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How openthinclient simplifies IT in RONAL production

🚧 Initial situation and challenges

In der Produktion der RONAL GROUP liefen zahlreiche industrietaugliche Terminals, die vor allem eine einzige Anwendung benötigen: die IBM-i-Emulation bzw. eine interne Web-Applikation.Trotz des geringen Funktionsumfangs war auf jedem Terminal ein vollwertiges Windows-Betriebssystem installiert (XP bis 10). Dies brachte:

  • unnecessary functions (e.g. games such as Solitaire)
  • long provisioning times: Image installation & final configuration took ≈ 4 hours per device
  • High maintenance and security effort (group policies, USB restrictions, start menu customizations)
The goal of Björn Drescher's IT team: a lean, secure and easy-to-maintain solution solution that is limited to what is necessary and minimizes downtime.

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⚙ ️ Implementation with openthinclient 

The first step was to examine various thin client concepts and providers. The choice fell on openthinclient, as this solution fulfilled several key requirements:

- PXE boot, automatic app launches, quick swap (< 5 min.)
- Central control in kiosk mode
- Continued use of robust Hematec terminals (-20 °C to +60 °C)

RONALGROUP Terminal 2

💡 Technical requirements

All technical requirements placed on an industrial IT system could be implemented.

- Fast deployment: network boot via PXE, central config management
- High security: locked USB interfaces, read-only OS
- Minimal maintenance: no local updates necessary, replacement within minutes.
- Scalability: DE, MX, CZ, PL, other plants possible

🎯 Conclusion and feedback

Its use is so convincing that openthinclient has now been defined as the company-wide standard for production environments.

- Production availability increases significantly; failure and downtime costs are reduced.
- Administration effort reduced to a minimum: central console instead of manual client maintenance
- Improved IT security: no superfluous programs, no data extractions via USB.
- Employee focus on core activities - no more „passing the time“ at the terminal.
- solution has proven its worth and has been established as the Group-wide standard.

„Suppose a terminal breaks down in production today. Then I go to the warehouse, get a new one... make an IP reservation on the DHCP and create it in the openthinclient manager. All this takes about 5 minutes with booting and walking, then the colleague can continue his work. With our previous Windows solution, installing the image alone took around four hours.“

Fabian Burkhart - Administrator

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