Case Study

Vulcan Materials

Vulcan Materials

? C:Y-BERl'JE1 When Reliability Matte? Vulcan Materials: Vulcan Materials is a large producer of construction materials, manufacturing sand, gravel, crushed stone, asphalt, and concrete. They have more than 50 plants located in California, Arizona, and New Mexico with a second division of the company operating plants on the East Coast. Uul[an Materials Company The Challenge: Due to the nature of their business, primarily quarr ying and rock crushing, dust, dirt and other airborne particles have always presented a threat to any elec tronics running at Vulcan Materials' plants. They had initially purchased Stealth computers to automate their plants, but had consistent issues with hardware failure. The Stealth computers they used had standard platter hard drives and fans that q

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