The Manufacturing sector has been facing increasing security threats in recent years. Across North America, manufacturing plants are facing an uptick in cargo crimes, as well as theft, vandalism, and illegal encampments, with most of these crimes taking place in parking lots and placing employees at risk.
Thankfully, new solutions by innovative security leaders like GardaWorld are targeting many of these industry-specific pain points to provide effective protection tailored to today’s growing security threats.
Combining AI-powered technology with the skilled expertise of manned guards, Hybrid Security provides fuller visibility and coverage across manufacturing facilities, as well as enhanced access controls at entry points to better monitor and secure its often active inbound/outbound traffic.
Let’s take a closer look at the Manufacturing industry’s sector-specific security challenges—and how Hybrid Security can help.
What are the biggest security challenges facing the manufacturing industry sector?
- Employee safety
- Parking lot security (employee car vandalism, catalytic converter theft, etc.)
- Access control (gate/fence breaches)
- Inbound/outbound traffic management (trucks, tractor-trailers, products, etc.)
- Lack of visibility and protection of company containers, trailers and products
- Vulnerability to organized cargo crime and theft
- High recurring costs
How Hybrid Security can help:
- Due to their sheer size, protecting large outdoor areas, like parking lots, as found at most manufacturing facilities, can often be suboptimal for physical guards since they can only be in one place at any given time. Using technology as a force multiplier, Hybrid Security allows a guard to be omnipresent with “eyes everywhere” to better secure entire facilities in real-time while reducing costs.
- As part of a Hybrid Security solution designed to tackle sector-specific security challenges, AI-powered technologies like Smart Gate Access can play an instrumental role in empowering manned guards to provide enhanced protection of all inbound/outbound traffic. Leveraging powerful license plate detection (LPD) capabilities, Hybrid Security provides an effective solution for traffic management and access control.
- Placed in strategic locations of a manufacturing facility, Mobile Surveillance Units (MSUs) can also play a powerful role as part of your Hybrid Security solution by supplementing guards’ direct line of sight, ultimately providing eyes-everywhere, full perimeter coverage across your warehouse facilities for amplified protection of all assets, including trailers, cargo containers and product placed in dark corners of the premises.
Contact one of our security experts to help you develop an effective plan that’s tailored to your specific security needs.
