{"page":"https://netify.co.uk/sd-wan-sase-for-manufacturing/","title":"Manufacturing SD-WAN & SASE: AI Shortlist Tool (2026)","description":"Build a manufacturing SD-WAN and SASE shortlist with our AI tool: 30 vendors scored on IT/OT segmentation, SCADA priority and resilience. 2026 buyer guide.","author":"Harry Yelland","fact_checked_by":"Robert Sturt","date_published":"2026-06-11","date_modified":"2026-09-16","intro":["We typically see manufacturers are outgrowing their traditional networks as the likes of production lines, supply chains and visibility across distributed operations all have increased in their demands (with traditional MPLS-centric architectures increasingly struggling to meet these operational demands). Furthermore, ransomware attacks against manufacturing have surged 61% year on year in 2025, making it the most targeted critical infrastructure sector and placing an increased importance on both the networking and security of manufacturing operations. By moving to SD-WAN and SASE platforms, manufacturers can utilise capabilities such as application-aware routing, IT/OT segmentation and centralised management that each ensure production systems remain operational, whilst also ensuring cybersecurity and regulatory compliance."],"environments":[{"heading":"Production Facilities and Factory Floors","body":"For production facilities and factory floors, there is limited (to no) offline functionality offered for the likes of Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) and SCADA platforms, meaning that when the network fails, so do these systems. Even brief network outages can halt production lines as equipment awaits control signals and operators can lose visibility into process status, all of which leads to financial losses."},{"heading":"Integrated Manufacturing Plants","body":"Within integrated manufacturing plants, they typically utilise real-time quality management systems, automated material handling and predictive maintenance platforms, all of which utilise the network, and downtime can potentially cause quality defects or, in more serious cases, safety incidents that have consequences well beyond the network team."},{"heading":"Warehouses & Distribution Centres","body":"When a distribution centre network fails, orders cannot be fulfilled, inventory visibility is lost across the supply chain and delivery commitments cannot be met, with warehouse management systems (WMS) that coordinate storage locations, picking operations, shipping documentation and inventory tracking typically being more latency-sensitive than other applications."}],"performance":["All of the above use cases are reliant on low latency and high reliability to ensure day-to-day activities aren't affected. Given this, when considering the shortfalls of traditional networks, it's easy to see how SD-WAN and SASE's capabilities can significantly improve these facets of network performance.","SD-WAN's application-aware routing addresses this by enforcing a traffic priority hierarchy dynamically across whatever underlay mix is available at a given site (the likes of fibre, broadband, 4G/5G and satellite connectivity can all be utilised) without requiring manual intervention when link conditions change, enabling production control and SCADA traffic to be prioritised.","Multi-site resilience is also incredibly important for manufacturers, ensuring continuous production via sub-second failover for near-continuous availability.","Production networks also frequently have to operate without dedicated on-site IT support at every facility. Zero-touch provisioning capabilities address this directly: equipment arrives pre-configured and connects automatically, IT teams monitor and troubleshoot remotely, reducing the complexity of deployment and support overhead."],"security":[{"heading":"UK GDPR, DPA 2018 and the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025","body":"Manufacturers process more personal data than is often appreciated: employee monitoring, access control, supplier databases and customer order management all fall within scope, and IoT devices processing biometric access controls or workforce monitoring data carry their own compliance obligations. UK GDPR, DPA 2018 and the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (Royal Assent 19 June 2025) collectively impose legal obligations on how that data is collected, processed, stored and transmitted, with potential fines up to £17.5m or 4% of global annual turnover for serious breaches, which puts network security decisions in a different category than they were five years ago."},{"heading":"Cyber Threats Facing Manufacturing","body":"Ransomware attacks surged 61% year-on-year (520 to 838 incidents, January to September 2025), and the Jaguar Land Rover attack in September 2025, which forced a complete shutdown across all UK plants for five weeks, illustrates what that looks like in practice: £196m in direct cyber-related costs, wholesale volumes declining 43.3%, total economic impact estimated at £1.9bn affecting over 5,000 supply chain organisations. The attack vectors specific to manufacturing are worth understanding:","bullets":["OT-specific malware targeting industrial control systems directly: FrostyGoop (targeting Modbus TCP) and PIPEDREAM (the first cross-industry ICS malware) being the most significant recent examples","Supply chain vulnerabilities introduced through connected suppliers, logistics providers and maintenance contractors, each of which represents a network entry point that's often outside the IT team's direct control","IT/OT convergence risks from previously air-gapped industrial control systems now connecting to corporate networks, expanding the attack surface in ways that legacy security architectures weren't designed to address"],"after":"SASE architectures combining SD-WAN with integrated security functions (NGFW, CASB, IPS, malware detection) provide the network segmentation that's essential for preventing lateral movement between IT and OT environments, which is, in most manufacturing security assessments we're involved in, the primary concern."}],"procurement":{"intro":"Manufacturing RFPs tend to raise the same gaps, not because organisations don't understand their requirements, but because generic SD-WAN question sets weren't written with OT environments in mind. A structured RFP tailored to your production environment, site mix and compliance obligations forces vendors to respond specifically to IT/OT segmentation, SCADA traffic prioritisation and operational resilience, rather than offering the same answer they'd give a financial services firm. The areas where manufacturing briefs most commonly need to go further than a standard question set are outlined below.","requirements":["Production expansion and site changes: define expected rates of facility openings, line expansions and relocations over the contract term, with contractual obligations for rapid provisioning and clean decommissioning. Vendors answer this question very differently, and it's where you see the clearest differentiation between those who've genuinely operated at manufacturing scale and those who haven't.","Differentiated resilience by site type: production facilities require near-continuous availability with sub-second failover; warehouses may tolerate brief outages with workarounds in place. Specifying a single resilience standard across all sites either over-specifies for distribution centres or under-specifies for production. Neither outcome is desirable.","Peak period performance: specify peak bandwidth needs and acceptable performance degradation during congestion. Shift changes, production ramp-ups and inventory synchronisation windows are all predictable, and it's reasonable to hold vendors to specific degradation thresholds rather than leaving them to interpret what 'peak' means.","IT/OT convergence and segmentation: specify whether OT environments will share network infrastructure with enterprise IT and what security boundaries must exist. This is an area where vendor architectures vary significantly and where the wrong answer has direct implications for IEC 62443 compliance.","Compliance audit support and vendor assurance: verify vendors' own ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certifications (treat these as a baseline rather than a differentiator) and require specific explanation of how they support UK GDPR compliance and emerging Cyber Security and Resilience Bill requirements."]},"segments":[{"heading":"Enterprise-Scale Organisations","body":"What distinguishes enterprise manufacturing procurement from most other SD-WAN evaluations is the stakeholder complexity as much as the site count. Hundreds of locations with dedicated NOC, in-house OT security teams and complex network architectures including dedicated OT networks, enterprise SOCs and industrial network monitoring is one part of it, but the procurement process involves IT, OT, infosec and finance stakeholders with formal approval processes and, often, separate thresholds and occasionally conflicting priorities between them. Organisations running multiple production lines, business units or brands typically need differentiated service levels across those, and sometimes genuinely separate network domains, which makes the vendor’s ability to support that segmentation a procurement criterion rather than an implementation detail."},{"heading":"Mid-Market Manufacturers","body":"Leaner IT teams making network decisions with broader responsibilities typically require simplified solutions rather than the kind of complex multi-vendor architecture that a large manufacturer can sustain (and resource to operate). It's worth noting that mid-market manufacturers typically lack dedicated SOCs, which makes the security model a more significant procurement decision than it would be for a large enterprise: the choice between a managed service provider, an integrated security-capable SD-WAN platform and an outsourced security monitoring arrangement has a bigger operational impact here. We'd generally recommend that mid-market manufacturers weight the managed service and integrated security questions more heavily in their RFP evaluation criteria than the standard question set prompts for."}],"faqs":[{"q":"What is the primary benefit of SD-WAN for manufacturing organisations?","a":"The most significant benefit, in our view, is application-aware routing: the ability to prioritise production-critical traffic (SCADA, MES, PLCs) whilst ensuring non-critical applications don't compete for the same bandwidth during shift changes or production ramp-ups. Remote management through centralised orchestration and zero-touch deployment is part of it too, but the meaningful differentiator for manufacturing is that production-critical systems are prioritised in a way that accounts for the latency tolerances of industrial control systems, rather than just hoping that generic QoS policies are sufficient."},{"q":"Why is SASE becoming essential for modern manufacturing environments?","a":"The honest answer is that the threat landscape has changed faster than most manufacturing security architectures have. Maintaining separate networking and security tooling across dozens of production facilities creates management overhead that most IT teams struggle to sustain, and more critically, it produces the kind of inconsistent policy enforcement that leaves OT environments exposed, particularly where IT/OT convergence has expanded the attack surface beyond what legacy air-gap approaches were designed for. SASE converges the two into a single framework, and for manufacturers the practical effect is consistent security policy across both IT and OT environments, without needing a separate security stack at every facility. Ransomware attacks against manufacturing surging 61% in 2025 makes that more than an architectural preference."},{"q":"How does SD-WAN help manufacturers address IT/OT convergence challenges?","a":"The risk with IT/OT convergence isn't the connectivity itself, it's lateral movement. Once previously air-gapped industrial control systems connect to corporate networks, the attack surface expands in ways that are difficult to manage without granular segmentation. SD-WAN addresses this by enforcing segmentation policies that isolate SCADA systems, PLCs and production equipment from general corporate traffic, maintaining appropriate security boundaries whilst still supporting the connectivity that Industry 4.0 operations require. It's worth being specific in your RFP about what those boundaries need to look like: vendors' approaches vary, and a general claim of 'segmentation support' doesn't tell you much about whether their architecture can enforce the zones and conduits that IEC 62443 requires."},{"q":"What impact does the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill have on manufacturing networks?","a":"Manufacturing isn't currently directly in scope of the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill (introduced 12 November 2025), but the Bill grants government powers to expand coverage, and the direction of travel is clearly towards broader sector inclusion. The practical advice is to prepare now rather than wait for formal designation: the Bill introduces fines up to £17m or 4% of global turnover for serious breaches, and the gap between current manufacturing security postures and what those requirements will demand is, in our experience, often larger than organisations expect when they first assess it."},{"q":"How does network latency affect manufacturing production systems?","a":"For most enterprise applications latency is a performance consideration; for manufacturing production systems it's closer to a hard constraint in specific contexts. A delayed control signal reaching production equipment isn't just slow performance; it can mean a process deviation that isn't caught in time, or equipment that doesn't respond within the window that the quality or safety system assumed it would. The latency threshold that matters varies considerably by application type (SCADA control signals, real-time quality monitoring and predictive maintenance have different tolerances) but the underlying point is that treating them all under a single general SLA, the way you might for a standard enterprise network, isn't adequate for a production environment."},{"q":"What should be included in a manufacturing SD-WAN RFP?","a":"At minimum: clear requirements for IT/OT segmentation capabilities, peak bandwidth handling during production ramp-ups and shift changes, multi-site resilience with sub-second failover for critical production facilities, and specific vendor questions about SCADA, MES and production control traffic prioritisation whilst maintaining security boundaries between OT and enterprise IT. The vendor's own security certifications and their approach to UK GDPR compliance are also worth including: given the threat landscape in 2025, a vendor who can't evidence their own security posture is a third-party risk in itself. We'd recommend differentiating resilience requirements by site type rather than specifying a single standard, because the appropriate answer for a continuous production facility is genuinely different from the appropriate answer for a seasonal distribution centre, and vendors who treat them the same haven't thought it through."}],"sector_evidence":{"contract":"sector-evidence-view/1.0.0","sector":"manufacturing","summary":{"provider_count":30,"requirement_count":15,"accepted_sources":39,"total_sources":79,"providers_complete":30,"last_checked":"2026-09-16"},"status_vocabulary":[{"state":"proven","label":"Proven","definition":"An accepted source directly connects the provider's named SD-WAN, SASE, SSE or managed service to that manufacturing requirement."},{"state":"partial","label":"Partial","definition":"Relevant evidence exists, but the product connection, factory detail, geography or outcome is incomplete."},{"state":"not_found","label":"Not found","definition":"Credible sources were checked but no defensible evidence was found. This does not prove the provider lacks the capability."},{"state":"not_applicable","label":"Not applicable","definition":"The requirement does not apply to the provider's operating model."},{"state":"to_review","label":"To review","definition":"Research has not yet been completed."