Business Telecoms & IT in Burton upon Trent

Considerably, for anything in the production area. Wash-down and moisture demand properly rated enclosures rather than standard equipment, and cabling routes need planning around cleaning regimes. It is specified from a site visit rather than a catalogue, and getting it wrong shows up as repeated failures nobody connects back to the install.

A second connection path with automatic failover, so an outage becomes a known interruption rather than an open-ended one, and monitoring that tells you before a customer does. On a production site the calculation is straightforward: compare the cost of the backup circuit against an hour of stopped line, and it usually answers itself.

One network, deliberately segmented. Production and packaging equipment, visitors and the finance systems should not share a flat network, and being able to demonstrate that is increasingly what customer and insurer questionnaires ask for. In most cases it is configuration on hardware you already own rather than new equipment, which is usually a relief.