manufacturing facilities to ensure data will always be readily available.

“We need to store backup of around 1,000 end points on 10 different locations, and replicate backed up data to central location in HQ for taping on external media“, said Ajay Tyagi, GM of IT.

Solution:

After comparing different solutions and conducting a thorough evaluation, Relaxo decided to procure 11 units of Qsan XCubeNAS to install at different locations. XN8008R was installed in those plants and XN8012R with higher capacity was installed at HQ. Each XCubeNAS unit came with built-in backup software (Xreplicator) for 100 end points as well as XMirror supporting real-time synchronization cross multple Qsan NAS units at different locations.

At the end of each day, when the backup tasks of end points were completed in each XN8008R, the backed up data would be replicated to XN8012R at HQ immediately. Qsan and its channel partner in India, Nubigo Technologies Pvt Limited, worked as a team and offered support during the installation.

Footwear Manufacturer In India Relaxo Deploys Qsan Topology

Benefits
XCubeNAS is enterprise-features inclusive and has high-quality product design. The built-in XReplicator (client backup software) and XMirror (remote replication software) are features for any organization to achieve solid backup.

“In a word, we successfully completed this project and protected data for more than a thousand end devices within the strict budget,” said Tyagi.

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