Where Should a Factory IT Investment Start? Discovery and Needs Assessment Guide
Business continuity: identify production-stopping services, acceptable outage and current redundancy. Servers/network: measure host capacity, storage, core/uplinks, fiber, VLANs and Wi-Fi bottlenecks.
Topic 1
Business continuity: identify production-stopping services, acceptable outage and current redundancy.
Topic 2
Servers/network: measure host capacity, storage, core/uplinks, fiber, VLANs and Wi-Fi bottlenecks.
Topic 3
IT/OT and security: review PLC/SCADA access, vendor connectivity, firewalls, EDR, MFA, admin accounts and segmentation.
Topic 4
Backup/DR and database/ERP: measure RPO/RTO, restore testing, DB latency/IOPS and ERP performance.
Topic 5
Physical infrastructure and monitoring: review UPS, temperature/humidity, power, racks, alarms and centralized monitoring.
Topic 6
The output should include current-state diagrams, risk register, capacity findings, target architecture and a P1-P4 investment roadmap.