The Recipe for Success!
Interview with our CEO Eng. Gerardo Fabrizio conducted by TV del Lavoro Business24.
Open Data srl is a company in Argelato, in the province of Bologna, which develops high-performance software. It is the result of the passion for computer science of its founder, Gerardo Fabrizio.
After graduating in Electronic Engineering at the University of Bologna, together with some of his university colleagues, he decided to create a real team of software developers.
Origins and First Projects.
At the beginning of the 1990s, the company created the first information systems to control the factory and the initial project was carried out within a large Bolognese company that still produces locks and safes today. At the time it was very innovative because it was the first time that a real-time production control monitoring was inserted in a factory. In a short time Open Data has evolved and today is known on the international market as a software house that realizes OPERA, a platform that develops MES systems that serve precisely to allow partners to design a high-performance technological factory, 4.0. In fact, MES systems, an acronym for Manufacturing Execution System, are created for the management of the industry, transforming it from traditional to digital with an average performance improvement of 30%: with the same resources, much more is therefore produced and the results are of a much higher quality.
The Metalworking sector: The Lion’s share
Customers are the most technologically advanced companies and in this the metalworking sector plays the lion’s share. Immediately after comes that of plastic, rubber, wood and even pharmaceuticals. In short, Open Data operates over a wide range, as long as there is obviously a factory. Europe is certainly at the forefront of Industry 4.0, with Italy and Germany leading the way.
How to cope with the Crisis
The 2008 crisis did not weaken it, but strengthened it because if in Italy the economy was falling apart, Open Data had the readiness and courage to come forward in the foreign market, becoming a consulting company of information programs to a real software house, leader on the international market of MES systems. The most popular countries were Central Europe, the United States, China, Mexico, Russia, all those areas with the highest industrial density.
Structure of the company Open Data srl
The company boasts two teams: there are those who create the product and those who instead deal with the distribution network and train those who will then have to use it. There is a development team that creates the product and a delivery team that deals with the development of the distribution network and its technical training to carry out MES projects around the world. The true secret of Open Data is to have focused on a single product, a WORK, to have taken it to its highest levels and to have internationalized it.
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