Engineering
Cutting unplanned downtime at a precision engineering firm
Precision engineering firm, ~180 staff, Vadodara
- Under 4 hrs
- Recovery time
- Monthly
- Tested restores
- Removed
- Critical single points of failure
Challenge — Production planning depended on a single ageing server with no tested backup. Unplanned outages were costing roughly two shifts of lost output every month, and nobody could say how long a full rebuild would take.
What we did — A full infrastructure audit mapped every dependency on that server. We virtualised the critical workloads onto resilient hardware, implemented verified nightly backups with a tested restore process, and documented a recovery runbook the shop-floor supervisor could follow without escalation.
Outcome — Unplanned downtime fell substantially within the first quarter. A verified restore now completes in under four hours, against an unknown and untested position before the engagement.
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