CCAC

‍The Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC) is a public institution serving students throughout Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

To improve how students and visitors navigate its campus buildings, CCAC sought a more effective, user-friendly wayfinding solution.

Their new digital signage system now features interactive maps, directories, event listings, and accessibility tools, all designed to make getting around easier and more engaging.

Below is a brief summary of the solution but we recommend viewing the entire success story here.

Introduction

CCAC enrolls about 30,000 students each year and offers over 130 academic and workforce programs.

To enhance communication and wayfinding across its campuses, Mvix created custom interactive digital templates.

These include screensavers, touchscreen building maps, visual directories, live event updates, and ADA-compliant features—each aimed at improving the campus experience.

The Challenge

Outdated static signage at CCAC was costly to maintain and often overlooked.

Physical maps and posters failed to capture attention, making it hard to share important information effectively.

Navigating the campus was a struggle for many, and engagement with existing signage was low.

CCAC needed a dynamic digital solution that was easy to update, eye-catching, and capable of providing insights into user interaction.

Deployment & Usage

Mvix started by assessing CCAC’s specific needs and designed a tailored digital signage system.

The rollout began at the West Hills campus, focusing on wayfinding tools enhanced with event listings and mobile-friendly QR codes.

Kiosks were strategically placed near building entrances to maximize accessibility and visibility for both students and visitors.

Why It Worked

After reviewing several vendors, CCAC chose Mvix for its comprehensive offering of software, hardware, support, and analytics.

The solution quickly proved effective, with hundreds of user interactions recorded within weeks.

Encouraged by these results, CCAC expanded the digital signage to additional campuses, with other departments now exploring new ways to utilize the system.

FETCO

FETCO realized they needed a better way of communicating with their employees. Specifically, with their production line employees.

They looked to digital signage to improve employee communications. Digital signage powered through Mvix offers a touchless real-time solution.

If you’d like to read the full case study, you can view and download it here.

Introduction

FETCO specializes in beverage equipment. They manufacture:

• coffee brewers
• hot water dispensers
• iced tea brewers
• coffee grinders
• frozen beverage machines

With customers and clients all around the world, their extensive sales network includes Asia and Pacific Rim, the Middle East, Africa, India, Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean.

FETCO was looking for an opportunity to improve their production and work more efficiently in their factory. They opted to try digital signage.

Opportunity for Digital Signage

Before FETCO implemented digital signage, they had relied on static communication such as a production sheets.

Employees would walk to one centralized location to check what task they needed to perform next. This was FETCO’s primary way of communicating with their production employees. This became a time consuming and costly process to relay information and updates in such a delayed way. Additionally, it required someone to manually check the sheet.

Implement digital signage has meant, that FETCO eliminated many touch points in their factory and head office. Presently, this is very important with the COVID-19 pandemic. Eliminating touch points reduces the risk of infection. Furthermore, it limits human interaction, which helps keep employees safe.

What needed to be done?

Improve internal communication by implementing a digital signage solution. Determine the locations for the digital signage displays as well as the number of displays needed.

Once implemented FETCO needed to manage the content on their digital displays content.

Utilize displays to inform employees while eliminating touch points.

Why It Worked

Our CMS saves them time! They are able to edit their displays from anywhere. As well as display the content on multiple screens at once.

The perfect solution tailored to them. Digital signage delivered increased productivity for FETCO from day one. They are able to spend less time on manual scheduling and more time on the actual product manufacturing

NASA’s SOFIA Program

The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) program, a project of NASA, has implemented a digital signage network in their Ames Research Center located in Mountain View, California. Powered by the Mvix platform, their digital signage network consists of 5 screens across 3 of their facilities. The digital signage solution allows SOFIA program personnel to communicate easily, displaying flight and maintenance schedules, and day-of and post-flight activities.

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Introduction

SOFIA is a Boeing 747SP aircraft modified to carry a 2.7-meter reflecting telescope, allowing astronomers to study the solar system and beyond. It is essentially a Flying Telescope. The airborne observatory is an 80/20 joint project of NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) respectively. SOFIA is operated and maintained by NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center and its program, science, and mission operations are managed by NASA’s Ames Research Center and the German SOFIA Institute.

The Challenge

NASA’s SOFIA Program needed a user-friendly way to communicate across different locations. SOFIA goes on 10-hour flights, observing the infrared universe and gathering data for researchers to study. The growing program has created large program personnel across different locations. In order to operate efficiently and easily, NASA needed an effective communication strategy.

Prior to their digital signage implementation, NASA team members relied on their email and other systems to find information regarding the SOFIA program operations. This communication method took personnel away from their core job tasks in order for them to gain vital information on flight schedules, flight activities, and other functions.

Deployment & Usage

NASA’s SOFIA Program implemented a digital signage network of 5 screens across 3 facilities, all powered by the Mvix Digital Signage Platform. The Mvix solution offered a robust platform for NASA personnel to manage the displays and upload content remotely. This helped with efficiency as they did not need to be at each facility physically in order to update the displays. Their screen could be updated with the most up-to-date information from anywhere.

Why It Worked

The digital signage network helped SOFIA program personnel communicate more efficiently across their facilities, relaying important information about flight and maintenance schedules. As a result of the digital signage implementation, SOFIA program personnel noted more effective communication across their facilities. Team members know where they can find information quickly without having to log into their emails or any other systems. The easy-to-read screens quickly became their “go-to information hubs” for their maintenance and operation teams.

In fact, because of the effectiveness of their digital signage network, NASA will be adding another system in the German Aerospace Center (DLR) headquarters in Germany to further their communications regarding the SOFIA program.