}],"evidence_rules":["Prefer customer-authored case studies, official manufacturer statements, contract awards and independent reporting.","A named manufacturer using a named SD-WAN, SASE, SSE or managed service is the strongest evidence.","A generic manufacturing solutions page is supporting evidence, not proof of a deployment.","Do not treat switching, Wi-Fi, data-centre or industrial networking evidence as SD-WAN or SASE evidence unless the source makes that connection.","Do not infer OT security from general IT security. Record the factory, production, industrial control or OT connection stated by the source.","Do not claim IEC 62443, NIST 800-82, NIS2 or another standard unless the source supports the precise wording.","Copy a short exact quotation that proves the point, then write a concise factual summary in your own words.","Record publication and checked dates. State what each source does not prove."],"requirements":[{"code":"factory_and_plant_connectivity","label":"Factory and plant connectivity","explanation":"","evidence_rule":"Do not treat switching, Wi-Fi, data-centre or industrial networking evidence as SD-WAN or SASE evidence unless the source makes that connection.","display_order":1},{"code":"ot_and_it_segmentation","label":"OT and IT segmentation","explanation":"","evidence_rule":"Do not infer OT security from general IT security. Record the factory, production, industrial control or OT connection stated by the source.","display_order":2},{"code":"industrial_iot","label":"Industrial IoT","explanation":"","evidence_rule":"Do not treat switching, Wi-Fi, data-centre or industrial networking evidence as SD-WAN or SASE evidence unless the source makes that connection.","display_order":3},{"code":"edge_computing","label":"Edge computing","explanation":"","evidence_rule":"Do not treat switching, Wi-Fi, data-centre or industrial networking evidence as SD-WAN or SASE evidence unless the source makes that connection.","display_order":4},{"code":"third_party_and_supplier_access","label":"Third-party and supplier access","explanation":"","evidence_rule":"","display_order":5},{"code":"remote_engineer_access","label":"Remote engineer access","explanation":"","evidence_rule":"","display_order":6},{"code":"resilience_and_uptime","label":"Resilience and uptime","explanation":"","evidence_rule":"","display_order":7},{"code":"multi_site_production","label":"Multi-site production","explanation":"","evidence_rule":"Do not treat switching, Wi-Fi, data-centre or industrial networking evidence as SD-WAN or SASE evidence unless the source makes that connection.","display_order":8},{"code":"global_supply_chain","label":"Global supply chain","explanation":"","evidence_rule":"Do not treat switching, Wi-Fi, data-centre or industrial networking evidence as SD-WAN or SASE evidence unless the source makes that connection.","display_order":9},{"code":"cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity","label":"Cloud and data-centre connectivity","explanation":"","evidence_rule":"Do not treat switching, Wi-Fi, data-centre or industrial networking evidence as SD-WAN or SASE evidence unless the source makes that connection.","display_order":10},{"code":"managed_operations","label":"Managed operations","explanation":"","evidence_rule":"","display_order":11},{"code":"network_visibility","label":"Network visibility","explanation":"","evidence_rule":"","display_order":12},{"code":"industrial_security_standards","label":"Industrial security standards","explanation":"","evidence_rule":"Do not claim IEC 62443, NIST 800-82, NIS2 or another standard unless the source supports the precise wording.","display_order":13},{"code":"uk_delivery","label":"UK delivery","explanation":"","evidence_rule":"Do not infer OT security from general IT security. Record the factory, production, industrial control or OT connection stated by the source.","display_order":14},{"code":"global_delivery","label":"Global delivery","explanation":"","evidence_rule":"Do not infer OT security from general IT security. Record the factory, production, industrial control or OT connection stated by the source.","display_order":15}],"providers":[{"slug":"cato-networks","name":"Cato Networks","marketplace_url":"https://netify.co.uk/marketplace/cato-networks/","research_status":"complete","overall_confidence":"medium","fit_conclusion":"Vitesco Technologies is a strong, named, specific case study - a big step up from the generic customer-index pages previously logged - giving Cato Networks four genuinely Proven capabilities.","gaps_and_unknowns":"Darling Ingredients, O-I, ESI, Juki, Haulotte and Komax remain named-but-unopened leads from the same filtered customer list. Segmentation, IoT, edge and industrial-standards fields have no evidence yet.","reviewed_by":"Harry Yelland","reviewed_date":"2026-09-10","source_count":9,"accepted_source_count":7,"requirements":[{"code":"factory_and_plant_connectivity","label":"Factory and plant connectivity","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_079","src_manufacturing_mfg_080","src_manufacturing_mfg_081","src_manufacturing_mfg_082","src_manufacturing_mfg_083"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"ot_and_it_segmentation","label":"OT and IT segmentation","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"industrial_iot","label":"Industrial IoT","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"edge_computing","label":"Edge computing","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_079"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"third_party_and_supplier_access","label":"Third-party and supplier access","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_080"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"remote_engineer_access","label":"Remote engineer access","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_079","src_manufacturing_mfg_081"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"resilience_and_uptime","label":"Resilience and uptime","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_070"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"multi_site_production","label":"Multi-site production","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_070","src_manufacturing_mfg_078","src_manufacturing_mfg_079","src_manufacturing_mfg_081","src_manufacturing_mfg_082"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"global_supply_chain","label":"Global supply chain","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_078","src_manufacturing_mfg_080"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity","label":"Cloud and data-centre connectivity","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_078","src_manufacturing_mfg_079","src_manufacturing_mfg_083"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"managed_operations","label":"Managed operations","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_070","src_manufacturing_mfg_078","src_manufacturing_mfg_080","src_manufacturing_mfg_083"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"network_visibility","label":"Network visibility","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_078","src_manufacturing_mfg_081","src_manufacturing_mfg_082","src_manufacturing_mfg_083"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"industrial_security_standards","label":"Industrial security standards","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"uk_delivery","label":"UK delivery","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"global_delivery","label":"Global delivery","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_070","src_manufacturing_mfg_078","src_manufacturing_mfg_079","src_manufacturing_mfg_080","src_manufacturing_mfg_081","src_manufacturing_mfg_082"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"}],"sources":[{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_070","workbook_source_id":"MFG-070","url":"https://www.catonetworks.com/customers/vitesco-technologies-builds-new-global-enterprise-network-with-cato/","title":"Vitesco Technologies Builds New Global Enterprise Network with Cato","publisher":"catonetworks.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-09-10","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"accepted","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Named customer case study","requirement_codes":["resilience_and_uptime","multi_site_production","managed_operations","global_delivery"],"named_customer":"Vitesco Technologies","segment":"Automotive","named_product_or_service":"Cato's SASE platform (Cato Cloud)","service_family":"SASE","estate":"~40,000 employees at ~70 locations worldwide","countries_or_regions":"Global (HQ Regensburg, Germany)","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated","measured_or_stated_outcome":"High availability across the board; removed need for a regional hub or co-location facility for WAN/Internet services","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"\"This is why we moved from our internally managed SD-WAN, remote access service and cloud-based Internet provider to Cato's SASE platform.\"","reviewer_summary":"Cato's own case study, live and verified 2026-09-10. Vitesco Technologies is a named, real automotive drive-systems manufacturer (Regensburg, Germany; ~40,000 employees, ~70 locations). This is a specific named case study, not the generic index pages already logged as MFG-012/013.","limitation_and_notes":"The case study proves a global enterprise SASE deployment, but does not describe factory-floor OT architecture or a specific industrial security standard."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_078","workbook_source_id":"MFG-078","url":"https://www.catonetworks.com/?p=142582","title":"Darling Ingredients Replaces Three Security and Networking Vendors with Cato Networks, Adopts SASE Platform","publisher":"catonetworks.com","publication_date":"2026-01-22","checked_date":"2026-09-15","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"accepted","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Named customer case study","requirement_codes":["cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity","multi_site_production","global_supply_chain","managed_operations","network_visibility","global_delivery"],"named_customer":"Darling Ingredients","segment":"Animal agriculture / food-industry materials processing (rendering, ingredients)","named_product_or_service":"Cato SASE Platform","service_family":"SASE","estate":"260+ global sites; ~16,000 employees; 14 data centres; 4 private PoPs","countries_or_regions":"Global","ot_or_production_environment":"Largest publicly traded company transforming animal-agriculture and food-industry materials into ingredients, feed and renewable fuel; no SCADA/MES/plant-floor detail stated","measured_or_stated_outcome":"$750,000+ in annual operational savings; rollout to 260+ facilities completed ahead of schedule; 66% reduction in manual threat-activity compilation; 2+ million threats blocked monthly","industrial_standard_or_regulation":null,"regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"\"Cato stood out as a competitive solution. Critically, it was also a solution that our Information & Cybersecurity (ICS) team was excited about.\" - David Daniels, Director of Global Infrastructure, Darling Ingredients. \"Thanks to the platform's cloud-native design, Darling Ingredients completed its rollout to 260+ facilities ahead of schedule.\"","reviewer_summary":"Verified live 2026-09-15, strengthened with a named executive quote (David Daniels) not included in the original summary. Darling Ingredients is real, named, publicly traded, at genuine scale.","limitation_and_notes":"Added 2026-09-15. No specific factory/plant OT detail; evidence is at the enterprise IT/security-consolidation level."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_079","workbook_source_id":"MFG-079","url":"https://www.catonetworks.com/customers/o-i-taps-augmented-reality-and-cato-sase-cloud-to-realize-impossible-to-count-savings","title":"O-I Taps Augmented Reality and Cato SASE Cloud to Realize \"Impossible-to-Count\" Savings","publisher":"catonetworks.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-09-15","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"accepted","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Named customer case study","requirement_codes":["cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity","factory_and_plant_connectivity","remote_engineer_access","multi_site_production","global_delivery","edge_computing"],"named_customer":"O-I Glass (formerly Owens-Illinois)","segment":"Glass bottle and jar manufacturing","named_product_or_service":"Cato SASE Cloud","service_family":"SASE","estate":"200 locations; 24,000-25,000 employees; security/performance improvements across 70 plants in 19 countries","countries_or_regions":"19 countries; HQ Ohio, US","ot_or_production_environment":"Glass bottle/jar manufacturer; deployed Microsoft HoloLens augmented reality for remote engineering collaboration on the factory floor","measured_or_stated_outcome":"20-30% cost savings vs prior MPLS solution; 3x increase in WAN bandwidth; enabled HoloLens-based remote factory-floor engineering collaboration across continents","industrial_standard_or_regulation":null,"regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"\"We were a long-term traditional MPLS customer with the typical routers on the edge, network-based firewall appliances, and legacy VPN concentrators. As we reached the end of our agreements, we felt the time had come to rethink our approach to networking and security.\" - Rodney Masney, CIO, O-I. \"The needs of the business changed materially in terms of speed, performance, connectivity and flexibility into our plants, and all of our locations around the world.\"","reviewer_summary":"Verified live 2026-09-15 (cross-platform lead, independently confirmed and substantially strengthened - a named CIO quote, specific cost-savings percentage, and genuine remote-engineering/HoloLens detail were not fully captured in the original summary). O-I is real, major, named.","limitation_and_notes":"Added 2026-09-15. No SCADA/MES-specific detail, but HoloLens remote-engineering use case is a genuinely strong, specific fit for Remote engineer access and Edge computing."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_080","workbook_source_id":"MFG-080","url":"https://catonetworks.com/customers/chemical-manufacturer-esi-reduces-the-time-to-integrate-acquired-companies-by-80-with-cato","title":"Chemical Manufacturer ESI Reduces the Time to Integrate Acquired Companies by 80% with Cato","publisher":"catonetworks.com","publication_date":"2024-08-27","checked_date":"2026-09-15","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"accepted","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Named customer case study","requirement_codes":["third_party_and_supplier_access","factory_and_plant_connectivity","global_supply_chain","managed_operations","global_delivery"],"named_customer":"Element Solutions Inc (ESI)","segment":"Specialty chemicals (consumer electronics, power electronics, semiconductor fabrication, automotive, offshore energy)","named_product_or_service":"Cato SASE Cloud Platform","service_family":"SASE","estate":"130 locations; 5,000-6,000+ remote users","countries_or_regions":"100+ countries","ot_or_production_environment":"Global specialty chemicals manufacturer with a 200+ year legacy dating to metal finishing; no SCADA/MES detail stated","measured_or_stated_outcome":"80% reduction in time to complete M&A integration work; onboards newly acquired companies in weeks rather than months","industrial_standard_or_regulation":null,"regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"\"There are not many times as a CIO that you can check the box in all these areas - faster, more secure, happy users, and a happy team - all for less cost and more business value. That's the Cato SASE Cloud Platform.\" - Dustin Collins, Global CIO, Element Solutions Inc (ESI).","reviewer_summary":"Verified live 2026-09-15, substantially strengthened - full company name (Element Solutions Inc), a named Global CIO quote, and specific 130-location/100+-country scale were not in the original summary, which only had a short excerpt.","limitation_and_notes":"Added 2026-09-15. Evidence is at the enterprise IT/M&A-integration level, not factory-floor OT specific."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_081","workbook_source_id":"MFG-081","url":"https://www.catonetworks.com/customers/juki-boosts-remote-cloud-performance/","title":"JUKI Ramps Up COVID-19 Telework, Boosts Remote Cloud Performance with Cato","publisher":"catonetworks.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-09-15","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"accepted","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Named customer case study","requirement_codes":["factory_and_plant_connectivity","remote_engineer_access","multi_site_production","network_visibility","global_delivery"],"named_customer":"Juki (Juki Ltd)","segment":"Precision equipment and needles for industrial and household sewing machines","named_product_or_service":"Cato SASE Cloud","service_family":"SASE","estate":"37 sites; 2,742 mobile devices","countries_or_regions":"Global, including China","ot_or_production_environment":"Global manufacturer of precision equipment and sewing-machine needles; no SCADA/MES detail stated","measured_or_stated_outcome":"ROI 5-10x higher than MPLS; malware detection rate at head office dropped dramatically; infections at any location visible centrally for rapid response","industrial_standard_or_regulation":null,"regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"\"To get the best performance we needed to connect all our locations to a single network with uniform security, including locations that hadn't been connected previously.\" \"We sought a solution that would cost as little as possible to deploy and maintain and we needed to comply with stringent VPN regulations in China.\" - Yoshiaki Kushiyama, Senior Manager of Information Systems, JUKI Ltd. \"With Cato we just ask for more bandwidth and get it almost immediately.\"","reviewer_summary":"Verified live 2026-09-15, substantially strengthened - a named Senior Manager quote, specific site/device counts (37 sites, 2,742 devices), and an explicit China VPN regulatory-compliance driver were not in the original brief summary.","limitation_and_notes":"Added 2026-09-15. China VPN regulatory reference is a compliance driver, not a named specific regulation/standard - kept out of the Industrial standard field accordingly."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_082","workbook_source_id":"MFG-082","url":"https://www.catonetworks.com/?p=2783","title":"Haulotte Halves Network Costs and Boosts Application Performance By Migrating from MPLS to Cato","publisher":"catonetworks.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-09-15","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"accepted","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Named customer case study","requirement_codes":["factory_and_plant_connectivity","multi_site_production","network_visibility","global_delivery"],"named_customer":"Haulotte","segment":"Materials and people lifting equipment (construction, warehouses, farms, forestry)","named_product_or_service":"Cato SASE (migrated from MPLS)","service_family":"SASE","estate":"6 manufacturing plants; 30+ offices","countries_or_regions":"Western Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Asia Pacific","ot_or_production_environment":"Global manufacturer of materials/people lifting equipment; no SCADA/MES detail stated","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Network costs halved; improved application performance","industrial_standard_or_regulation":null,"regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"\"Cato's management interface was so easy to use compared to those of the traditional SD-WAN players we looked at.\" - Thomas Chejfec, Group CIO, Haulotte. \"During my first few months at Haulotte, the network was a daily headache... There were outages, complaints, and negative feedback from several internal teams about the service from our major international MPLS provider.\"","reviewer_summary":"Verified live 2026-09-15, substantially strengthened - a named Group CIO quote and the specific 6-plants/30+-offices footprint were not in the original short summary.","limitation_and_notes":"Added 2026-09-15. Halved network cost figure is stated as a headline claim; exact percentage/baseline not independently broken out on the page."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_083","workbook_source_id":"MFG-083","url":"https://www.catonetworks.com/?p=2806","title":"Komax Drives Innovation, Cloud Connectivity, and Mobile Collaboration with Cato","publisher":"catonetworks.