Case Study: SMC Corporation achieves a single source of truth and real-time analytics with Qlik

SMC puts data at its fingertips Manufacturing automation giant takes data analysis to new levels

SMC Corporation of America, the North American arm of Japan-based SMC and a global leader in pneumatic components for industrial automation, was hampered by fragmented and aging data across multiple systems. Analysts spent excessive time pulling and reconciling manual reports from different databases, spreadsheets and files, leading to inconsistent reporting and slow, siloed decision-making despite strong market demand and growth goals.

After a one-month pilot SMC deployed the Qlik Analytics Platform integrated with its Sugar CRM to create a single source of truth. Qlik consolidated data from diverse sources (including PDFs), enabled analysts to build and deploy apps without heavy IT support, and scaled to thousands of users—delivering cost-effective, near‑real‑time insights that streamlined reporting, revealed sales and logistics trends, and supported analysis across two million part numbers.

SMC Corporation

Donny Nguyen

Vice-President