Solutions for the Manufacturing Industry
Interflex provides comprehensive solutions for access control, visitor management, time recording, and personnel scheduling – specifically tailored to the needs of the manufacturing industry.
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The manufacturing industry is one of Germany’s most important sectors. At the same time, it is a prime target for cyberattacks, industrial espionage, and physical sabotage. Protecting production facilities, intellectual property, and employees is essential. Automation and digitalization of processes, along with the efficient use of human resources, form the foundation for growth and competitiveness.
Protection and Efficiency: Why Comprehensive Solutions Are Essential
Manufacturing companies operate production-related sites with heightened security requirements. Access to sensitive areas such as development departments, machine controls, or storage zones must be reliably secured – to protect intellectual property and equipment, and to comply with legal standards such as ISO 27001, ISO 45001, or NIS2. Access control must be flexible, scalable, and work across multiple locations – while meeting current technological standards. The challenge lies in combining security and efficiency within a single system.
Accurate and legally compliant time recording and personnel scheduling contribute significantly to greater efficiency in manufacturing companies. Resources are used optimally, staff shortages are bridged flexibly, and employees are actively involved in planning processes. Personnel scheduling should take qualifications and availability into account to ensure reliable shift coverage and strengthen employee retention.
Companies in the automotive, chemical and pharmaceutical industries, aerospace, and food and beverage production are also part of the manufacturing sector. They face similar requirements for access control, time management, and security systems.
Companies in the industry
| Industry | Services |
|---|---|
| Mechanical and Plant Engineering (manufacturers of production machinery, robotics, machine tools): | Industrial machinery development and manufacturing, Automation and robotics solutions, Service, maintenance, and retrofit |
| Electrical Engineering and Electronics Manufacturing (producers of semiconductors, circuit boards, sensors): | Electronics production and microcomponent manufacturing, Testing and quality assurance, Development of sensor and control technologies |
| Metal Processing and Steel Industry (foundries, rolling mills, forges): | Primary and secondary metal processing, Shaping and surface finishing, Materials testing and recycling |
| Textile and Apparel Industry (manufacturers of fabrics, clothing, technical textiles): | Textile production and garment manufacturing, Technical textiles for industry and healthcare, Design, finishing, and sustainability |
| Plastics Processing (producers of plastic components for automotive, medical technology, packaging): | Shaping through injection molding and extrusion, Product development and toolmaking, Recycling and material optimization |
How Interflex Solutions Support Your Requirements
As a long-standing partner of leading companies in the manufacturing industry, we understand their specific challenges. Our comprehensive solutions help you implement a flexible system tailored precisely to your needs.
Security for Sensitive Areas:
With the IF-6040 system, access rights can be precisely managed – based on roles, locations, and security zones. This ensures that access to critical areas such as development departments or machine controls remains protected, while supporting compliance with regulatory requirements.
Efficient Processes Instead of Manual Administration:
Access rights, visitor badges, and time data are centrally managed and consolidated on a single software platform. This simplifies and optimizes operational workflows, saves time, and increases transparency – a clear benefit for HR, IT, facility management, and security teams.
Transparent Time Recording for Informed Decisions:
Electronic time recording via Interflex terminals, web interface, and the native TeamTime app provides reliable data for controlling, cost management, and personnel scheduling. When integrated with SAP, recorded working hours are seamlessly transferred to ERP or payroll systems, creating a solid foundation for controlling and resource planning.
Efficient Shift Planning:
Shifts can be scheduled in IF-6040 according to demand – taking availability and qualifications into account. This increases productivity, flexibility, and employee satisfaction.
Integrated Solutions for Future-Readiness:
Access control, visitor management, and time management work seamlessly together and can be flexibly expanded. This creates a holistic workforce management system that not only enhances security but also actively supports the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry.
Solutions with Interflex –
Your All-in-One System for Various Use Cases:
Protection of Sensitive Machinery and Intellectual Property
Manufacturing companies must reliably protect development areas and machine zones from unauthorized access – to safeguard intellectual property and prevent sabotage or theft.
Suitable Solution:
- Targeted Access Control: With the IF-6040 system, access rights for skilled personnel can be assigned, managed, and logged based on roles, time schedules, and audit requirements – even in shift operations and temporary employment scenarios.