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-09-15","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"accepted","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Named customer case study","requirement_codes":["cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity","factory_and_plant_connectivity","managed_operations","network_visibility"],"named_customer":"Komax (Komax Corporation / Komax Group)","segment":"Wire processing and automated wire-harness manufacturing machinery","named_product_or_service":"Cato SASE (replacing appliance-based SD-WAN)","service_family":"SASE","estate":"35 sites (prior SD-WAN deployment)","countries_or_regions":"Not specifically stated beyond \"35 of our sites\"","ot_or_production_environment":"Manufactures automated wire-processing machinery; no SCADA/MES detail stated","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Reduced operational costs; improved agility, flexibility, performance and security","industrial_standard_or_regulation":null,"regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"\"The SD-WAN appliances we had at 35 of our sites were a nightmare, including the first and second level support from the provider. We felt we needed to get away from all that complex hardware and move towards SASE.\" - Daniel Sollberger, Lead, Global IT Infrastructure, Komax.","reviewer_summary":"Verified live 2026-09-15, substantially strengthened - named executive quotes (Daniel Sollberger, and a second exec referred to as \"Rölz\") and the specific prior-SD-WAN 35-site detail were not in the original short summary.","limitation_and_notes":"Added 2026-09-15. No specific country list or quantified savings percentage stated on the page."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_012","workbook_source_id":"MFG-012","url":"https://www.catonetworks.com/customers/","title":"Customers | Cato Networks (main case study index with industry filter taxonomy)","publisher":"catonetworks.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"superseded","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":[],"named_customer":"Multiple (index; not opened individually)","segment":"Multiple","named_product_or_service":"Not stated in the reviewed source","service_family":"Not relevant","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"Not stated in the reviewed source","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Not stated in the reviewed source","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"Vitesco Technologies Builds New Global Enterprise Network with Cato","reviewer_summary":"The deepest sector on Cato's site. Manufacturing is an industry filter returning seven named customers: Darling Ingredients, Vitesco Technologies, O-I, ESI, Juki, Haulotte and Komax. Several are global multi-plant manufacturers, so this is the best-evidenced sector of the ten.","limitation_and_notes":"Supplier's own case study index. Carries the supplier's own industry taxonomy, so both the presence and the absence of an industry label is meaningful evidence."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_013","workbook_source_id":"MFG-013","url":"https://www.catonetworks.com/customers/?industry=manufacturing","title":"Customers filtered by Manufacturing","publisher":"catonetworks.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"superseded","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":[],"named_customer":"Darling Ingredients, Vitesco Technologies, O-I, ESI, Juki, Haulotte, Komax","segment":"Multiple","named_product_or_service":"Not stated (filtered list only; individual case studies not opened)","service_family":"Not relevant","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"Not stated in the reviewed source","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Not stated in the reviewed source","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"Vitesco Technologies Builds New Global Enterprise Network with Cato","reviewer_summary":"The deepest sector on Cato's site. Manufacturing is an industry filter returning seven named customers: Darling Ingredients, Vitesco Technologies, O-I, ESI, Juki, Haulotte and Komax. Several are global multi-plant manufacturers, so this is the best-evidenced sector of the ten.","limitation_and_notes":"Supplier's own filtered case study listing. Seven named manufacturers."}]},{"slug":"opensystems","name":"Open Systems","marketplace_url":"https://netify.co.uk/marketplace/opensystems/","research_status":"complete","overall_confidence":"medium","fit_conclusion":"CLAAS is the single strongest case study found in this whole exercise - named, quantified, with an attributed customer quote and five genuinely Proven capabilities. This flips Open Systems from zero evidence to one of the best-evidenced providers in the workbook.","gaps_and_unknowns":"GEA, Marquardt Group, Kelvion and Chemours are further named manufacturing leads on Open Systems' own customer page, not yet independently opened - each looks likely to add further Proven fields (GEA: MPLS-to-SASE migration; Marquardt: automotive switches, 20% cost savings; Kelvion: 90-site SD-WAN rollout).","reviewed_by":"Harry Yelland","reviewed_date":"2026-09-10","source_count":3,"accepted_source_count":3,"requirements":[{"code":"factory_and_plant_connectivity","label":"Factory and plant connectivity","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_076","src_manufacturing_mfg_077"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"ot_and_it_segmentation","label":"OT and IT segmentation","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"industrial_iot","label":"Industrial IoT","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"edge_computing","label":"Edge computing","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"third_party_and_supplier_access","label":"Third-party and supplier access","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_077"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"remote_engineer_access","label":"Remote engineer access","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_047"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"resilience_and_uptime","label":"Resilience and uptime","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_047","src_manufacturing_mfg_077"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"multi_site_production","label":"Multi-site production","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_047","src_manufacturing_mfg_076","src_manufacturing_mfg_077"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"global_supply_chain","label":"Global supply chain","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity","label":"Cloud and data-centre connectivity","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_076"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"managed_operations","label":"Managed operations","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_047","src_manufacturing_mfg_076","src_manufacturing_mfg_077"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"network_visibility","label":"Network visibility","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_076","src_manufacturing_mfg_077"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"industrial_security_standards","label":"Industrial security standards","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"uk_delivery","label":"UK delivery","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"global_delivery","label":"Global delivery","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_047","src_manufacturing_mfg_076","src_manufacturing_mfg_077"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"}],"sources":[{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_047","workbook_source_id":"MFG-047","url":"https://www.open-systems.com/company/customers/claas/","title":"CLAAS Customer Story - Open Systems Managed SASE","publisher":"open-systems.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-09-10","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"accepted","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Named customer case study","requirement_codes":["remote_engineer_access","resilience_and_uptime","multi_site_production","managed_operations","global_delivery"],"named_customer":"CLAAS","segment":"Industrial equipment","named_product_or_service":"Open Systems Managed SASE","service_family":"Managed SASE","estate":"165 locations; 11,400+ employees worldwide; 3,650 new remote connections rolled out","countries_or_regions":"Germany, Hungary, United States, Russia, India, Argentina (three continents)","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated directly (agricultural machinery manufacturer; remote access gateways activated on existing on-site hardware appliances)","measured_or_stated_outcome":"3,650 secure connections created in one week; network unaffected by the crisis that prompted the rollout (\"it cost us ten workdays\" per the named customer quote)","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"\"CLAAS needed to connect 3,650 new remote employees across three continents and 165 locations in seven days... Open Systems rolled out all the connections on time and in exactly one week.\"","reviewer_summary":"Open Systems' own case study, live and verified 2026-09-10, with a named quote from Alexander Henneberg, IT Network Engineer & Project Manager, CLAAS. CLAAS is a real, well-known agricultural-machinery manufacturer (combine harvesters). This is one of the most specific, quantified, named case studies found across the whole workbook.","limitation_and_notes":"The case study proves rapid secure remote access across 165 locations, but does not describe factory-floor OT network architecture."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_076","workbook_source_id":"MFG-076","url":"https://www.open-systems.com/company/customers/gea/","title":"GEA Secures its Networks with Open Systems Managed SASE","publisher":"open-systems.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-09-15","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"accepted","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Named customer case study","requirement_codes":["cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity","factory_and_plant_connectivity","multi_site_production","managed_operations","network_visibility","global_delivery"],"named_customer":"GEA","segment":"Food, beverage and pharmaceutical process technology","named_product_or_service":"Open Systems Managed SASE (SASE Experience)","service_family":"SASE","estate":"18,000 employees across 62 countries; no factory count stated","countries_or_regions":"62 countries; team based in North America, Europe and Asia","ot_or_production_environment":"Develops machinery, plants and process technology for food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries; must follow standards controlled by government agencies worldwide (no specific standard named)","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Increased visibility and transparency of network traffic; improved collaboration among global teams; drastically fewer escalations; unified overview of ISPs through a single pane of glass","industrial_standard_or_regulation":null,"regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"\"Before, we had a lot of disparate portals, and we needed an overview of our ISPs in one place. Now, Open Systems gives us the visibility we need.\" - Paul Rigano, Director, Network Services, GEA.","reviewer_summary":"Verified live 2026-09-15, strengthened with a named executive quote (Paul Rigano) not included in the original summary. GEA is a real, major, named manufacturer.","limitation_and_notes":"Added 2026-09-15. No specific factory count or OT/SCADA/MES detail; standards mentioned only generically (\"government agencies worldwide\"), no specific standard named."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_077","workbook_source_id":"MFG-077","url":"https://www.open-systems.com/company/customers/kelvion/","title":"Kelvion Customer Story - Open Systems","publisher":"open-systems.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-09-15","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"accepted","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Named customer case study","requirement_codes":["third_party_and_supplier_access","factory_and_plant_connectivity","resilience_and_uptime","multi_site_production","managed_operations","network_visibility","global_delivery"],"named_customer":"Kelvion","segment":"Heat exchange solutions","named_product_or_service":"Open Systems fully managed SD-WAN; ZTNA","service_family":"SD-WAN","estate":"~6,000 employees; 72 sites across 6 continents; network run by just 2 employees","countries_or_regions":"Global (6 continents); HQ Herne, Germany","ot_or_production_environment":"Global specialist in heat exchange solutions; page notes production lines could halt during outages, but no specific OT/SCADA/MES architecture described","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Fully managed SD-WAN rolled out to 90 sites (later 72 ongoing) in 6 months; zero outages since implementation; up to 5,000 employees enabled for secure home access in two weeks; external providers restricted to specific applications via ZTNA","industrial_standard_or_regulation":null,"regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"\"Within just six months, we jointly implemented a fully managed SD-WAN across 70+ global sites.\" - Thomas Muth, Vice President Group IT, Kelvion. \"When I joined Kelvion in 2018, I encountered a very heterogeneous and outdated network infrastructure. The existing WAN was largely based on old MPLS lines with insufficient bandwidth.\" \"With Open Systems' ZTNA (Zero Trust Network Access), external partners only get access to the specific applications or systems they actually need - nothing more.\"","reviewer_summary":"Verified live 2026-09-15, strengthened with a named executive quote (Thomas Muth, VP Group IT) and a genuine zero-outage stat not fully captured in the original summary. Kelvion is real, named, at real scale (72 sites, 6 continents).","limitation_and_notes":"Added 2026-09-15. Production-line impact is mentioned as a stated risk/business driver, not a description of an actual production-network architecture - so resilience evidence is at the WAN/IT level, not a proven OT-specific deployment."}]},{"slug":"expereo","name":"Expereo","marketplace_url":"https://netify.co.uk/marketplace/expereo/","research_status":"complete","overall_confidence":"medium","fit_conclusion":"Now supported by three real, named manufacturer case studies: Schoeller Allibert (returnable plastic packaging, 13 factories/50 countries, managed SASE, 6-month COVID-era rollout with 4G resilience), Socomec (electrical equipment, China-to-France factory connectivity via managed Internet and expereoOne visibility), and Bilfinger (industrial services at chemical/oil&gas/food/energy/steel sites, VMware SD-WAN, remote router upgrades). Best fit for manufacturers needing managed connectivity and visibility across globally dispersed sites, with genuine resilience features (4G failover, remote deployment). No evidence found for OT/IT segmentation, Industrial IoT, edge computing, global supply chain, UK-specific delivery, or any named industrial security standard.","gaps_and_unknowns":"[2026-09-15] The three leads previously flagged (Schoeller Allibert, Socomec, Bilfinger) have all been opened, verified live and promoted to Accepted (MFG-073, MFG-074, MFG-075). Remaining gaps: no evidence found for OT/IT segmentation, Industrial IoT, edge computing, global supply chain, UK delivery, or any named industrial standard (IEC 62443, NIST SP 800-82, NIS2, ISO) - these were searched for but not found on the verified pages.","reviewed_by":"Harry Yelland","reviewed_date":"2026-09-15","source_count":4,"accepted_source_count":3,"requirements":[{"code":"factory_and_plant_connectivity","label":"Factory and plant connectivity","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_026","src_manufacturing_mfg_074","src_manufacturing_mfg_075"],"verified_date":"2026-09-15"},{"code":"ot_and_it_segmentation","label":"OT and IT segmentation","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-15"},{"code":"industrial_iot","label":"Industrial IoT","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-15"},{"code":"edge_computing","label":"Edge computing","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-15"},{"code":"third_party_and_supplier_access","label":"Third-party and supplier access","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_075"],"verified_date":"2026-09-15"},{"code":"remote_engineer_access","label":"Remote engineer access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-15"},{"code":"resilience_and_uptime","label":"Resilience and uptime","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_026","src_manufacturing_mfg_074","src_manufacturing_mfg_075"],"verified_date":"2026-09-15"},{"code":"multi_site_production","label":"Multi-site production","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_026"],"verified_date":"2026-09-15"},{"code":"global_supply_chain","label":"Global supply chain","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-15"},{"code":"cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity","label":"Cloud and data-centre connectivity","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_026"],"verified_date":"2026-09-15"},{"code":"managed_operations","label":"Managed operations","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_026","src_manufacturing_mfg_075"],"verified_date":"2026-09-15"},{"code":"network_visibility","label":"Network visibility","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_026","src_manufacturing_mfg_074","src_manufacturing_mfg_075"],"verified_date":"2026-09-15"},{"code":"industrial_security_standards","label":"Industrial security standards","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-15"},{"code":"uk_delivery","label":"UK delivery","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-15"},{"code":"global_delivery","label":"Global delivery","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_026","src_manufacturing_mfg_074","src_manufacturing_mfg_075"],"verified_date":"2026-09-15"}],"sources":[{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_026","workbook_source_id":"MFG-073","url":"https://www.expereo.com/case-studies/schoeller-allibert-improves-visibility-and-security-with-managed-sase","title":"Improving network control for cloud strategies with SASE (Schoeller Allibert)","publisher":"expereo.