Case Study: Manz accelerates Industry 4.0 innovation by outsourcing network management with HPE Aruba Networking

Engineering specialist hands off network service management to accelerate innovation

Manz AG, a German engineering specialist that builds production-line machinery for global manufacturers, needed to overhaul an increasingly mission-critical network across sites in Germany, Europe and Asia. With more than 50 VLANs, distributed production facilities and a requirement for secure, highly stable connectivity to support Industry 4.0 initiatives, the company wanted to outsource non‑core network operations so internal teams could focus on innovation.

Manz leased a private‑cloud managed service from Pronexon built on Aruba technology—Aruba Central, ClearPass, CX core switches and Wi‑Fi 6 AP‑515s—under a five‑year global contract. The deployment delivered unified network access control, role‑based segmentation, full redundancy and cloud‑native monitoring, producing consistent global performance and stronger security, reducing operational burden, meeting SLAs and freeing resources to accelerate its Factory of the Future and other innovation projects.

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Martin Link

Vice President of It Services