Bekaert Tech Stack
Global steel wire and coatings manufacturer scaling production operations
Bekaert is a large-scale materials manufacturer operating across steel wire transformation, coatings, and specialty fibers with 10,000+ employees globally. The tech stack reveals a traditional manufacturing backbone (SAP, PLC, Rockwell/Siemens automation) paired with emerging cloud-native tools (SAP S/4HANA, Analytics Cloud, Azure Data Lake adoption) — indicating a digital transformation push toward real-time production visibility and integrated supply chain planning. Active hiring spans manufacturing, engineering, and automation roles across 16 countries, with a notable focus on process optimization and equipment reliability (downtime reduction and root-cause analysis dominate their project list).
Tech Stack 46 technologies
What Bekaert Is Building
◆Challenges
- Reducing equipment downtime
- Ensuring compliance with regulations
- Cost control
- Reducing accident statistics
- Waste reduction
- Cost efficiency
- Process stability
- Reducing production downtime
- Compliance with regulatory requirements
- Increasing efficiency and reducing costs
▲Active Projects
- Renovation projects and major repairs
- Installation and commissioning of new electrical equipment
- Root cause analysis projects
- Cost and quality improvement project
- Process optimization for it service processes
- M&a integration and carve-out projects
- Continuous improvement and breakthrough innovation projects
- Service strategy development across key industries
- Performance and optimization of production processes for geotech
- Global fp&a reporting
Hiring Activity
Department
Seniority
Notable leadership hires: Automation Director, Sales Director, IT Lead