- Biometric Security: Iris, facial, hand vein, or fingerprint scanners secure highly sensitive areas such as cleanrooms or development environments.
- Online Access Terminals and Locking Components: Modern wired access terminals at high-traffic entry points enable effective door status monitoring and detect intrusion or tampering attempts. Wireless components, on the other hand, can be installed with minimal effort and are ideal for less frequently used doors – providing a perfect replacement for physical keys.
- Advanced Identification Media: Personalized RFID-based badges using LEGIC advant or Mifare DESFire EV3 represent the latest in secure identification technology. For added protection, solutions can be enhanced with PIN entry at access terminals. Modern options like the Interflex Key App offer high security through multi-factor authentication on smartphones.
Your Advantages:
- Maximum security for critical production areas.
- Protection of trade secrets and intellectual property.
- Audit-proof logging of all access movements for compliance and security regulations.
- Integration with existing systems such as video surveillance or building management.
- Flexible, scalable security architecture for both physical and digital requirements.
Control Visitors Safely
A large number of service providers, suppliers, and guests enter the premises of manufacturing companies every day. Fast and secure registration and targeted access control are essential to avoid disrupting operations while maintaining safety standards.
Suitable Solutions:
- Control Visitors in a Targeted Way: With the visitor management module of IF-6040, visitor processes can be securely and automatically controlled, and access rights for external persons clearly defined. Safety briefings are documented. Digital self-service solutions relieve reception staff and speed up registration – without compromising security.
- Access Control for Service Providers: Service providers who work regularly can register their employees themselves via a portal and schedule maintenance and repair work. This saves time, reduces errors, and ensures full transparency – even for short-term needs.
- Monitor Access Roads: Vehicle access rights for external vehicles can be controlled via license plate recognition. Barriers open only for registered vehicles, and parking spaces are specifically assigned – for more control and less manual effort.
- Safety in Emergencies: Every minute counts in an emergency. The evacuation management provides a real-time overview of all present persons – including visitors. This allows evacuations to be coordinated quickly and in a targeted manner.
Your Advantages:
- Efficient visitor control without waiting times and without compromising safety.
- Relief for reception and site security through digital processes.
- Access only to approved areas, such as loading zones or meeting rooms – supports compliance.
- Complete logging of all access events for increased safety and traceability.
Optimal Use: Shift Work with Changing Working Time Models
In manufacturing companies, many employees work in changing shifts. For optimal resource utilization, production lines should therefore be staffed according to demand, taking qualifications and availabilities into account.
Suitable Solutions:
- Flexible Time Recording: With the web-based solution IF-6040 Time, employees conveniently record their times via smartphone, tablet, or laptop – ideal for flexible work models and decentralized locations. For industrial environments, Interflex offers robust, offline-capable terminals for time recording directly at the place of work – reliable, durable, and intuitively operable.
- Optimal Personnel and Production Costs: With the cost management module of IF-6040, working times can be directly assigned to projects or cost centers – for more transparency and better cost control.
- Improve Employee Satisfaction: With the Employee Self-Service of IF-6040, employees record working times, submit vacation requests, or swap shifts independently – this relieves HR, speeds up processes, and strengthens personal responsibility.
- Efficient Workforce Deployment: With personnel scheduling, you plan shifts flexibly and according to demand – taking qualifications and availabilities into account. This increases productivity, reduces costs, and improves team satisfaction.
Your Advantages:
- Legally compliant, transparent time recording as a basis for payroll.
- Reliable data foundation for business decisions: cost management, occupational health management, more efficient production, and resource planning.
- Greater transparency for HR, controlling, and production management.
- Efficient shift planning, less downtime and misallocations.
- More satisfaction and personal responsibility through flexible working time arrangements.
- Integration of the deskless workforce (“blue-collar workers”) into digital processes.
Secure your business:
5 steps to a reliable access control system
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Analyse
Comprehensive analysis of your security requirements and existing systems
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Planning
Development of a tailor-made security concept
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Installation
Installation and configuration of the components relevant to you
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Handover
Training for safe use of your system
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Support
Regular and reliable service and support
Your Advantages with Interflex
Many years of industry expertise
Reliable solutions for complex production environments – from single sites to international plant networks.
Everything on one platform
Access control, visitor management, time recording, and staff scheduling integrated and centrally controllable.
