Independent consultant, David Brearley, looks at the issues of plant availability and asks if one and one does actually make two, when seeking to reduce the threat of downtime in manufacturing. The cost of downtime in the manufacturing industry is high, measurable and potentially business threatening. The use of IT in manufacturing is therefore part of this threat. Redundancy solutions to address the threat are often sought from within the standard IT toolkit, such as using RAID arrays, master/slave configuration and fibre optic ring topographies, but is doubling up the only way?
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