Case Study: Faurecia achieves reduced unplanned downtime and improved product quality with Cloudera

Faurecia Reducing Manufacturing Costs and Improving Product Quality with IoT Analytics

Faurecia, a tier‑one automotive supplier headquartered in Nanterre, France with more than 300 sites worldwide, needed to maximize production uptime and reduce manufacturing defects but found its relational databases couldn’t scale for real‑time data from connected machines and sensors. The company required a way to ingest and analyze high‑frequency IoT data to gain manufacturing intelligence and predictive insights.

Partnering with Cloudera, Faurecia built an enterprise IoT data hub that unifies 300+ sensor feeds, machine telemetry and production/quality data using a modern data platform (Cloudera Enterprise with Apache Spark and Kafka). The solution enables real‑time monitoring and predictive maintenance, cutting unplanned downtime and maintenance costs, improving product quality toward zero‑defect goals, and serving as the foundation for a corporate data lake across operations.

Faurecia

Jose Gascon

Manager, Core Systems