22 | Tees Business
Could Tees businesses be risking
their very survival as a result of a
naïve failure to update their control
systems? Applied Integration think
so. Tees Business finds out more…
ACT
NOW TO
AVOID
DISASTER
C
ompanies across the UK, including
many in the Tees region, risk a
catastrophic failure in their outdated
control systems, experts at Applied
Integration have warned.
Process plants, manufacturing factories
and even hospitals are in real danger of
suffering financially disastrous system
failures due to running obsolete equipment
Such a failure of equipment no longer
supported by the major manufacturers and
therefore infeasible to repair quickly could
see companies go under as the result of the
crippling effects of long-term non-production
and damage to their commercial reputation.
And yet the nightmare scenario can be
easily and cost-effectively avoided.
Tees firm Applied Integration, one of
the UK’s leading independent systems
integrators, has extensive experience in
migrating a range of hardware and software
platforms.
The Stokesley-based firm has won a
number of contracts across multiple sectors
from companies determined not to fall foul of
a failure to plan.
Employing more than 30 specialist
engineers, the firm is working with big
names in the oil and gas, automotive and
pharmaceutical sectors to provide “migration
paths” from outmoded, unsupported
equipment to new state-of-the-art systems
designed for 21st Century challenges.
“We’re working with several companies
who have had the foresight to upgrade
their systems well in advance of any risk of
catastrophic failure to their ageing systems,”
said Applied Integration director Garry
Lofthouse.
“We’ve been able to assess their existing
systems, advise them on their priorities
and provide a migration path to completely
upgrade their systems