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-09-15","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"accepted","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Named customer case study","requirement_codes":["cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity","factory_and_plant_connectivity","resilience_and_uptime","multi_site_production","managed_operations","network_visibility","global_delivery"],"named_customer":"Schoeller Allibert","segment":"Returnable plastic packaging (material handling)","named_product_or_service":"Expereo managed SASE (VMware SD-WAN and Zscaler)","service_family":"SASE","estate":"36 sites including 13 factories/production locations; 2,000+ employees; local presence in 50 countries","countries_or_regions":"50 countries; specific issue resolved at a French location","ot_or_production_environment":"Manufacturer of Returnable Transit Packaging (RTP); European market leader; no SCADA/MES detail stated","measured_or_stated_outcome":"SASE migration delivered within 6 months (during COVID-19); improved WAN traffic insight, performance and security; 4G dongle restored stability at a French site; remote implementation avoided on-site engineer visits","industrial_standard_or_regulation":null,"regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"\"All IT infrastructure ran on-premises, and the company used a traditional VPN tunnel-based WAN to connect its 36 sites, including 13 factories.\" \"The SASE solution allows remote implementation, so Expereo didn't need to have engineers on site.\" \"We had a problem with an unstable line at a location in France. We simply added a 4G mobile connectivity dongle, and that works brilliantly.\"","reviewer_summary":"Verified live 2026-09-15 (this closes out the lead already noted in Expereo's gaps as needing the full case-study page opened). Schoeller Allibert is real, named, with real facility counts and a genuine 4G-resilience and remote-deployment story.","limitation_and_notes":"Added 2026-09-15. No SCADA/MES or OT-specific detail. This is the strongest single Expereo finding and should move the provider from In progress toward Complete."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_074","workbook_source_id":"MFG-074","url":"https://www.expereo.com/resources/case-studies/a-seamless-experience-moving-from-mpls-to-internet-based-networking","title":"Socomec partners with Expereo for seamless network transformation","publisher":"expereo.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-09-15","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"accepted","reviewer_confidence":"medium","record_type":"Named customer case study","requirement_codes":["factory_and_plant_connectivity","resilience_and_uptime","network_visibility","global_delivery"],"named_customer":"Socomec","segment":"Electrical equipment (inverters, energy storage, switches)","named_product_or_service":"Expereo managed Internet connectivity (dual-path) and expereoOne visibility platform","service_family":"Not relevant","estate":"Factories in China explicitly named; no total site count stated","countries_or_regions":"China; France (European data centre); Singapore referenced re: colocation partners","ot_or_production_environment":"Manufactures inverters, measuring stations, energy-storage systems, switches; no SCADA/MES detail","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Minimal outages; improved service quality between China and Europe; reduced complexity managing multiple providers; real-time visibility via expereoOne","industrial_standard_or_regulation":null,"regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"\"Connectivity to factories in China providing secure, consistently performing service to and from the European Data Center in France.\" \"As a manufacturer, Socomec required a redundant diverse solution to ensure factories were connected and always operational.\"","reviewer_summary":"Verified live 2026-09-15. Socomec is real and named. The deployed service is managed Internet/dual-path connectivity and a visibility platform - not itself branded SD-WAN, SASE or SSE, so graded Not relevant on that field per evidence rule 4, though genuinely supports connectivity and resilience capabilities.","limitation_and_notes":"Added 2026-09-15. Product is managed Internet connectivity, not a named SD-WAN/SASE/SSE service - weaker fit for the core comparison than Schoeller Allibert."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_075","workbook_source_id":"MFG-075","url":"https://www.expereo.com/resources/case-studies/bilfinger-improves-speed-with-vmware-sd-wan","title":"Improving speed, efficiency and control with SD-WAN from Expereo","publisher":"expereo.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-09-15","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"accepted","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Named customer case study","requirement_codes":["third_party_and_supplier_access","factory_and_plant_connectivity","resilience_and_uptime","managed_operations","network_visibility","global_delivery"],"named_customer":"Bilfinger Industrial Services","segment":"Industrial services (chemical, oil & gas, food, energy, steel sites)","named_product_or_service":"VMware SD-WAN delivered with Expereo","service_family":"SD-WAN","estate":"9 branches; staff working at dozens of customer locations; 23 routers upgraded remotely","countries_or_regions":"Benelux","ot_or_production_environment":"Operates at customer sites in chemical, oil & gas, food, energy and steel industries; no SCADA/MES traffic detail stated","measured_or_stated_outcome":"23 router upgrades completed in under 15 minutes each (previously required on-site visits); 4G used as backup where fixed-line unavailable; full network visibility for partner traffic","industrial_standard_or_regulation":null,"regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"\"We have nine branches, and for large clients in the chemical, oil & gas, food, energy, and steel industry, we operate from a facility on their sites.\" \"We recently had to upgrade 23 routers, which used to be a relatively big project with onsite visits. Besides the necessary preparations, the actual upgrade now took us no longer than 15 minutes!\"","reviewer_summary":"Verified live 2026-09-15. Bilfinger is a real, named industrial-services company (works at manufacturer sites rather than being a manufacturer itself) - noted as a limitation rather than excluded, since it directly evidences connectivity into industrial/manufacturing environments including third-party/supplier traffic visibility.","limitation_and_notes":"Added 2026-09-15. Bilfinger is an industrial-services provider operating at manufacturer sites, not a manufacturer itself - relevant supporting evidence for third-party/supplier access and industrial-site connectivity, not a direct named-manufacturer case."}]},{"slug":"barracuda-secureedge","name":"Barracuda SecureEdge","marketplace_url":"https://netify.co.uk/marketplace/barracuda-secureedge/","research_status":"complete","overall_confidence":"low","fit_conclusion":"Searched twice for a named manufacturing customer of Barracuda SecureEdge (SASE/SD-WAN); none was found. Sector fit cannot currently be evidenced from open-web sources.","gaps_and_unknowns":"Searched again on 2026-09-10 specifically for a named manufacturing customer of Barracuda SecureEdge (SASE/SD-WAN) - none was found. Barracuda's own case-study material for this product line appears to be genuinely thin; this may need a direct approach to Barracuda's UK channel team rather than further open-web searching.","reviewed_by":"Harry Yelland","reviewed_date":"2026-09-10","source_count":1,"accepted_source_count":1,"requirements":[{"code":"factory_and_plant_connectivity","label":"Factory and plant connectivity","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_072"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"ot_and_it_segmentation","label":"OT and IT segmentation","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"industrial_iot","label":"Industrial IoT","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"edge_computing","label":"Edge computing","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"third_party_and_supplier_access","label":"Third-party and supplier access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"remote_engineer_access","label":"Remote engineer access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"resilience_and_uptime","label":"Resilience and uptime","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"multi_site_production","label":"Multi-site production","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"global_supply_chain","label":"Global supply chain","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity","label":"Cloud and data-centre connectivity","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_072"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"managed_operations","label":"Managed operations","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_072"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"network_visibility","label":"Network visibility","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_072"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"industrial_security_standards","label":"Industrial security standards","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"uk_delivery","label":"UK delivery","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"global_delivery","label":"Global delivery","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_072"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"}],"sources":[{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_072","workbook_source_id":"MFG-072","url":"https://blog.barracuda.com/2024/01/02/how-one-company-used-Barracuda-SASE-platform-to-speed-and-secure-business-operations","title":"How one company used Barracuda's SASE platform to speed and secure business operations","publisher":"blog.barracuda.com","publication_date":"2024-01-02","checked_date":"2026-09-15","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"accepted","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Named customer case study","requirement_codes":["cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity","factory_and_plant_connectivity","managed_operations","network_visibility","global_delivery"],"named_customer":"Ionbond","segment":"Specialty coatings and custom OEM components (aerospace, healthcare, automotive supply chain)","named_product_or_service":"Barracuda SecureEdge (SASE: SD-WAN, ZTNA, next-gen firewall)","service_family":"SASE","estate":"Dozens of service centres in at least 15 countries; 40+ SecureEdge devices deployed; team of 7 managing 1,500 devices and 70 servers","countries_or_regions":"At least 15 countries worldwide, including Asian service centres","ot_or_production_environment":"Produces specialised plastic coatings and custom OEM components; no SCADA/MES/plant-floor segmentation detail given","measured_or_stated_outcome":"90% reduction in MPLS costs; latency reduced by a third; firewall deployment cut from two days to two hours; two FTEs freed for other work; zero-touch deployment for 40+ devices","industrial_standard_or_regulation":null,"regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"\"We explained the challenges I was facing and that we wanted to use Azure as a network backbone. They presented us with the SecureEdge product and I immediately fell in love with it.\" - Benedict Groppe, Head of IT, Ionbond. \"From the first day we deployed them it was a flawless experience and gave us exactly what we were looking for.\" \"Zero Touch Deployment meant that they could be plugged in and would automatically connect to the SecureEdge Platform management console.\"","reviewer_summary":"Verified live 2026-09-15 (cross-platform lead, independently confirmed and strengthened with a named executive quote not in the original summary). Ionbond is real and named, product is explicitly SecureEdge's SD-WAN/SASE/ZTNA, with strong quantified outcomes.","limitation_and_notes":"Added 2026-09-15. Does not establish a specific factory OT deployment - evidence is at the IT/corporate network level (ERP access, device management), not plant-floor/OT specific."}]},{"slug":"checkpoint","name":"Check Point","marketplace_url":"https://netify.co.uk/marketplace/checkpoint/","research_status":"complete","overall_confidence":"medium","fit_conclusion":"Two named manufacturers now provide direct product evidence. Grupo Reyes uses Check Point SD-WAN across a group whose flagship manufacturer operates eight industrial complexes. Austrotherm uses Check Point SASE across operations in 13 countries, with remote-access issues eliminated and centralised visibility and control.","gaps_and_unknowns":"The evidence proves multi-site delivery, network visibility and international coverage, but it does not yet prove OT and IT segmentation, industrial IoT, edge computing, supplier access, industrial standards or UK delivery. Remote engineer access and production uptime remain Partial because the case studies describe general remote access and business continuity rather than engineers or measured factory uptime.","reviewed_by":"Netify research team","reviewed_date":"2026-09-16","source_count":2,"accepted_source_count":1,"requirements":[{"code":"factory_and_plant_connectivity","label":"Factory and plant connectivity","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_014"],"verified_date":"2026-09-16"},{"code":"ot_and_it_segmentation","label":"OT and IT segmentation","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"industrial_iot","label":"Industrial IoT","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"edge_computing","label":"Edge computing","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"third_party_and_supplier_access","label":"Third-party and supplier access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"remote_engineer_access","label":"Remote engineer access","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_014"],"verified_date":"2026-09-16"},{"code":"resilience_and_uptime","label":"Resilience and uptime","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_014"],"verified_date":"2026-09-16"},{"code":"multi_site_production","label":"Multi-site production","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_014"],"verified_date":"2026-09-16"},{"code":"global_supply_chain","label":"Global supply chain","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity","label":"Cloud and data-centre connectivity","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-16"},{"code":"managed_operations","label":"Managed operations","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"network_visibility","label":"Network visibility","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_014"],"verified_date":"2026-09-16"},{"code":"industrial_security_standards","label":"Industrial security standards","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"uk_delivery","label":"UK delivery","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"global_delivery","label":"Global delivery","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_014"],"verified_date":"2026-09-16"}],"sources":[{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_014","workbook_source_id":"MFG-014","url":"https://www.checkpoint.com/customer-stories/","title":"Check Point manufacturing customer stories: Austrotherm and Grupo Reyes","publisher":"checkpoint.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-09-16","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"accepted","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Named customer case studies","requirement_codes":["factory_and_plant_connectivity","remote_engineer_access","resilience_and_uptime","multi_site_production","network_visibility","global_delivery"],"named_customer":"Austrotherm; Grupo Reyes","segment":"Insulation materials; plastics and packaging","named_product_or_service":"Check Point SD-WAN; Check Point SASE Internet Access; Check Point SASE Private Access","service_family":"SD-WAN, SASE","estate":"Grupo Reyes: seven industrial complexes in Mexico and one in the United States. Austrotherm: named production sites and operations across 13 countries.","countries_or_regions":"Austrotherm: 13 countries across EMEA. Grupo Reyes: Mexico and the United States, with distribution into Central America.","ot_or_production_environment":"Named production sites and industrial complexes; no OT control-system deployment is stated.","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Austrotherm eliminated remote-access issues and recorded six months without VPN tickets, with centralised visibility and control. Grupo Reyes centralised security operations and reduced incidents.","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"Check Point SD-WAN; Centralized visibility and control; six months without VPN tickets.","reviewer_summary":"The live Check Point customer-stories page now exposes the full Austrotherm and Grupo Reyes case studies. They directly connect named Check Point SASE and SD-WAN products to named manufacturers, multi-site industrial estates, remote-access reliability, visibility and international delivery.","limitation_and_notes":"Provider-authored customer evidence. It supports four Proven requirements and two Partial requirements. It does not establish OT and IT segmentation, industrial IoT, edge computing, supplier access, industrial standards, UK delivery or measured factory uptime."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_015","workbook_source_id":"MFG-015","url":"https://www.checkpoint.com/quantum/sd-wan/","title":"Check Point SD-WAN (Quantum)","publisher":"checkpoint.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"superseded","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":[],"named_customer":"Israeli Ministry of Environmental Protection (not manufacturing); unnamed German manufacturing group","segment":"Unspecified","named_product_or_service":"Check Point Quantum SD-WAN","service_family":"SD-WAN","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"Germany (unnamed group)","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Not stated in the reviewed source","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"How Austrotherm Transformed IT Security Across 13 Countries with Unified SASE Architecture","reviewer_summary":"The strongest sector evidence in this task and the only sector where SASE and SD-WAN are named in the case study headlines themselves. Three cards carry Industry: Manufacturing, namely Austrotherm (SASE, 13 countries), Cendres+Metaux, and an unnamed Manufacturing Company headlined Expand Cloud and SD-WAN Success: The Customer's Journey to Global Network Resilience. The Quantum SD-WAN product page corroborates with a quote from a team leader of network and security at a German-based manufacturing group. No dedicated manufacturing industry page exists in the sitemap.","limitation_and_notes":"Supplier's SD-WAN product page. Names the Israeli Ministry of Environmental Protection with an attributed quote and an unnamed German-based manufacturing group. Vendor claim."