Case Study: Bonfiglioli achieves near-real-time, data-driven manufacturing with Snowflake

Italian Engineering Group Bonfiglioli Unlocks Data-Driven Manufacturing With Snowflake

Bonfiglioli, a multinational Italian engineering group that designs and manufactures gear motors and drive systems, was struggling with an on‑premises data warehouse that couldn’t handle concurrent access to more than 2,000 reports. Unpredictable load and extraction times—sometimes causing lengthy delays—blocked self‑service analytics and the company’s ambition to leverage growing factory and IoT data for new service lines.

Working with partner SDG, Bonfiglioli migrated to the Snowflake Data Cloud (POC on Azure then full migration), cutting data load times by 40% and extraction times by 25%, and delivering near‑real‑time, mobile executive dashboards and 2,000+ BI reports with negligible lag. The move brought stable peak‑time performance, enabled broader self‑service analytics, and created a cloud‑agnostic foundation to exploit IoT data and develop new data‑driven business offerings.

Bonfiglioli

Gabriele Zennaro

Corporate IT Manager