For manufacturers, maintaining the uptime of operational technology (OT) on the factory floor is critical. Even brief periods of downtime have cascading effects: loss of valuable production time, reduced output, supply chain disruptions, lost revenues, frustrated customers and opportunity costs.
This white paper examines the high costs of downtime in highly automated OT environments, the challenges faced in ensuring continuous OT uptime, the special concerns of maintaining the computers that run OT control software, and some proven solutions for restoring those computers reliably and quickly.
