How HIROTEC AMERICA Put Three Plants on One Security Platform

Three Buildings, Three Ways of Doing the Same Thing

HIROTEC AMERICA designs and builds body-in-white closures, exhaust systems and the equipment that manufactures them, from a base in Auburn Hills, Michigan. Blake Cody was handed the job of implementing a new video and access control system across the company's three Michigan buildings, roughly 600 employees between them. What he inherited was three buildings running two different access systems, both aging, and one facility with no cameras at all. Granting someone access meant knowing which building they were walking into and which system governed it.

The access software in two of the buildings had a limit that shaped the whole workday: one administrator at a time. If someone was editing badges, everyone else waited. With budgets coming up for renewal and one plant still uncovered by cameras, Blake's team stopped treating these as separate problems and scoped them as one.

The Same Feature List, at a Much Lower Number

Blake's team priced Coram against two other established vendors. The capability lists came back close enough that the decision came down to what the company would pay for them.

• Video and Access on One Platform: Run cameras and doors from a single system instead of stitching vendors together.
• Multi-Site Administration: Administer all three buildings from one place, not building by building.
• Concurrent Admin Access: Let several administrators work in the system at the same time.
• AI Detection: Surface the events worth looking at instead of reviewing everything.
• High-Resolution Cameras: Get usable detail on a plant floor, including a facility that had no coverage.

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Administration Stopped Being the Bottleneck

Coram now carries both halves of the job across the three sites.

• Provision Access in One System: Give someone access without first working out which building's software owns it.
• Work in Parallel: Let several administrators edit badges at once instead of queuing.
• Cover the Uncovered Plant: Put cameras in the facility that never had any.
• Organize by Door Group: Manage permissions by group rather than door by door.
• Get Answers From Support: Reach a person or the in-product assistant during a rollout, not after it.

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