Estate assessment
An inventory of databases, versions, sizes and dependencies, with the applications each one supports.
Industry context
Database solutions in manufacturing
We design and migrate database platforms so transaction systems stay available and recoverable, with every move tested before it happens in production.
Database work covers the engines that hold your transaction data: high availability, backup and recovery, performance and migration between platforms. We assess the current estate, design the target topology and move workloads in planned windows with a tested rollback.
Manufacturers depend on plant uptime and safety interlocks, with suppliers spread across several countries. Plant engineers, quality teams and IT/OT owners need changes planned around production schedules and maintenance shutdowns. Data residency rules often decide where a database may run and where its backups may go, such as data classification policies for government and regulated data in the UAE and the NCA Cloud Cybersecurity Controls in Saudi Arabia.
We hand over with runbooks and training, and can stay on under agreed service levels.
Alongside sector regulation, we often map delivery evidence to cross-industry baselines such as the UAE Information Assurance Regulation issued by TDRA, the NCA Essential Cybersecurity Controls in Saudi Arabia and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, which many risk reviewers already use.
What we deliver
Specialists in manufacturing and platform engineers, with you from design to stable operation.
Availability and recovery
Replication, backup and restore designed against agreed recovery targets, and tested by restoring real data.
Migration and tuning
Schema and data migration rehearsed on a copy of production, followed by query and index tuning under realistic load.
Industrial and security standards
Where plant systems are involved we design to OT security practice such as IEC 62443 and to national controls such as the UAE Information Assurance Regulation or NCA OTCC in Saudi Arabia, and keep quality records in the form your ISO 9001 or sector auditors review.
Security and encryption
Encryption at rest and in transit, key management and access reviews for administrators.
Operations handover
Monitoring, patching and restore runbooks handed to your database team with training.
What to have in place first
A database programme is ready to start when the applications on each database and their recovery needs are known.
- Plant, quality and IT/OT owners for the lines in scope have been named.
- Application owners have agreed the recovery targets and maintenance windows for each database.
- Security and compliance have agreed where data and backups may be hosted.
Plan database solutions in manufacturing
Share your current systems, compliance themes and timeline. We will return a phased plan, a staffing model and a risk register for your stakeholders to review.