Rochester Electronics Accelerates Digital Transformation of Manufacturing Archives with Soutron Archive
Transforming Archival Debt into a Positive Asset
A Success Story at Rochester Electronics
The collaboration between Rochester Electronics and Soutron Global highlights a transformative enterprise-wide project that has successfully digitised decades of records, effectively eliminating archival debt while streamlining IP traceability documentation across Rochester’s global manufacturing operations, improving the speed and accuracy of provenance verification across its manufacturing operations.
Strengthening Provenance and Metadata Management
The project, led by Rochester’s Archive Services Department, focused on securing the provenance of EOL (End-of-Life) semiconductors. By migrating more than 2.5 million legacy entries into the Soutron Corporate Archive SaaS platform, the team replaced fragmented paper systems and legacy databases with a centralised, high-performance digital environment.
Powered by the Soutron Corporate Archive SaaS platform, the initiative:
Strengthened metadata governance
Established and improved internal technical communication standards
Improved IP findability with accelerated search accuracy
Reduced operational delays previously caused by fragmented records stored across paper boxes, filing cabinet systems, legacy databases, and multiple network drives.
Operational Excellence through Digital Transformation
“Soutron’s archives platform and support services provided what we needed to digitise decades of documentation into a centralised database that increased Rochester IP findability,” states Meghan Turney, MLIS, Archives Supervisor at Rochester Electronics. “I can’t say enough good things about Soutron, and highly recommend them.”
By leveraging Soutron’s corporate archive solution, Rochester Electronics has reduced operational delays and mitigated risk associated with having to “no bid” projects that were previously caused by siloed records. The team was also able to quantify the immense cost savings of maintaining these digitised assets in-house.
“The Rochester Electronics project is indicative of the types of archiving projects we are seeing more often.” states Brad Frasher, CEO of Soutron Global. “The need for easier searchability, and the long-term savings that would be achieved by digitising all of their physical records. Meghan recognised this, rallied her troops, and completed their digital archive mission!”
Access the full success story detailing the project’s strategy, workflows, performance metrics, and lessons learned here: Read the full Rochester Electronics Digital Transformation Story
Learn more about how Rochester Electronics has used the Soutron Archive Thesuarus to standardise internal technical communications and how implementing the Soutron End-User Submission facility has shortened archival workflows, access their Case Study here: Rochester Electronics Transforms Internal Content Management with Soutron Archive.