}]},{"slug":"cisco","name":"Cisco","marketplace_url":"https://netify.co.uk/marketplace/cisco/","research_status":"complete","overall_confidence":"medium","fit_conclusion":"Kamstrup (Cisco SD-WAN + ThousandEyes) is a genuinely strong, quantified, named manufacturing case study - the best single piece of evidence found for Cisco. Four of 15 capability fields now have direct proof.","gaps_and_unknowns":"The remaining 11 fields (segmentation, IoT, edge, third-party/supplier access, remote engineer access, managed operations, industrial standards, UK/global supply chain) are not addressed by the Kamstrup case study and stay Not found. Nestle, Coca-Cola Icecek and The Sto Group remain named-but-unopened leads on the same customer-stories page.","reviewed_by":"Harry Yelland","reviewed_date":"2026-09-10","source_count":3,"accepted_source_count":1,"requirements":[{"code":"factory_and_plant_connectivity","label":"Factory and plant connectivity","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"ot_and_it_segmentation","label":"OT and IT segmentation","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"industrial_iot","label":"Industrial IoT","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"edge_computing","label":"Edge computing","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"third_party_and_supplier_access","label":"Third-party and supplier access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"remote_engineer_access","label":"Remote engineer access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"resilience_and_uptime","label":"Resilience and uptime","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_017"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"multi_site_production","label":"Multi-site production","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_017"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"global_supply_chain","label":"Global supply chain","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity","label":"Cloud and data-centre connectivity","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"managed_operations","label":"Managed operations","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_017"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"network_visibility","label":"Network visibility","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_017"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"industrial_security_standards","label":"Industrial security standards","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"uk_delivery","label":"UK delivery","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"global_delivery","label":"Global delivery","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_017"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"}],"sources":[{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_017","workbook_source_id":"MFG-068","url":"https://www.cisco.com/site/us/en/about/case-studies-customer-stories/kamstrup.html","title":"Cisco and Kamstrup Customer Case Study","publisher":"cisco.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-09-10","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"accepted","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Named customer case study","requirement_codes":["resilience_and_uptime","multi_site_production","managed_operations","network_visibility","global_delivery"],"named_customer":"Kamstrup","segment":"Electronics","named_product_or_service":"Cisco SD-WAN, Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, Cisco ThousandEyes","service_family":"SD-WAN","estate":"25 locations, 1,800 employees","countries_or_regions":"21+ countries; HQ Denmark, facility in Atlanta, USA","ot_or_production_environment":"Outages directly halted manufacturing production at the Atlanta facility","measured_or_stated_outcome":"40% less downtime, 50% faster mean time to repair (MTTR), 30% improved network availability/reliability, 20% fewer IT support tickets","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"\"Streamlined network operations with 40% less downtime\" / \"Improved end-to-end visibility with 50% faster mean time to repair (MTTR)\"","reviewer_summary":"Cisco's own case study, live and verified 2026-09-10. Kamstrup (smart metering manufacturer) deployed Cisco SD-WAN and ThousandEyes after outages between its Atlanta production facility and Denmark HQ were halting manufacturing for up to 30 minutes. Cisco explicitly categorises this case study under 'Manufacturing'. Quantified, named, and directly connects the product to a production-floor requirement.","limitation_and_notes":"The case study directly links SD-WAN to production outages and quantified improvements, but does not evidence OT/IT segmentation or an industrial security standard."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_016","workbook_source_id":"MFG-016","url":"https://www.cisco.com/site/us/en/solutions/networking/sdwan/index.html","title":"Cisco SD-WAN for a secure, future-ready workplace (Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN solution page)","publisher":"cisco.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"superseded","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":[],"named_customer":"Nestle, Coca-Cola Icecek, Kamstrup, HelloFresh, The Sto Group","segment":"Multiple","named_product_or_service":"Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN","service_family":"SD-WAN","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"Not stated in the reviewed source","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Not stated in the reviewed source","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"FedRAMP referenced (US government cloud authorisation - not an industrial/OT standard)","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"Kamstrup optimized its network with Cisco SD-WAN and ThousandEyes, enabling seamless global expansion.","reviewer_summary":"Kamstrup's case study carries Cisco's own Manufacturing industry label and lists Cisco SD-WAN and Cisco SD-WAN Manager. Coca-Cola Icecek, Nestle and The Sto Group are further named SD-WAN customers in manufacturing or food and beverage production.","limitation_and_notes":"Supplier's own primary SD-WAN solution page. Carries named customer story cards (Nestle, United Airlines, Coca-Cola Icecek, Kamstrup, HelloFresh, The Sto Group) and a FedRAMP government statement. Quotes re-verified on a second independent fetch and matched character for character."}]},{"slug":"colt","name":"Colt Technology Services","marketplace_url":"https://netify.co.uk/marketplace/colt/","research_status":"complete","overall_confidence":"medium","fit_conclusion":"Huisman is a strong, named, real heavy-industry manufacturer case study with an explicit product name and redundancy design - a solid first piece of independently-verified evidence for Colt.","gaps_and_unknowns":"No specific Huisman site count is available, which is why Multi-site production is Partial rather than Proven. Segmentation, IoT, edge computing and managed-operations fields remain unevidenced.","reviewed_by":"Harry Yelland","reviewed_date":"2026-09-10","source_count":1,"accepted_source_count":1,"requirements":[{"code":"factory_and_plant_connectivity","label":"Factory and plant connectivity","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"ot_and_it_segmentation","label":"OT and IT segmentation","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"industrial_iot","label":"Industrial IoT","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"edge_computing","label":"Edge computing","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"third_party_and_supplier_access","label":"Third-party and supplier access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"remote_engineer_access","label":"Remote engineer access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"resilience_and_uptime","label":"Resilience and uptime","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_020"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"multi_site_production","label":"Multi-site production","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_020"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"global_supply_chain","label":"Global supply chain","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity","label":"Cloud and data-centre connectivity","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_020"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"managed_operations","label":"Managed operations","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"network_visibility","label":"Network visibility","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"industrial_security_standards","label":"Industrial security standards","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"uk_delivery","label":"UK delivery","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"global_delivery","label":"Global delivery","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_020"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"}],"sources":[{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_020","workbook_source_id":"MFG-020","url":"https://www.colt.net/customer-stories/huisman","title":"Colt provides SD WAN and Secure Network Gateway to Huisman, in partnership with Zscaler","publisher":"colt.net","publication_date":"2023-02-16","checked_date":"2026-09-10","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"accepted","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Named customer case study","requirement_codes":["cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity","resilience_and_uptime","multi_site_production","global_delivery"],"named_customer":"Huisman","segment":"Heavy industry","named_product_or_service":"Colt SD WAN, Colt Secure Network Gateway (with Zscaler)","service_family":"SASE","estate":"Not stated (multiple global sites, each with dual MPLS + dual internet access)","countries_or_regions":"Global (Netherlands-headquartered heavy-lift/crane manufacturer)","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated directly, but protects \"sensitive engineering data\"","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Resilient connectivity across global sites; simplified network management; enhanced cybersecurity for engineering data","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"\"Resilient connectivity across global sites to support collaboration and data exchange... Enhanced cybersecurity, protecting sensitive engineering data from evolving threats.\"","reviewer_summary":"Colt's own case study, live and verified 2026-09-10. Huisman is a real, named Dutch heavy-lift/marine crane and offshore-equipment manufacturer. Named product (SD WAN + Secure Network Gateway with Zscaler), redundant per-site design (dual MPLS + dual internet), explicit engineering-data security framing.","limitation_and_notes":"Supplier-published case study. It does not state the number of sites or describe factory-floor OT architecture."}]},{"slug":"aryaka","name":"Aryaka","marketplace_url":"https://netify.co.uk/marketplace/aryaka/","research_status":"complete","overall_confidence":"low","fit_conclusion":"Sector fit is credible - a dedicated manufacturing page plus four named customer case studies (AL-KO, Thetford, Albemarle, Wabtec) - but every capability field rests on vendor-published case studies, not an independent source, so this reads as a strong lead list rather than proven fit.","gaps_and_unknowns":"AL-KO (19 sites), Thetford (20+ sites) and Wabtec (50+ locations, Managed SD-WAN) are logged as Superseded, not Accepted - promoting these to their own Accepted rows would move Multi-site production and Managed operations from Partial to Proven. OT/IT segmentation, Industrial IoT, edge computing and industrial standards have no supporting evidence at all yet.","reviewed_by":"Harry Yelland","reviewed_date":"2026-09-09","source_count":5,"accepted_source_count":1,"requirements":[{"code":"factory_and_plant_connectivity","label":"Factory and plant connectivity","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_001"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"ot_and_it_segmentation","label":"OT and IT segmentation","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"industrial_iot","label":"Industrial IoT","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"edge_computing","label":"Edge computing","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"third_party_and_supplier_access","label":"Third-party and supplier access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"remote_engineer_access","label":"Remote engineer access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"resilience_and_uptime","label":"Resilience and uptime","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_002"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"multi_site_production","label":"Multi-site production","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_002","src_manufacturing_mfg_003","src_manufacturing_mfg_005"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"global_supply_chain","label":"Global supply chain","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity","label":"Cloud and data-centre connectivity","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"managed_operations","label":"Managed operations","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_005"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"network_visibility","label":"Network visibility","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_001"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"industrial_security_standards","label":"Industrial security standards","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"uk_delivery","label":"UK delivery","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"global_delivery","label":"Global delivery","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_003","src_manufacturing_mfg_005"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"}],"sources":[{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_001","workbook_source_id":"MFG-001","url":"https://www.aryaka.com/industries/manufacturing-connectivity-security/","title":"Enhancing Manufacturing Connectivity and Security","publisher":"aryaka.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"accepted","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":["factory_and_plant_connectivity","network_visibility"],"named_customer":"Multiple (hub page; case studies logged separately in MFG-002-005)","segment":"Multiple","named_product_or_service":"Not named on this hub page","service_family":"Supporting only","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"Not stated in the reviewed source","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Not stated in the reviewed source","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"Enhancing Manufacturing Connectivity and Security","reviewer_summary":"The strongest sector by a distance. A dedicated industry page plus at least five named manufacturing customers with published case studies: Albemarle (Fortune 1000 chemicals), Hubbell, Thetford, AL-KO and Wabtec, with Lauridsen Group International also cited as a global manufacturer. The manufacturing page carries the case study line 'Hubbell Supercharges Global Application Performance, Visibility and Security'.","limitation_and_notes":"Supplier's own dedicated manufacturing industry page carrying three named customer case studies. Strong for sector grading; vendor marketing so unaudited."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_002","workbook_source_id":"MFG-002","url":"https://www.aryaka.com/case-study/al-ko/","title":"AL-KO Drastically Reduces TCO, Outages, and Onboarding Times","publisher":"aryaka.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"superseded","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":["resilience_and_uptime","multi_site_production"],"named_customer":"AL-KO","segment":"Industrial equipment","named_product_or_service":"Aryaka SD-WAN (by page context, not quoted verbatim)","service_family":"SD-WAN","estate":"~700 staff, 19 sites","countries_or_regions":"Germany","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Title claims reduced TCO, outages and onboarding times; no % given","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"Enhancing Manufacturing Connectivity and Security","reviewer_summary":"The strongest sector by a distance. A dedicated industry page plus at least five named manufacturing customers with published case studies: Albemarle (Fortune 1000 chemicals), Hubbell, Thetford, AL-KO and Wabtec, with Lauridsen Group International also cited as a global manufacturer. The manufacturing page carries the case study line 'Hubbell Supercharges Global Application Performance, Visibility and Security'.","limitation_and_notes":"Supplier's own named case study. Useful for organisation size: describes a German mid-sized manufacturer of roughly 700 staff and 19 sites."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_003","workbook_source_id":"MFG-003","url":"https://www.aryaka.com/case-study/thetford/","title":"Thetford Drives SD-WAN ROI & Business Value","publisher":"aryaka.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"superseded","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":["multi_site_production","global_delivery"],"named_customer":"Thetford","segment":"Consumer goods","named_product_or_service":"Aryaka SD-WAN (by page context, not quoted verbatim)","service_family":"SD-WAN","estate":"20+ sites","countries_or_regions":"North America, Europe, Asia","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Title claims ROI/business value; no figure given","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"Enhancing Manufacturing Connectivity and Security","reviewer_summary":"The strongest sector by a distance. A dedicated industry page plus at least five named manufacturing customers with published case studies: Albemarle (Fortune 1000 chemicals), Hubbell, Thetford, AL-KO and Wabtec, with Lauridsen Group International also cited as a global manufacturer. The manufacturing page carries the case study line 'Hubbell Supercharges Global Application Performance, Visibility and Security'.","limitation_and_notes":"Supplier's own named manufacturing case study, over 20 sites across North America, Europe and Asia."