Manufacturing IT
Wi-Fi that holds in a racked aisle, VLANs that separate production from office, and cabling built for a building with forklifts in it.
Plant networks should separate office traffic, production equipment, scanners, voice and cameras into distinct VLANs with firewall policy between them; provide Wi-Fi validated for handheld devices moving through full racks rather than for an empty room; use fiber between buildings and closets; and place IDFs so copper runs stay within spec across large floor plates.
Steel racking, stacked inventory, refrigeration, high ceilings and moving equipment all attenuate and reflect signal. Handheld scanners have weaker radios than laptops and roam constantly.
Coverage has to be designed along the aisles and validated at device height with the racks loaded. A survey of an empty warehouse describes a building that will not exist next month.
Once receiving, picking and shipping depend on a cloud ERP, an internet outage is a production outage. Redundant connectivity stops being a nice-to-have and becomes part of the operating plan.
Common questions
Often yes — placement, channel and power tuning, and adding a few well-placed access points fixes many aisle dead zones. When drops don't exist where coverage is needed, cabling is the honest answer.
Yes. We design and specify, then manage the contractor to that specification so labeling and documentation stay consistent.
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.
