Manufacturing Solutions

Industrial Infrastructure Solutions


Ensure Your Facility Is Ready for Industry 4.0

Manufacturers are accelerating investments in Industry 4.0, with 84% pursuing or evaluating smart factory initiatives. Unfortunately, many facilities lack the appropriate industrial infrastructure to support Industry 4.0: over half of manufacturers experience difficulty in deploying and integrating digital technologies, and 53% of security teams believe their organization’s operational technology (OT) infrastructure is vulnerable to cyberattack.

Connection’s Industrial Infrastructure solutions help organizations prepare their facilities for a successful and secure industrial transformation (IX). Whether your environment is modern or relies on legacy hardware and software solutions, we can right-size security, data backup, networking, and power continuity efforts to shield your operations from unplanned downtime.

Connection’s Industrial Infrastructure Solutions are designed to help manufacturing organizations:

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Manufacturing Expertise Meets IT Know-How

Manufacturing Expertise Meets IT Know-How

Connection’s manufacturing specialists come from the same real-world settings you work in every day. We understand the pressures and risks you face. We can help you mitigate these risks, so you can ensure production schedules are met.

With our extensive background in IT and our manufacturing expertise, Connection can provide right-fit industrial infrastructure solutions for your organization. We work to connect your IT needs to your operational goals in line with regulatory, compliance, and business requirements.

Improve Uptime and Protect Productivity

Industry 4.0 relies on a wide variety of new technologies and devices, each with its own infrastructure requirements. Sensors, real-time tracking, and machine data acquisition systems need modern wired and wireless networking to handle high data throughput. Mobile and edge compute devices require secure connectivity to protect your network against intrusions. Business intelligence, remote machine control, and other data flows require appropriate governance and user rights. Without the right infrastructure in place, your facility is at risk of botched IX implementations, security breaches, or even unplanned shutdowns.

To provide industrial infrastructure solutions for your organization without affecting uptime, Connection thoroughly assesses your existing infrastructure before taking any action. Our Manufacturing Technology Workshop allows us to identify pain points and line of business (LoB) objectives, so we can provide tailored technology maturity recommendations. Our Internet of Things (IoT) Assessment tests your IoT assets for vulnerabilities, flagging potentially compromised systems for attention.

Connection’s services and solutions are offered a-la-carte. However, we recommend manufacturers begin their industrial transformation journey with our industrial infrastructure solutions before implementing other solutions. This ensures that your infrastructure is secure and ready to support more complex operational technology operations as your needs evolve.
Improve Uptime and Protect Productivity

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The Future of Manufacturing


Take Control of OT Access Control

When it comes to cybersecurity incidents, manufacturing continues to be the topmost attacked industry.1 A huge increase of surveillance in Operational Technology (OT) has resulted in 19% of all breaches being caused by stolen or compromised credentials.2

Connection’s Manufacturing Practice is here to help. Partnered with Envoy, we offer a full RFID authentication and access control solution for employee ease of use. It eliminates shared usernames and passwords to help keep your environment secure against threats, minimizes downtime, and decreases breach incident cost. Download this PDF to learn more about how our access control solution mitigates the chances your manufacturing facility will be the victim of a cybersecurity incident.

Are you ready to take the next step to help secure your OT devices? Engage our Manufacturing Practice to learn more about implementing this solution in your facility today.

Envoy - Take Control of Access with RFID

Industrial Infrastructure Solutions

Security

Security

Secure your facility against internal and external threats. Connection assesses your existing infrastructure, identifies areas of risk, and strategizes custom solutions to improve your factory’s overall security.
Backup and Recovery

Backup and Recovery

Maintain manufacturing processes in the event of a disruption. Connection can help your organization establish plans to maintain and restore mission-critical functions when disaster strikes.
Industrial Networking

Industrial Networking

Securely connect industrial equipment to enterprise networks. Connection can help you integrate diverse manufacturing technologies with enterprise business applications, even in harsh manufacturing environments.
Power Continuity

Power Continuity

Ensure your facility is protected in the event of a power disruption. Connection can help your facility determine appropriate power backup solutions for clean, consistent power and improved uptime.
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Footnotes:
  • 1 IBM, 2023, IBM Security X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2023
  • 2 IBM, 2022, Cost of a Data Breach Report 2022
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