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_004","workbook_source_id":"MFG-004","url":"https://www.aryaka.com/case-study/albemarle/","title":"Albemarle Reduced Drop & Jitter Rates to <1%","publisher":"aryaka.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"superseded","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":[],"named_customer":"Albemarle","segment":"Chemicals","named_product_or_service":"Aryaka SD-WAN (by page context, not quoted verbatim)","service_family":"SD-WAN","estate":"5,000+ employees","countries_or_regions":"Not stated in the reviewed source","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Drop and jitter rates reduced to <1%","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"Enhancing Manufacturing Connectivity and Security","reviewer_summary":"The strongest sector by a distance. A dedicated industry page plus at least five named manufacturing customers with published case studies: Albemarle (Fortune 1000 chemicals), Hubbell, Thetford, AL-KO and Wabtec, with Lauridsen Group International also cited as a global manufacturer. The manufacturing page carries the case study line 'Hubbell Supercharges Global Application Performance, Visibility and Security'.","limitation_and_notes":"Supplier's own named case study. Fortune 1000 chemical manufacturer, over 5,000 employees. Supports manufacturing and large enterprise."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_005","workbook_source_id":"MFG-005","url":"https://www.aryaka.com/case-study/wabtec/","title":"Wabtec Supports Global Growth with Faster, More Flexible and Secure Managed SD-WAN Network","publisher":"aryaka.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"superseded","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":["multi_site_production","managed_operations","global_delivery"],"named_customer":"Wabtec","segment":"Heavy industry","named_product_or_service":"Managed SD-WAN Network","service_family":"Managed SD-WAN","estate":"29,000 employees, 50+ locations","countries_or_regions":"Not stated specifically (global; rail and manufacturing)","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Title claims support for global growth; no figure given","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"Enhancing Manufacturing Connectivity and Security","reviewer_summary":"The strongest sector by a distance. A dedicated industry page plus at least five named manufacturing customers with published case studies: Albemarle (Fortune 1000 chemicals), Hubbell, Thetford, AL-KO and Wabtec, with Lauridsen Group International also cited as a global manufacturer. The manufacturing page carries the case study line 'Hubbell Supercharges Global Application Performance, Visibility and Security'.","limitation_and_notes":"Supplier's own named case study. 29,000 employees, 50+ locations. Sits across manufacturing and rail transport."}]},{"slug":"orangebusiness","name":"Orange Business","marketplace_url":"https://netify.co.uk/marketplace/orangebusiness/","research_status":"complete","overall_confidence":"low","fit_conclusion":"The Siemens press release (1,168 sites across 94 countries) is the single strongest multi-site data point found across the whole workbook, giving Orange genuine Proven status on both Multi-site production and Global delivery.","gaps_and_unknowns":"The Siemens source is a dated press release, so it's worth confirming the deployment is still current. Saint-Gobain's supply-chain/IoT case study and Weener Plastics' 24-site deployment sit as Superseded and would add further Proven fields if promoted and re-verified.","reviewed_by":"Harry Yelland","reviewed_date":"2026-09-09","source_count":4,"accepted_source_count":1,"requirements":[{"code":"factory_and_plant_connectivity","label":"Factory and plant connectivity","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"ot_and_it_segmentation","label":"OT and IT segmentation","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"industrial_iot","label":"Industrial IoT","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_049"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"edge_computing","label":"Edge computing","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"third_party_and_supplier_access","label":"Third-party and supplier access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"remote_engineer_access","label":"Remote engineer access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"resilience_and_uptime","label":"Resilience and uptime","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"multi_site_production","label":"Multi-site production","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_050"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"global_supply_chain","label":"Global supply chain","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_049"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity","label":"Cloud and data-centre connectivity","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"managed_operations","label":"Managed operations","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"network_visibility","label":"Network visibility","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"industrial_security_standards","label":"Industrial security standards","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"uk_delivery","label":"UK delivery","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"global_delivery","label":"Global delivery","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_050"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"}],"sources":[{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_050","workbook_source_id":"MFG-050","url":"https://www.orange-business.com/en/press/orange-business-services-delivers-flexible-sd-wan-siemens-worldwide-majority-corporate","title":"Orange Business delivers Flexible SD-WAN to Siemens worldwide with majority of corporate applications accessed securely via Internet","publisher":"orange-business.com","publication_date":"2022-04-27","checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"accepted","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":["multi_site_production","global_delivery"],"named_customer":"Siemens","segment":"Multiple","named_product_or_service":"Flexible SD-WAN","service_family":"SD-WAN","estate":"1,168 sites","countries_or_regions":"94 countries","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"1,168 sites migrated across 94 countries (dated press release)","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"1,168 Siemens sites in 94 countries now successfully migrated to SD-WAN as part of its digital transformation program","reviewer_summary":"Strongest sector for SD-WAN specifically. Siemens is a named global industrial customer with a stated site and country count. Corroborated by Weener Plastics (packaging manufacturer, Flexible SD-WAN across Europe, Asia and Latin America), Colgate-Palmolive (SD-WAN across offices, branches and manufacturing plants) and Saint-Gobain Glass, which the supplier tags 'Manufacturing'.","limitation_and_notes":"Dated supplier press release naming a global industrial customer with a specific site and country count. Strongest manufacturing and large enterprise evidence found."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_048","workbook_source_id":"MFG-048","url":"https://www.orange-business.com/en/about-us/customer-stories/colgate-palmolive-adopts-sd-wan-enable-business-agility-change","title":"Colgate-Palmolive adopts SD-WAN to help enable business agility and change","publisher":"orange-business.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"superseded","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":[],"named_customer":"Colgate-Palmolive","segment":"Consumer goods","named_product_or_service":"Orange Business SD-WAN","service_family":"SD-WAN","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"Not stated in the reviewed source","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"No date shown on page, per note","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"1,168 Siemens sites in 94 countries now successfully migrated to SD-WAN as part of its digital transformation program","reviewer_summary":"Strongest sector for SD-WAN specifically. Siemens is a named global industrial customer with a stated site and country count. Corroborated by Weener Plastics (packaging manufacturer, Flexible SD-WAN across Europe, Asia and Latin America), Colgate-Palmolive (SD-WAN across offices, branches and manufacturing plants) and Saint-Gobain Glass, which the supplier tags 'Manufacturing'.","limitation_and_notes":"Supplier case study, named global consumer goods customer, explicitly SD-WAN. No date shown on the page."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_049","workbook_source_id":"MFG-049","url":"https://www.orange-business.com/en/about-us/customer-stories/saint-gobain-glass","title":"Saint-Gobain Glass optimizes its supply chain with IoT technology","publisher":"orange-business.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"superseded","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":["global_supply_chain","industrial_iot"],"named_customer":"Saint-Gobain Glass","segment":"Heavy industry","named_product_or_service":"IoT technology (supply chain optimisation)","service_family":"Supporting only","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"Europe (site count stated on page)","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Not stated in the reviewed source","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"1,168 Siemens sites in 94 countries now successfully migrated to SD-WAN as part of its digital transformation program","reviewer_summary":"Strongest sector for SD-WAN specifically. Siemens is a named global industrial customer with a stated site and country count. Corroborated by Weener Plastics (packaging manufacturer, Flexible SD-WAN across Europe, Asia and Latin America), Colgate-Palmolive (SD-WAN across offices, branches and manufacturing plants) and Saint-Gobain Glass, which the supplier tags 'Manufacturing'.","limitation_and_notes":"Supplier case study tagged Manufacturing with a named industrial customer and a stated European site count. IoT scope."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_051","workbook_source_id":"MFG-051","url":"https://www.orange-business.com/en/press/weener-plastics-chooses-flexible-sd-wan-orange-business-services-improve-agility","title":"Weener Plastics chooses Flexible SD-WAN from Orange Business to improve agility","publisher":"orange-business.com","publication_date":"2019-01-30","checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"superseded","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":[],"named_customer":"Weener Plastics","segment":"Consumer goods","named_product_or_service":"Flexible SD-WAN","service_family":"SD-WAN","estate":"24 sites","countries_or_regions":"Europe, Asia, Latin America","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"24-site SD-WAN deployment (dated; now aged, per note)","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"1,168 Siemens sites in 94 countries now successfully migrated to SD-WAN as part of its digital transformation program","reviewer_summary":"Strongest sector for SD-WAN specifically. Siemens is a named global industrial customer with a stated site and country count. Corroborated by Weener Plastics (packaging manufacturer, Flexible SD-WAN across Europe, Asia and Latin America), Colgate-Palmolive (SD-WAN across offices, branches and manufacturing plants) and Saint-Gobain Glass, which the supplier tags 'Manufacturing'.","limitation_and_notes":"Dated supplier press release naming a mid-sized packaging manufacturer with a 24 site SD-WAN deployment spanning Europe, Asia and Latin America. Smallest named SD-WAN reference found. Now dated."}]},{"slug":"ntt-data","name":"NTT DATA","marketplace_url":"https://netify.co.uk/marketplace/ntt-data/","research_status":"complete","overall_confidence":"low","fit_conclusion":"The HUBER+SUHNER case study is genuinely strong evidence - a named manufacturer, a named product ('Managed SD-WAN'), and an explicit China-to-global connectivity claim - making NTT DATA one of only five providers with Proven capabilities from a single source.","gaps_and_unknowns":"No specific site count is given for HUBER+SUHNER, which is why Multi-site production is only Partial rather than Proven. NXP Semiconductors, Honda, Hitachi, Inteva Products and Asahi Glass are named on a separate index but not individually opened.","reviewed_by":"Harry Yelland","reviewed_date":"2026-09-09","source_count":3,"accepted_source_count":1,"requirements":[{"code":"factory_and_plant_connectivity","label":"Factory and plant connectivity","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"ot_and_it_segmentation","label":"OT and IT segmentation","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"industrial_iot","label":"Industrial IoT","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"edge_computing","label":"Edge computing","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"third_party_and_supplier_access","label":"Third-party and supplier access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"remote_engineer_access","label":"Remote engineer access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"resilience_and_uptime","label":"Resilience and uptime","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"multi_site_production","label":"Multi-site production","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_044"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"global_supply_chain","label":"Global supply chain","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity","label":"Cloud and data-centre connectivity","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"managed_operations","label":"Managed operations","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_044"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"network_visibility","label":"Network visibility","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"industrial_security_standards","label":"Industrial security standards","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"uk_delivery","label":"UK delivery","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"global_delivery","label":"Global delivery","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_044"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"}],"sources":[{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_044","workbook_source_id":"MFG-044","url":"https://services.global.ntt/en-us/about-us/case-studies/huber-suhner","title":"Managed SD-WAN links HUBER+SUHNER in China to rest of world | NTT DATA","publisher":"services.global.ntt","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"accepted","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":["multi_site_production","managed_operations","global_delivery"],"named_customer":"HUBER+SUHNER","segment":"Electronics","named_product_or_service":"Managed SD-WAN","service_family":"Managed SD-WAN","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"China, 'rest of world'","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Qualitative claim only, no figure given","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"As a global manufacturer of fiber optic and radio frequency products, HUBER+SUHNER understands the power of connectivity.","reviewer_summary":"Named manufacturer with a published managed SD-WAN case study. Corroborated by the supplier's network case study index (evidence 19), which is dominated by manufacturers and industrials including NXP Semiconductors, Honda Motor Co., Hitachi, Inteva Products and Asahi Glass, several tagged to NTT Global Network Services or Software-Defined Network Service. A dedicated Manufacturing industry page also exists in the industry index.","limitation_and_notes":"Supplier-published named case study. Strongest manufacturing and mainland China SD-WAN delivery evidence found."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_045","workbook_source_id":"MFG-045","url":"https://www.nttdata.com/global/en/services/enterprise-networking","title":"Enterprise Networking | NTT DATA Group","publisher":"nttdata.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"superseded","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":[],"named_customer":"Not applicable (no single named customer on this page)","segment":"Unspecified","named_product_or_service":"Not stated in the reviewed source","service_family":"Not relevant","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"190+ countries (general company claim, not manufacturing-specific)","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"IDC MarketScape Asia/Pacific SD-WAN/SASE leader reference (general company claim)","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"As a global manufacturer of fiber optic and radio frequency products, HUBER+SUHNER understands the power of connectivity.","reviewer_summary":"Named manufacturer with a published managed SD-WAN case study. Corroborated by the supplier's network case study index (evidence 19), which is dominated by manufacturers and industrials including NXP Semiconductors, Honda Motor Co., Hitachi, Inteva Products and Asahi Glass, several tagged to NTT Global Network Services or Software-Defined Network Service. A dedicated Manufacturing industry page also exists in the industry index.","limitation_and_notes":"Supplier's global enterprise networking page. Carries the 190+ country SD-WAN claim and the IDC MarketScape Asia/Pacific SD-WAN/SASE reference."