Solutions for the Automotive Industry
Interflex provides integrated solutions for access control, visitor management, time recording, and workforce scheduling – tailored to meet the complex demands of the automotive and supplier industries.
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The automotive industry is a cornerstone of the German economy, driven by innovation, global supply chains, highly sensitive development processes, and complex production environments. Whether OEM or supplier, companies in this sector face the challenge of reliably protecting their sites, data, and employees, complying with legal requirements, and implementing modern work models. Interflex supports them with integrated solutions for access control, visitor management, time recording, and workforce scheduling – precise, scalable, and proven.
Why holistic solutions are essential today
The automotive sector is under immense pressure to innovate and operate efficiently. Requirements are diverse and encompass both physical and digital security, as well as the efficient organization of processes, working hours, and resources. Legal regulations such as NIS2 or TISAX add further complexity. OEMs and suppliers must secure sensitive development areas, production facilities, and IT systems to protect corporate assets. This calls for a holistic security architecture that combines physical and digital protection measures.
At the same time, complex shift systems, a shortage of skilled workers, and modern working time models demand flexible, legally compliant time recording solutions. These form the foundation for key HR and production processes and offer employees greater transparency, participation, and work-life balance.
| Industry | Services |
|---|---|
| Vehicle Manufacturers (OEMs) | Vehicle development and production, system integration and software development, lifecycle management and compliance |
| Automotive Software & Electronics | Vehicle software and electronics development, connected vehicle technologies, safety and UX solutions |
| Mobility Service Providers | Digital mobility platforms, fleet and sharing services, multimodal mobility solutions |
| Automotive Retail and Leasing | Vehicle sales and financing, after-sales services, digital sales processes |
| Automotive Suppliers (Tier 1 & 2) | Component and system delivery, research and co-development, just-in-time/sequence production and quality management |
How Interflex Solutions Support Your Requirements
As a long-standing partner of leading companies in the automotive industry, we understand the sector-specific challenges you face. We help you implement a modular solution tailored precisely to your needs.
Protecting Corporate Assets:
Access control with IF-6040 secures sensitive areas such as R&D centers and prototype storage facilities through role-based access rights, additional biometric procedures, and audit-proof logging of all access events – ensuring maximum security.
Efficient Operational Processes:
Whether business partners, applicants, suppliers, or temporary workers – with the IF-6040 platform and its visitor management module, visitor access can be efficiently organized and integrated into your reception processes and access control system. Depending on location, security level, and your specific requirements, fully customized solutions can be implemented.
Reliable Foundation for Business Decisions:
As a certified SAP partner with many years of experience, we offer solutions for time recording with SAP integration. This enables reliable tracking of working hours and provides the data needed for your HR, management, and workforce planning processes – for SAP HCM or SuccessFactors.
Time Recording with Efficient Resource Use:
With electronic time recording via terminal, web, and the TeamTime app, employees can record their working hours accurately and reliably. The data serves as a foundation for informed decisions in controlling, cost management, and workforce planning. The time management solution IF-6040 supports resource-efficient shift planning, taking qualifications, availability, and legal requirements into account.
Holistic Workforce Management:
Access control, visitor management, and time management are seamlessly integrated within IF-6040 and can be flexibly expanded – ideal for complex manufacturing processes and high security requirements. The solution increases transparency, enhances site security, and actively supports digital transformation across the entire value chain.
Scalable Security Architecture:
With Interflex security solutions, you combine physical and digital protection measures and support your company in building a reliable ISMS and proactively addressing cyber risks.
Solutions with Interflex –
Your All-in-One System for Various Use Cases:
Protection of Intellectual Property
Automotive companies operate under intense pressure to innovate and compete. New developments, prototypes, and sensitive data are among the most valuable assets of a company. Access to these must be strictly regulated and limited to a select group of authorized personnel.
Suitable Solutions:
- IF-6040 as a Central Platform for Access Control: With the Interflex software system, you ensure centralized, cross-organizational assignment, management, and logging of access rights for trained and authorized personnel. Permissions can be granted and managed based on roles, affiliations, responsibilities, and defined security zones – all aligned with your specific security requirements.
