The cost of a stopped line is counted by the minute. The floor runs locally; management sits at the center.
For scale: the average cost of a minute of downtime is $4,537. PagerDuty 2026 →
If plant systems depend on the center or the internet, a single dropped connection stops production too.
Systems on the plant floor run locally; the line keeps moving even when the connection drops.
See the approach →Apply the same redundancy across the whole plant and the critical line is under-protected while the others are over-provisioned.
Redundancy is designed per line, not per plant; critical lines are doubled and the rest run single.
See the approach →A threat that gets into the office network can reach the line if it finds an open path into the production network.
The production network is never opened to the office network; all traffic between them passes through one audited point.
See the approach →Systems on the plant floor run locally; the line keeps moving even when the connection drops.
Manufacturing is one of the fifteen critical infrastructure sectors the law lists. If you are in scope, the obligations to provide logs and to report vulnerabilities and incidents are already in force.
Crossings between the networks are logged, so after an incident you can show what passed where.
Eclit is certified to ISO/IEC 27001 for information security management.
Ask our team directly.
0850 432 3258No. The systems that drive the line run at the plant itself, so production carries on through a connection loss.
No. The maintenance window is agreed with you around your shift plan and announced in advance.
No. Doubled systems go only to critical lines, and we decide together, from your production plan, which lines those are.
The separation is built in from the start: the two networks are set up apart, with a single controlled crossing point between them.
Tell us how things are set up today and we will work out where to start.
Get in touch
