Automaker Unifies Plant Floor Alarm Notification Across 45+ Global Sites
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This leading automotive manufacturer’s relationship with SeQent dates back to the early 1990s, starting with one-way paging in North American truck assembly plants. By 2009, an internal audit found the company running 20+ different, disconnected notification systems globally — with no consistent way to route alarms, faults, or maintenance calls to the right person.
The fix was a multi-year initiative called the Next Generation Notification System (NGNS). After a competitive RFQ process, the manufacturer standardized on SeQent’s FirstPAGE platform — now deployed across 45+ plants in North and South America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, pulling alarms and events from GE CIMPLICITY, GEPICS, GSIP, and MAXIMO into a single notification architecture per plant.
When Sprint shut down the Nextel/iDEN network in 2013, SeQent worked directly with the manufacturer’s new communications vendors — including Motorola Solutions, where SeQent is an Application Development Partner — to ensure automated alarm messages kept flowing without interruption. The company also consolidated its legacy Andon hardware onto SeQent’s Marquee Manager, pushing real-time status to industrial LED displays plant-wide.
As one former Director of CCRW put it: a single robot fault in Body in White production can halt final assembly — and getting the right alert to the right person, on their preferred device, is what keeps that risk contained.
Download the full case study to see:
- How 20+ fragmented notification systems were consolidated into one standard architecture
- The migration path from Nextel/iDEN to Motorola MOTORBO™
- How alarms from CIMPLICITY, GEPICS, and MAXIMO route through a single per-plant notification server
