Industries/Manufacturing
Manufacturing IT &
Network Services.
A factory floor where the WiFi reaches every aisle and every scanner stays connected, fibre between buildings that handles the next ten years of growth, and CCTV that survives the dust, heat and vibration of an actual industrial environment. CoreComms designs and installs IT and network infrastructure for manufacturing sites across the North West and West Yorkshire. Trafford Park, Aire Valley, Speke Industrial Estate and the wider industrial belt.
Industrial-Grade Networking & Security for Manufacturing.
Manufacturing IT is its own discipline. The kit you'd pick for a corporate office is wrong for a 10-metre-ceiling warehouse, the install you'd run in a quiet 9-to-5 environment can't disrupt a 24/7 production schedule, and the cabling that survives a soft furnishing fit-out won't last six months in an environment with forklifts.
We've built our manufacturing practice around the realities:
The team has fifty-plus years of combined experience and we work with manufacturers across the region, light industrial units in Trafford Park, distribution centres on Speke Industrial Estate, food production in Cheshire, fabrication and engineering across Aire Valley and Greater Manchester.
Factory & Warehouse WiFi.
Manufacturing WiFi has a higher bar than office WiFi. Coverage that's solid in an empty building needs to hold up once production is running, racking is loaded and forklifts are moving stock.
Three things our survey-led design gets right:
Outdoor APs
Outdoor and yard environments, vehicle yards, trailer parks, external storage areas. Need IP-rated access points (typically IP67) mounted on poles or building exteriors. Ubiquiti UAP-Outdoor, Cisco IW-series, Aruba 500-series outdoor depending on the operating temperature range and antenna pattern needed.Hardened Enclosures
Inside the production environment we typically deploy industrial-grade access points (Ubiquiti UAP-Industrial or equivalent) in IP-rated enclosures rated for the dust, washdown or chemical exposure the area sees. Mounting to structure rather than ceiling tiles. Power-over-Ethernet so a single Cat 6 cable handles both data and power without separate plug sockets.Site-Wide Mesh
Across multi-building manufacturing campuses, we design site-wide mesh covering production, warehousing, offices, yards and accommodation block in a single roaming network. Workers and forklift tablets stay connected as they move between zones; the IT team get one management plane rather than three.For deeper detail on the underlying methodology see our business WiFi page , manufacturing-specific WiFi inherits the same design principles, with industrial hardware on top.
Planning a project for your sector? Let's scope it.
Industrial CCTV.
Production lines, loading docks, vehicle yards, perimeter fencing, accommodation block external, manufacturing CCTV scope is wide and varied, and the cameras need to survive an environment more demanding than a typical office.
IP Cameras
High-resolution IP cameras (Hikvision, Hanwha, Axis) with PoE+ power, vandal-resistant housings where access is possible, and recording to a centrally-managed NVR with retention aligned to your operational and insurance requirements. Multi-camera coverage of loading docks for despatch dispute resolution. Production-line cameras for QA review.Thermal Cameras
For perimeter surveillance, fire risk in dust-heavy environments, and any zone where intruder detection at distance matters. Thermal cameras detect human-sized targets in zero-light conditions and can be paired with analytics for line-crossing and intrusion alerts.Perimeter Surveillance
Wide-area cameras on poles, optionally with PTZ for active monitoring, designed against the fence line and access points. Integrated with intruder alarm where the site has a manned response or monitored alarm contract.Fibre Cabling for Manufacturing.
Manufacturing campuses commonly have multiple buildings. Production hall, warehouse, offices, plant rooms, that all need to be on a single network. Copper between buildings is asking for trouble (lightning, ground potential differences, EMI). Fibre is the right answer.
We design and install:
See our fibre services page for the full fibre methodology.
OT/IT Convergence Considerations.
The line between Operational Technology (OT). Programmable logic controllers, SCADA, manufacturing execution systems, sensor networks, and Information Technology (IT) is increasingly blurred. Modern factories want production data flowing into ERP, dashboards on the office wall, predictive maintenance from sensor telemetry. The convergence is useful; the security risk is real.
We design networks with OT/IT convergence in mind:
Want a sector-specific quote? Talk to an engineer.
Production-Floor Comms.
Beyond WiFi and cabling, manufacturing sites typically need:
We design the comms layer alongside the network layer rather than as an afterthought, and integrate with your existing telephony platform. See data cabling for the structured cabling that underpins all of it.
Industries We Serve.
Within manufacturing, we work across:
Light industrial
packaging, assembly, small-parts manufacturingHeavy industrial
fabrication, engineering, plant manufacturingFood production
washdown environments, cold chain, FSC complianceDistribution and logistics
warehouse fit-out, conveyor integration, despatchPharmaceutical and healthcare manufacturing
clean room aware, validated environmentsThe team has worked across most of these in some form. Specific case studies and references are available on request.
Manufacturing IT FAQs.
Book a Manufacturing Site Visit.
Tell us the postcode, site size, and a sentence on what you're trying to fix or build. We'll book a no-charge site visit, walk the floor with you, and quote properly afterwards.
hello@core-comms.co.uk
Same working day response · Free site survey · Fixed-price quote