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_046","workbook_source_id":"MFG-046","url":"https://www.nttglobal.net/case-studies/","title":"Managed Network Services case studies for NTT and Virtela | NTT Global Networks","publisher":"nttglobal.net","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"superseded","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":[],"named_customer":"NXP Semiconductors, Honda Motor Co., Hitachi, Inteva Products, Asahi Glass","segment":"Multiple","named_product_or_service":"NTT Global Network Services / Software-Defined Network Service (tagged to some customers)","service_family":"Multiple","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"Japan-heavy customer base, per note","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Not stated in the reviewed source","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"As a global manufacturer of fiber optic and radio frequency products, HUBER+SUHNER understands the power of connectivity.","reviewer_summary":"Named manufacturer with a published managed SD-WAN case study. Corroborated by the supplier's network case study index (evidence 19), which is dominated by manufacturers and industrials including NXP Semiconductors, Honda Motor Co., Hitachi, Inteva Products and Asahi Glass, several tagged to NTT Global Network Services or Software-Defined Network Service. A dedicated Manufacturing industry page also exists in the industry index.","limitation_and_notes":"Supplier's network case study index. Useful for identifying named network customers, mostly Japanese manufacturers and industrials."}]},{"slug":"velocloud","name":"VeloCloud","marketplace_url":"https://netify.co.uk/marketplace/velocloud/","research_status":"complete","overall_confidence":"low","fit_conclusion":"Michelin is an outstanding, named, quantified, officially-tagged 'Manufacturing' case study from VMware/VeloCloud itself - one of the strongest single sources in the entire workbook, and enough on its own to move VeloCloud from zero evidence to genuinely Proven on two fields.","gaps_and_unknowns":"The case study doesn't address segmentation, IoT, edge computing, resilience/uptime or managed-operations fields, which remain Not found. 'Fast, Secure Manufacturing Site Links with VMware SD-WAN' is a further named case study on VMware's own blog, not yet opened.","reviewed_by":"Harry Yelland","reviewed_date":"2026-09-10","source_count":1,"accepted_source_count":1,"requirements":[{"code":"factory_and_plant_connectivity","label":"Factory and plant connectivity","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"ot_and_it_segmentation","label":"OT and IT segmentation","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"industrial_iot","label":"Industrial IoT","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"edge_computing","label":"Edge computing","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"third_party_and_supplier_access","label":"Third-party and supplier access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"remote_engineer_access","label":"Remote engineer access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"resilience_and_uptime","label":"Resilience and uptime","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"multi_site_production","label":"Multi-site production","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_056"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"global_supply_chain","label":"Global supply chain","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity","label":"Cloud and data-centre connectivity","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_056"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"managed_operations","label":"Managed operations","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"network_visibility","label":"Network visibility","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"industrial_security_standards","label":"Industrial security standards","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"uk_delivery","label":"UK delivery","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"global_delivery","label":"Global delivery","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_056"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"}],"sources":[{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_056","workbook_source_id":"MFG-056","url":"https://blogs.vmware.com/sase/2023/01/10/michelin-connects-200-sites-achieves-roi-in-16-months-with-vmware-sd-wan/","title":"How Michelin connects its 200 sites worldwide (VMware SD-WAN customer success story)","publisher":"blogs.vmware.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-09-16","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"accepted","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Named customer case study","requirement_codes":["cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity","multi_site_production","global_delivery"],"named_customer":"Michelin","segment":"Automotive","named_product_or_service":"VMware SD-WAN (VeloCloud)","service_family":"SD-WAN","estate":"200+ sites; 120,000+ employees","countries_or_regions":"170 countries; HQ Clermont-Ferrand, France","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated (corporate/site WAN; not described as reaching the factory floor specifically)","measured_or_stated_outcome":"16-month return on investment; each site combines MPLS and internet links for optimal cost/performance balance","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"\"The deployment of our SD-WAN in 16 months at more than 200 sites worldwide now allows us to provide nearly 120,000 users with all the bandwidth they need...\" - Pauline Flament, Chief Technology Officer, Michelin","reviewer_summary":"VMware/VeloCloud's own case study (official PDF at vmware.com), live and verified 2026-09-10, with a named, attributed quote from Michelin's CTO. VMware explicitly tags the case study industry as 'Manufacturing'. This is a leading global tyre and materials manufacturer - one of the strongest single pieces of evidence found across the entire workbook.","limitation_and_notes":"Official VMware case study. It proves a global corporate and site WAN deployment, but does not describe factory-floor OT segmentation or industrial security standards."}]},{"slug":"verizon","name":"Verizon Business","marketplace_url":"https://netify.co.uk/marketplace/verizon/","research_status":"complete","overall_confidence":"low","fit_conclusion":"A global SD-WAN/LAN rollout led by Verizon Professional Services, plus a separate UK-based SASE case study describing a move away from physical firewalls, together give Verizon Proven status on Managed operations and Global delivery - solid for a provider with an anonymised customer.","gaps_and_unknowns":"Both usable case studies describe the customer only by geography, not by name, so Multi-site production stays Partial rather than Proven. Finding the named customer behind either case study would be the single highest-value next step for this provider.","reviewed_by":"Harry Yelland","reviewed_date":"2026-09-09","source_count":3,"accepted_source_count":1,"requirements":[{"code":"factory_and_plant_connectivity","label":"Factory and plant connectivity","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"ot_and_it_segmentation","label":"OT and IT segmentation","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"industrial_iot","label":"Industrial IoT","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"edge_computing","label":"Edge computing","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"third_party_and_supplier_access","label":"Third-party and supplier access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"remote_engineer_access","label":"Remote engineer access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"resilience_and_uptime","label":"Resilience and uptime","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"multi_site_production","label":"Multi-site production","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_057"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"global_supply_chain","label":"Global supply chain","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity","label":"Cloud and data-centre connectivity","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_059"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"managed_operations","label":"Managed operations","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_057"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"network_visibility","label":"Network visibility","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"industrial_security_standards","label":"Industrial security standards","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"uk_delivery","label":"UK delivery","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_059"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"global_delivery","label":"Global delivery","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_057"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"}],"sources":[{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_057","workbook_source_id":"MFG-057","url":"https://www.verizon.com/business/resources/customer-success-stories/manufacturing-giant/","title":"Manufacturing SD-WAN Use Case | Verizon Business","publisher":"verizon.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"accepted","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":["multi_site_production","managed_operations","global_delivery"],"named_customer":"Not named (anonymised)","segment":"Unspecified","named_product_or_service":"Not stated (Verizon Professional Services led rollout)","service_family":"SD-WAN","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"Not stated specifically (global)","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Not stated in the reviewed source","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"Verizon Professional Services provided a detailed plan for SD WAN design and roll-out, while engineers prepared the manufacturer's LANs.","reviewer_summary":"The strongest sector in this set. There is both an SD-WAN case study, quoted here, describing a global build book, LAN refresh and MPLS offload, and a separate SASE case study describing a UK-based manufacturing business reducing physical firewalls through zero trust network access. Both customers are anonymised. Manufacturing also has a dedicated industry page.","limitation_and_notes":"Supplier's own case study. Customer anonymised. Describes a global SD-WAN and LAN rollout with Verizon Professional Services."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_058","workbook_source_id":"MFG-058","url":"https://www.verizon.com/business/solutions/industry/","title":"Industry Solutions and Services | Verizon","publisher":"verizon.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"superseded","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":[],"named_customer":"Not applicable (no single named customer on this page)","segment":"Unspecified","named_product_or_service":"Not stated in the reviewed source","service_family":"Not relevant","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"Not stated in the reviewed source","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Not stated in the reviewed source","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"Verizon Professional Services provided a detailed plan for SD WAN design and roll-out, while engineers prepared the manufacturer's LANs.","reviewer_summary":"The strongest sector in this set. There is both an SD-WAN case study, quoted here, describing a global build book, LAN refresh and MPLS offload, and a separate SASE case study describing a UK-based manufacturing business reducing physical firewalls through zero trust network access. Both customers are anonymised. Manufacturing also has a dedicated industry page.","limitation_and_notes":"Supplier's own industry index. Establishes which sectors have a dedicated industry page. Does not itself evidence SD-WAN or SASE capability per sector."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_059","workbook_source_id":"MFG-059","url":"https://www.verizon.com/business/en-gb/resources/customer-success-stories/sase-secures-manufacturing-brand-future/","title":"How SASE secured a Manufacturing Brand's Future | Verizon (en-gb)","publisher":"verizon.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"superseded","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":["cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity","uk_delivery"],"named_customer":"Not named (anonymised, UK-based manufacturer)","segment":"Unspecified","named_product_or_service":"Not stated in the reviewed source","service_family":"SASE","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"UK","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Migration off firewalls/MPLS - qualitative claim, no figure","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"Verizon Professional Services provided a detailed plan for SD WAN design and roll-out, while engineers prepared the manufacturer's LANs.","reviewer_summary":"The strongest sector in this set. There is both an SD-WAN case study, quoted here, describing a global build book, LAN refresh and MPLS offload, and a separate SASE case study describing a UK-based manufacturing business reducing physical firewalls through zero trust network access. Both customers are anonymised. Manufacturing also has a dedicated industry page.","limitation_and_notes":"Supplier's own SASE case study. Strongest single piece of evidence in this set: identifies the customer as a UK-based manufacturer and describes a zero trust and cloud security migration off firewalls and MPLS. Customer not named."}]},{"slug":"att","name":"AT&T Business","marketplace_url":"https://netify.co.uk/marketplace/att/","research_status":"complete","overall_confidence":"low","fit_conclusion":"AT&T's own manufacturing material is explicitly IoT and connectivity led, not SD-WAN/SASE led - useful for the Industrial IoT field but a weak fit for the SD-WAN/SASE capabilities this workbook is really testing for.","gaps_and_unknowns":"No named manufacturing customer has been found using AT&T's SD-WAN or SASE product specifically - the accepted source is a general 'connect your factory' marketing page. Segmentation, edge computing, resilience and multi-site fields all need a genuine named SD-WAN/SASE case study to move past Not found.","reviewed_by":"Harry Yelland","reviewed_date":"2026-09-09","source_count":3,"accepted_source_count":1,"requirements":[{"code":"factory_and_plant_connectivity","label":"Factory and plant connectivity","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_008"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"ot_and_it_segmentation","label":"OT and IT segmentation","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"industrial_iot","label":"Industrial IoT","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_008"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"edge_computing","label":"Edge computing","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"third_party_and_supplier_access","label":"Third-party and supplier access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"remote_engineer_access","label":"Remote engineer access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"resilience_and_uptime","label":"Resilience and uptime","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_008"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"multi_site_production","label":"Multi-site production","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"global_supply_chain","label":"Global supply chain","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_008"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity","label":"Cloud and data-centre connectivity","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"managed_operations","label":"Managed operations","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"network_visibility","label":"Network visibility","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"industrial_security_standards","label":"Industrial security standards","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"uk_delivery","label":"UK delivery","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"global_delivery","label":"Global delivery","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"}],"sources":[{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_008","workbook_source_id":"MFG-008","url":"https://www.business.att.com/industries/manufacturing.html","title":"IOT Network and Technology Solutions for Manufacturers at AT&T Business","publisher":"business.att.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"accepted","reviewer_confidence":"medium","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":["factory_and_plant_connectivity","resilience_and_uptime","global_supply_chain","industrial_iot"],"named_customer":"Alfa Laval, ACT Pipe & Supply","segment":"Multiple","named_product_or_service":"IoT Network and Technology Solutions (page name); not SD-WAN/SASE","service_family":"Not relevant","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"Not stated in the reviewed source","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Not stated in the reviewed source","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"AT&T Business delivers the right insights, guidance, and highly secure solutions to help you connect your factory environment, simplify your supply chain, enable your digital transformation, and make your business more resilient.","reviewer_summary":"A dedicated manufacturing industry page exists and source 3 labels Alfa Laval and ACT Pipe & Supply as Manufacturing customers. Confidence is capped at medium for the SASE and SD-WAN context because every named manufacturing customer found is an IoT, fibre or dedicated internet story. No manufacturing SD-WAN or SASE case study was found.","limitation_and_notes":"Dedicated supplier sector page for manufacturing with a named customer. Vendor material; manufacturing evidence is IoT and connectivity led rather than SD-WAN led."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_006","workbook_source_id":"MFG-006","url":"https://www.business.att.com/learn/customer-stories.html","title":"Customer Stories | AT&T Business","publisher":"business.att.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"superseded","reviewer_confidence":"medium","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":[],"named_customer":"Multiple (index page; individual cards not opened)","segment":"Unspecified","named_product_or_service":"Not stated in the reviewed source","service_family":"Not relevant","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"Not stated in the reviewed source","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Not stated in the reviewed source","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"AT&T Business delivers the right insights, guidance, and highly secure solutions to help you connect your factory environment, simplify your supply chain, enable your digital transformation, and make your business more resilient.","reviewer_summary":"A dedicated manufacturing industry page exists and source 3 labels Alfa Laval and ACT Pipe & Supply as Manufacturing customers. Confidence is capped at medium for the SASE and SD-WAN context because every named manufacturing customer found is an IoT, fibre or dedicated internet story. No manufacturing SD-WAN or SASE case study was found.","limitation_and_notes":"Supplier customer story index with explicit industry labels per card. Useful because AT&T itself assigns the sector label, but most cards are fibre, IoT or wireless rather than SD-WAN or SASE."