The challenge In order to improve its processes and effi ciency, Invensys required its manufacturing plant personnel to interact with a management system on the production line using fi xed terminals, handheld scanners and various other wireless devices. The company had deployed a Plex Enterprise Resource Planning Management System (ERP) at the shop fl oor to achieve this. However, to support it, and as part of a wider strategy to adopt cloud services, Invensys required a robust wireless deployment that would eventually be utilised across thirty international manufacturing plants. Scaling a wireless deployment from a handful of offi ce-space access points to a resilient, high-density solution, capable of supporting a mission critical environment posed a signifi cant technical and administr

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