The manufacturers we are working with are facing unique challenges from COVID-19.   Many of their plants have a high degree of close-proximity work and shared assets, operators also need to be in the plant – operations cannot stop.  In light of the constraints, manufacturers are looking for creative, sustainable and cyber-secure ways to operate in this new world order.

In addition to the guidance from government and health sources around social distancing, temperature checks, procedural changes, etc., we are seeing many of our customers exploring technology around contact tracing, social distance wearables and automation to round out their response.  In general, these changes revolve around the four quadrants below:

To find out more about how manufacturers are incorporating these elements into their plants, please reach out. We’d be happy to share what we’re seeing and doing to respond to these unique challenges.

About Brock Solutions

Brock Solutions is an engineering solutions and professional services company specializing in the design, build and implementation of real-time automation solutions for broad-based industrial/manufacturing and transportation/logistics organizations globally. With 600 employees, Brock Solutions is a privately held, employee-owned organization with over 30 years of experience in the real-time solutions space.