- Modern Authentication: Personalized RFID-based ID cards using LEGIC advant or Mifare DESFire EV3 represent the latest in secure access technology. For enhanced protection, these solutions can be extended with PIN code entry at terminals. Alternatively, modern tools like the Interflex Key App enable reliable, multi-factor authentication via smartphone.
- Biometric Solutions: Highly sensitive areas can be further secured with biometric technologies ranging from 2D/3D fingerprint verification to facial, iris, and palm vein recognition.
- Real-Time Monitoring: Interflex’s online access solutions ensure reliable logging and centralized monitoring of all access events to secure zones. Features such as door status monitoring enable rapid response and automatic alerts to security personnel in the event of an incident.
Your Advantages:
- High-level security for critical development areas.
- Protection of your innovation edge and intellectual property from unauthorized access.
- Seamless integration with existing video surveillance or building management systems.
- Audit-proof and fully traceable logging of access events.
- Interflex access control solutions help companies build a reliable and scalable security architecture that combines physical and digital measures. This not only ensures compliance with regulatory requirements but also strengthens long-term trust among customers and partners.
Professional Visitor Management
In the automotive industry, daily visitor traffic is particularly high: temporary workers for production, job applicants, business clients, suppliers, and other external individuals regularly enter company premises. Efficient and secure access management is essential to relieve security and reception teams while maintaining the highest safety standards.
Suitable Solutions:
- Efficient Management of External Visitors: With the visitor management module of IF-6040, you receive a modular solution that integrates external visitors seamlessly into your access control system without media disruptions. Features such as pre-registration, digital safety briefings for fast check-in on the day of the visit, or a kiosk solution for self-service registration and check-out ensure smooth processes and a professional visitor experience.
- Service Provider Registration: The invitation portal enables structured and secure integration of external service providers and suppliers into the visitor process. External coordinators can independently enter, manage, and register visitor data, conserving internal resources and accelerating workflows.
- Smart Access Control for Company Premises: With automatic license plate recognition and digital access codes, you can manage vehicle access rights efficiently and securely. Barriers open only for registered plates, reducing manual effort, increasing control, and ensuring smooth operations – ideal for dynamic logistics and visitor flows in automotive production.
Your Advantages:
- Enhances security, reduces workload, and ensures a structured reception process.
- Simplifies collaboration with external partners through seamless processes and transparent data management.
- Automates access control, relieves security staff, and improves the visitor experience through fast, authorized entry.
Legally Compliant and Accurate Time Recording
In the automotive industry, with its complex shift models, changing work locations, diverse working time arrangements, and numerous internal and collective labor agreements, precise and legally compliant time recording is essential.
Suitable Solutions:
- Flexible Time Recording: With the web-based IF-6040 Time solution from Interflex, employees can conveniently record their working hours via smartphone, tablet, or laptop.
- Time Recording via Terminals: For industrial environments or employees without mobile devices, Interflex offers durable, offline-capable terminals for stationary time recording – ensuring reliable tracking directly at the workplace.
- Employee Satisfaction: With the Employee Self-Service feature of IF-6040, staff can record working hours, submit vacation requests, or swap shifts independently. This reduces the workload for HR, speeds up processes, and strengthens individual responsibility.
- Efficient Workforce Deployment: For environments without SAP integration, IF-6040 Time Management with Workforce Scheduling provides reliable data for optimized business processes and informed decision-making. The Workforce Scheduling solution enables flexible, demand-driven shift planning – taking qualifications and availability into account. This boosts productivity, reduces costs, and improves team satisfaction.
Your Advantages:
- Reliable foundation for numerous business processes – from payroll and health management to workforce planning.
- High transparency, efficient shift planning, and legal compliance – for HR, controlling, and production management.
- Employees benefit from transparency and real-time data, can view their hours at any time, submit requests independently, and actively contribute. This strengthens accountability and improves satisfaction.
Secure your business:
5 steps to a reliable access control system
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Planning
Development of a tailor-made security concept
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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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Regular and reliable service and support
Your Advantages with Interflex
Industry Expertise
Decades of experience in managing complex, cross-country and multi-site production environments for OEMs and suppliers.