Flexible and scalable
Suitable for large medium-sized companies and international corporations – individually adaptable to processes, structures, and security requirements.
Secure and legally compliant
Supports compliance with ISO standards, regulatory requirements, NIS2, occupational safety, and industry-specific standards.
Efficient and transparent
Automatable processes, intuitive operation, and a clear data basis for management, HR, IT, facility management, and security officers – for optimal protection of company assets as well as efficient use of personnel, production processes, and resources.
Easily integrable
Seamless connection to SAP HCM, SuccessFactors, and existing IT and building management systems.
Investment security
Modular, expandable solutions that grow flexibly with your requirements and remain compatible across device generations. Available as cloud or on-premise solution.
Why KRITIS companies choose Interflex
Maximum security with minimum effort
With Interflex, KRITIS companies can manage their access and authorization processes digitally, automatically, and efficiently. Whether it's escalations, special approvals, or temporary access, clearly defined workflows ensure smooth processes and maximum security in everyday operations.
Legally compliant and auditable
All accesses, movements, and changes are documented seamlessly and in an audit-proof manner. This means you not only meet internal compliance requirements, but also legal requirements such as NIS2 or the KRITIS regulation – and are ready for audit at any time.
Flexible, scalable – and tailored to KRITIS requirements
KRITIS companies need solutions that can be seamlessly integrated into existing security and IT structures – without compromising availability or compliance. Interflex's modular systems are designed precisely for these requirements: scalable for growing infrastructures, flexible for individual processes, and future-proof with regard to regulatory developments.
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Would you like to know how our security solutions perform in practice?
Take a look at our references and find out how companies from a wide range of industries have transformed their access and security processes with Interflex.
Frequently Asked Questions about the Manufacturing Industry
- How can production areas, warehouses, and development zones be reliably protected against unauthorized access?
In manufacturing companies, sensitive areas such as machine halls, research laboratories, or high-bay warehouses are particularly critical in terms of safety. Access control systems, such as those from Interflex, enable time-based and role-based assignment of access rights, which can be flexibly adapted to shift models, external companies, and changing personnel. Integration into existing safety and IT infrastructures ensures that access is traceable, secure, and compliant – an important contribution to operational safety and the protection of know-how.
- How can visitor management be handled efficiently and securely – especially for suppliers, maintenance teams, or short-term access?
Visitors and external service providers often need short-term access to production-related areas. A digital visitor management system such as the one from Interflex enables fast registration, safety briefings, badge issuance, and logging of all access events. This minimizes security risks, speeds up processes, and ensures that all procedures are documented in compliance with GDPR – ideal for audits, certifications, and internal control systems.
- What challenges exist in time recording in manufacturing companies – and how can they be solved?
Shift operations, multi-site organizations, and collective agreement requirements make time recording complex. Incorrect recording leads to incorrect payroll, compliance risks, and dissatisfaction. The time recording systems from Interflex offer mobile and stationary recording options, real-time data, and interfaces to HR and ERP systems. This ensures that working time is documented transparently and in compliance with legal requirements – even with high staff turnover.
- How can blue-collar workers be efficiently integrated into time management – even without a PC workstation?
Production employees need simple and reliable systems for time recording that are available directly at the place of work. But this is often not easy due to working conditions. Alternatives such as permanently installed time recording terminals in production halls or modern solutions like mobile apps enable intuitive, convenient operation and legally compliant time recording – even without a fixed office workstation. This makes time recording practical, transparent, and legally compliant for employees in production – without additional administrative effort for HR.
- How can safety briefings and documentation obligations for temporary personnel be efficiently implemented?
Temporary personnel such as maintenance teams, cleaning staff, or external companies must be briefed and documented before access. The visitor management solutions from Interflex offer the possibility to digitally integrate safety briefings into the registration process for external persons, reliably log access, and also assign time-limited access rights – for more safety, relief for reception staff, and less administrative effort.
- What are typical security risks in manufacturing companies – and how can they be minimized?
Typical risks include unauthorized access to machines or hazardous material areas, missing safety briefings, undocumented working hours, and lack of transparency regarding external companies. These risks can be significantly reduced through integrated access control, visitor management, and time management systems. They create transparency, increase safety, and support compliance with legal and operational requirements.