Introduction

Outstanding products and effective production are the two main elements for the success of manufacturing industry. As to strive for higher profitability, prompt decision making with sufficient information is essential. In this aspect, information of workflow within the production site is the main area to be controlled. Therefore, pace of information flow does post great impact on the entire decision making process as well as the overall efficiency of the production line.

Challenges

With tones of information, data access and storage would be big concerns. The industry is now facing difficulties in the following areas:

• Ineffective workflow management
  
• Complex and unorganized network infrastructure
  
• Poor data storage management

How can ICG Help?

While IT outsourcing is planned by firms, ICG represents the main IT manager in the aspect of IT service support and consultation covering the followings:

• Data storage
  
• Data centre selection
  
• Network facilities organization and management
  
• IT infrastructure maintenance

Manufacturing company for Plastics and Toys

For manufacturing company with headquarters office in Hong Kong and manufacturing plant in Mainland China, effective data communications are critical to success. Information inflow and outflow needs to be in an instant manner. Thus, a highly reliable network framework is inevitable.

One of the local plastics and toys manufacturing firms with around 30 staff who are responsible for trading and marketing co-ordinations seeks advices on communication infrastructures from ICG. It has 3 production plants situated in Mainland and 1 headquarter office in Hong Kong.

 

As to ensure the reliability of data communications, ICG provides the following IT services to achieve this purpose:

• Conduct current IT environment assessment
  
• Select suitable network infrastructure provider
  
• Select the best-fit data centre for data repository purpose
  
• Security and Internet system maintenance
  
• Equipment and configuration audit

What did they achieve:

• IT Assessment with Solutions
  
• Tailor Made Solutions
  
• Vendor Neutral Assessment
  
• Continuity Suggestions