Holistic Solutions
Hardware, software, and service solutions for access control, time recording, and workforce scheduling – all from a single source and on one central platform.
Scalability and Flexibility
Suitable for both medium-sized businesses and large enterprises – our IF-6040 solution grows with your needs and adapts to your structures and processes.
Compliance Assurance
Support in meeting legal and industry-specific requirements such as NIS2, occupational safety, and ISO standards.
Efficiency and Transparency
Automated workflows, intuitive self-service features and user interfaces, plus centralized control via one platform – for optimal protection of corporate assets and streamlined operations and resource management.
Integration Capability
Seamless integration with SAP solutions and existing IT and building management systems.
Investment Protection
Interflex’s modular and scalable solutions grow flexibly with the demands of your production and logistics processes – and remain compatible across device generations. Whether cloud-based or on-premise: your investment is future-proof and technologically adaptable.
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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Frequently Asked Questions about the Automotive Industry
- How can sensitive production areas and development zones be reliably secured – even with changing shifts and external personnel?
In the automotive industry, security zones such as development areas, test benches, or production lines require special protection. Interflex offers scalable access control solutions that allow you to manage and assign access rights flexibly and based on roles – including for temporary workers, suppliers, or external service providers. The systems can be managed across multiple sites, are audit-ready, and meet industry-specific requirements for data protection and compliance. This ensures full control over sensitive areas, even with complex shift models.
- How can time recording in automotive plants be legally compliant and efficient – despite high staff turnover and shift operations?
Automotive plants often operate in multi-shift environments with dynamic teams. Interflex provides digital time recording systems that work on mobile, stationary, and offline devices – ideal for production settings. These solutions are legally compliant and integrate seamlessly into existing HR and ERP systems. You benefit from transparent documentation of working hours, reduced manual errors, and full compliance with legal requirements – even with high personnel turnover.
- How does Interflex support shift planning and workforce deployment in production – especially during short-term changes or production peaks?
Planning shifts and deploying staff efficiently are key challenges in automotive manufacturing. Interflex solutions for time management and workforce scheduling enable automated, demand-driven shift planning that considers qualifications, availability, and collective agreements. Even short-term changes – such as sick leave or production peaks – can be handled flexibly. This helps optimize workforce planning, reduce overtime, and increase productivity.
- What are typical security risks in the automotive industry – and how can they be minimized?
Common risks include unauthorized access to test areas, missing safety briefings, undocumented working hours, and lack of transparency with third-party companies. These risks can be significantly reduced through integrated access control, visitor management, and time management systems. They create transparency, enhance security, and support compliance with legal and operational requirements.
- What role do KRITIS and NIS2 requirements play in the security management of automotive companies?
Automotive companies classified as critical infrastructure must meet heightened physical and digital security standards. Access control systems help implement these requirements through secure authentication, comprehensive logging, and integration into IT security architectures. This strengthens resilience against security incidents and ensures regulatory compliance.
- How can production employees without a fixed workstation be integrated into time management and shift planning?
Blue-collar workers in automotive production need simple and reliable systems for time recording and shift communication – directly at the point of work. Terminals in production halls, mobile time recording apps, or offline-capable solutions offer intuitive operation without the need for a desk. Digital shift planning enables flexible, automated scheduling based on qualifications, availability, and production needs. This ensures practical, transparent, and efficient time management.
- How can employee retention be improved through modern time management solutions – especially in times of skilled labor shortages?
Qualified professionals – especially in production – are in high demand in the automotive industry. Transparent, fair, and flexible time management significantly contributes to employee satisfaction and retention. Digital solutions enable easy time recording, understandable working time models, and fair shift planning that considers individual needs. Employees gain more autonomy through mobile access and preferred shift options. At the same time, overtime, absences, and workload become easier to manage. This builds trust, reduces turnover, and strengthens employer attractiveness – a decisive advantage in the competition for talent.
Interflex supports automotive companies with digital workforce management solutions tailored to their specific needs. These include intuitive, stationary time recording terminals and the TeamTime app for mobile employees, as well as comprehensive analytics for HR and management. This enables companies not only to meet legal requirements but also to actively contribute to employee satisfaction and motivation – a clear competitive edge in the race for skilled professionals.