An Essential Business
The art of protecting people, product, facilities and process
The manufacturing sector
is extraordinarily diverse,
ranging from the manufacturing
of advanced fighter
jets to ventilators, and pharmaceutical
products to cars, paper products,
steel, clothing, high-tech components
and beyond. According to Forbes Magazine,
the fastest growing manufacturing
sectors are transportation, metal fabrication,
food products, plastics and rubber,
beverages, machinery, wood, non-metallic
mineral, primary metals and chemicals.
Manufacturing is a sector filled with
many essential businesses in the age of the
COVID-19 pandemic. The National Association
of Manufacturers and Business
Roundtable joined forces to strengthen the
business community’s response to the critical
supplies’ shortage facing the nation’s
medical community due to COVID-19.
This partnership brings together the full
strength of the U.S. business and manufacturing
communities to help those on
the front lines of the pandemic.
PROTECTING THE PEOPLE
Hence, ensuring the protection of
people, product, facilities and process for
our nation’s indispensable manufacturing
industry is critical to safeguarding our
economic future.
So, what is the most pressing issue that
the manufacturing sector asks of the security
services sector? The manufacturing
sector demands fully integrated security
solutions. Manufacturing companies are
looking for reliable and experienced security
partners that help prepare for and manage
end-to-end risk that provide comprehensive
guidelines for security that focus on threat
assessments, situation analysis, and planning
to identify and mitigate potential risks.
They require physical security programs
to protect assets and respond to
threats and the electronic systems and integrated
risk management platforms that
deliver better business insights and capabilities
to force-multiply the physical security
programs.
Manufacturers, whose gross domestic
product (GDP) was $2.33T in 2018, represent
11.6 percent of total U.S. output.
However, no matter how varied or how
large the manufacturing sector is, this market
sector shares a common thread. They
all require a comprehensive and integrated
security program that prioritizes employee
safety, protects assets and leverages technology
solutions designed to optimize
security operations and support business
objectives. While the majority of manufacturing
companies are small and growing,
manufacturing is a vital, critically important
market sector in the United States.
This article originally appeared in the October 2020 issue of Security Today.
