Manufacturing IT
Downtime isn't an IT problem. It's a business problem — and in manufacturing it has a unit cost.
It means production can resume on a defined timeline after a failure. That requires knowing which systems block which physical processes, protecting ERP and file data with verified image-level backups, having a way to run critical servers while the primary is rebuilt, and documenting the order in which systems come back so shipping is not waiting on a report server.
Receiving, inventory, production, quality, warehousing, shipping and finance depend on each other in sequence. Recovery has to respect that sequence: ERP and identity first, then the systems the floor touches, then reporting.
Written recovery order is what keeps an incident from turning into a negotiation between departments.
Some scenarios can return a critical server to service in roughly five minutes by booting a recent image locally, depending on architecture, failure type, configuration and recovery method. Other scenarios — large database restores, full site loss — take substantially longer.
We tell you which of your systems fall into which category before an incident, not during one.
Common questions
Automated verification should run continuously; a hands-on drill of critical systems at least annually, and after any significant infrastructure change.
That is a separate continuity scenario, and it is why cloud-dependent plants need redundant connectivity and a documented degraded-mode process.
We review your network, security posture, cloud tenant and recovery plan, then hand you a plain-language report of what we found and what it means for the business.