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_007","workbook_source_id":"MFG-007","url":"https://www.business.att.com/industries.html","title":"Digital Transformation Technology & Solutions at AT&T Business (Industries index)","publisher":"business.att.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"superseded","reviewer_confidence":"medium","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":[],"named_customer":"Not applicable (no single named customer on this page)","segment":"Unspecified","named_product_or_service":"Not stated in the reviewed source","service_family":"Not relevant","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"Not stated in the reviewed source","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Not stated in the reviewed source","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"AT&T Business delivers the right insights, guidance, and highly secure solutions to help you connect your factory environment, simplify your supply chain, enable your digital transformation, and make your business more resilient.","reviewer_summary":"A dedicated manufacturing industry page exists and source 3 labels Alfa Laval and ACT Pipe & Supply as Manufacturing customers. Confidence is capped at medium for the SASE and SD-WAN context because every named manufacturing customer found is an IoT, fibre or dedicated internet story. No manufacturing SD-WAN or SASE case study was found.","limitation_and_notes":"Supplier index establishing which industries have dedicated pages. Definitive for scoping which sectors AT&T chooses to publish for, but says nothing about depth. [SD-WAN/SASE/SSE field: AT&T's own industries index - lists which sectors have a page at all; carries no product or SD-WAN/SASE/SSE content itself.]"}]},{"slug":"bt","name":"BT","marketplace_url":"https://netify.co.uk/marketplace/bt/","research_status":"complete","overall_confidence":"low","fit_conclusion":"The only named case study (Rolls-Royce) is a Managed Azure Network Services engagement, not BT's own SD-WAN/SASE product, so this is closer to 'BT can deliver cloud-managed connectivity for a UK manufacturer' than 'BT's SD-WAN/SASE is proven in manufacturing'.","gaps_and_unknowns":"DP World Antwerp and Karcher are named on the same page but have no engagement detail behind them - opening those two case studies individually is the fastest way to add real evidence. No source yet ties BT to segmentation, IoT, edge, resilience or multi-site fields.","reviewed_by":"Harry Yelland","reviewed_date":"2026-09-09","source_count":2,"accepted_source_count":1,"requirements":[{"code":"factory_and_plant_connectivity","label":"Factory and plant connectivity","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"ot_and_it_segmentation","label":"OT and IT segmentation","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"industrial_iot","label":"Industrial IoT","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"edge_computing","label":"Edge computing","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"third_party_and_supplier_access","label":"Third-party and supplier access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"remote_engineer_access","label":"Remote engineer access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"resilience_and_uptime","label":"Resilience and uptime","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"multi_site_production","label":"Multi-site production","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"global_supply_chain","label":"Global supply chain","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity","label":"Cloud and data-centre connectivity","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_010"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"managed_operations","label":"Managed operations","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_010"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"network_visibility","label":"Network visibility","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"industrial_security_standards","label":"Industrial security standards","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"uk_delivery","label":"UK delivery","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_010"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"global_delivery","label":"Global delivery","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_010"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"}],"sources":[{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_010","workbook_source_id":"MFG-010","url":"https://www.globalservices.bt.com/btfederal/digital-industries/manufacturing","title":"Manufacturing | BT","publisher":"globalservices.bt.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"accepted","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":["cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity","managed_operations","global_delivery","uk_delivery"],"named_customer":"Rolls-Royce, DP World Antwerp, Karcher","segment":"Multiple","named_product_or_service":"Managed Azure Network Services (named for Rolls-Royce specifically)","service_family":"Supporting only","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"UK (Rolls-Royce), Belgium (DP World Antwerp), Germany (Karcher)","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Not stated in the reviewed source","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"BT delivers Managed Azure Network Services to help Rolls Royce","reviewer_summary":"Dedicated manufacturing industry page (#9) headed 'Manufacturing solutions' with named case studies for Rolls Royce, DP World Antwerp and Karcher, and an attributed quote from Paul Knight, Lead Enterprise Architect at Rolls-Royce. Note the cited engagement is Managed Azure Network Services rather than SD-WAN or SASE specifically.","limitation_and_notes":"Supplier's dedicated industry page with named customers Rolls Royce, DP World Antwerp and Karcher."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_011","workbook_source_id":"MFG-011","url":"https://www.globalservices.bt.com/btfederal/digital-industries/consumer-goods","title":"Consumer goods | BT","publisher":"globalservices.bt.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"rejected","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":[],"named_customer":"Karcher, Rexel","segment":"Consumer goods","named_product_or_service":"Not stated in the reviewed source","service_family":"Not relevant","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"Not stated in the reviewed source","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Not stated in the reviewed source","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"BT delivers Managed Azure Network Services to help Rolls Royce","reviewer_summary":"Dedicated manufacturing industry page (#9) headed 'Manufacturing solutions' with named case studies for Rolls Royce, DP World Antwerp and Karcher, and an attributed quote from Paul Knight, Lead Enterprise Architect at Rolls-Royce. Note the cited engagement is Managed Azure Network Services rather than SD-WAN or SASE specifically.","limitation_and_notes":"Supplier's dedicated industry page naming Karcher and Rexel."}]},{"slug":"gtt","name":"GTT","marketplace_url":"https://netify.co.uk/marketplace/gtt/","research_status":"complete","overall_confidence":"low","fit_conclusion":"GTT's manufacturing page carries the strongest single explicit claim of the 18 (a direct 'UK and Ireland delivery' statement, now Proven) alongside two credible multi-site data points (Etex 160+ sites, Barry Callebaut 130+ sites), making this one of the better-evidenced providers despite still being mostly Partial.","gaps_and_unknowns":"Etex, Barry Callebaut, Röchling Automotive, HMY Group and Mitsubishi Electric UK are all named on the same page but none has been opened as an individual case study yet - that's the fastest way to convert several more Partial fields to Proven.","reviewed_by":"Harry Yelland","reviewed_date":"2026-09-09","source_count":2,"accepted_source_count":1,"requirements":[{"code":"factory_and_plant_connectivity","label":"Factory and plant connectivity","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"ot_and_it_segmentation","label":"OT and IT segmentation","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"industrial_iot","label":"Industrial IoT","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"edge_computing","label":"Edge computing","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"third_party_and_supplier_access","label":"Third-party and supplier access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"remote_engineer_access","label":"Remote engineer access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"resilience_and_uptime","label":"Resilience and uptime","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"multi_site_production","label":"Multi-site production","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_033"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"global_supply_chain","label":"Global supply chain","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity","label":"Cloud and data-centre connectivity","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"managed_operations","label":"Managed operations","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"network_visibility","label":"Network visibility","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"industrial_security_standards","label":"Industrial security standards","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"uk_delivery","label":"UK delivery","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_033"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"global_delivery","label":"Global delivery","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_033"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"}],"sources":[{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_033","workbook_source_id":"MFG-033","url":"https://www.gtt.net/us-en/solutions/industry-solutions/manufacturing/","title":"GTT Manufacturing industry solutions","publisher":"gtt.net","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"accepted","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":["multi_site_production","global_delivery","uk_delivery"],"named_customer":"HMY Group, Mitsubishi Electric UK, Etex, Barry Callebaut, Röchling Automotive","segment":"Multiple","named_product_or_service":"Not stated (general industry page, no specific product named)","service_family":"Supporting only","estate":"Etex 160+ sites; Barry Callebaut 130+ sites","countries_or_regions":"UK and Ireland (explicit delivery claim); customers are multinational","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Not stated in the reviewed source","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"Röchling Automotive partnered with GTT to modernize its global network and support Industry 4.0 initiatives","reviewer_summary":"Strongest sector evidence. Dedicated industry page naming five manufacturing customers: HMY Group, Mitsubishi Electric UK, Etex (160+ sites), Barry Callebaut (130+ sites) and Röchling Automotive. Page also claims TOP 3 Global 500 manufacturers as customers, though that claim is unnamed and I have not graded on it.","limitation_and_notes":"Tier 1 dedicated industry page with five named manufacturing customers. Strongest single sector page. Also carries the UK and Ireland delivery claim."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_032","workbook_source_id":"MFG-032","url":"https://www.gtt.net/industry-solutions/","title":"GTT Industry Solutions index","publisher":"gtt.net","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"superseded","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":[],"named_customer":"Not applicable (no single named customer on this page)","segment":"Unspecified","named_product_or_service":"Not stated in the reviewed source","service_family":"Not relevant","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"Not stated in the reviewed source","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Not stated in the reviewed source","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"Röchling Automotive partnered with GTT to modernize its global network and support Industry 4.0 initiatives","reviewer_summary":"Strongest sector evidence. Dedicated industry page naming five manufacturing customers: HMY Group, Mitsubishi Electric UK, Etex (160+ sites), Barry Callebaut (130+ sites) and Röchling Automotive. Page also claims TOP 3 Global 500 manufacturers as customers, though that claim is unnamed and I have not graded on it.","limitation_and_notes":"Tier 1 supplier page. Definitive list of the verticals GTT markets to: Finance & Insurance, Manufacturing, Retail & E-Commerce, Wholesale, Public Sector. Absence of a vertical here is meaningful negative evidence."}]},{"slug":"hpe-aruba-edgeconnect","name":"HPE Aruba EdgeConnect","marketplace_url":"https://netify.co.uk/marketplace/hpe-aruba-edgeconnect/","research_status":"complete","overall_confidence":"low","fit_conclusion":"The SCHAEFER KALK case study is the strongest OT-specific evidence found across all 30 providers - a named manufacturer with a direct quote about segmented access for production-data sharing - which is why this is the only provider with OT and IT segmentation Proven.","gaps_and_unknowns":"Beyond SCHAEFER KALK, the EdgeConnect and SSE product pages reference several further customer stories (including a 500+ edge-location claim) that were never individually opened or named. Resilience, third-party access and industrial standards remain unevidenced.","reviewed_by":"Harry Yelland","reviewed_date":"2026-09-09","source_count":4,"accepted_source_count":1,"requirements":[{"code":"factory_and_plant_connectivity","label":"Factory and plant connectivity","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_036"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"ot_and_it_segmentation","label":"OT and IT segmentation","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_036"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"industrial_iot","label":"Industrial IoT","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_036"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"edge_computing","label":"Edge computing","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"third_party_and_supplier_access","label":"Third-party and supplier access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"remote_engineer_access","label":"Remote engineer access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"resilience_and_uptime","label":"Resilience and uptime","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"multi_site_production","label":"Multi-site production","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"global_supply_chain","label":"Global supply chain","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity","label":"Cloud and data-centre connectivity","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"managed_operations","label":"Managed operations","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"network_visibility","label":"Network visibility","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"industrial_security_standards","label":"Industrial security standards","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"uk_delivery","label":"UK delivery","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"global_delivery","label":"Global delivery","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"}],"sources":[{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_036","workbook_source_id":"MFG-036","url":"https://paths.ext.hpe.com/r/a00119879?cc=us&lang=en","title":"Securing and modernizing networks in manufacturing with unified SASE","publisher":"paths.ext.hpe.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"accepted","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":["factory_and_plant_connectivity","ot_and_it_segmentation","industrial_iot"],"named_customer":"SCHAEFER KALK","segment":"Chemicals","named_product_or_service":"HPE Aruba unified SASE / segmented network infrastructure","service_family":"SASE","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"Not confirmed on page (company is German)","ot_or_production_environment":"Segmented OT/IT access described directly in the quote","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Qualitative claim only, no figure given","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"Securing and modernizing networks in manufacturing with unified SASE","reviewer_summary":"Dedicated manufacturing SASE document plus named industrial customers. The SSE page states verbatim: \"The mining industry is becoming increasingly digital. Using digital touchpoints, SCHAEFER KALK is now able to share production data, track efficiency, and accelerate its Industry 4.0 initiatives. This is made possible by a unified network infrastructure with secure, segmented access from HPE Aruba Networking.\" Barrett Steel Limited on the EdgeConnect page is a further industrial reference.","limitation_and_notes":"Tier 1 supplier industry document linked from the SASE page. Title verified in title tag and og:title."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_034","workbook_source_id":"MFG-034","url":"https://www.hpe.com/us/en/aruba-edgeconnect-sd-wan.html","title":"HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect SD-WAN (product page)","publisher":"hpe.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-09-15","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"rejected","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":[],"named_customer":"Not individually named in the note (five unnamed SD-WAN customer stories referenced)","segment":"Multiple","named_product_or_service":"HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect SD-WAN","service_family":"SD-WAN","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"Not stated in the reviewed source","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Not stated in the reviewed source","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"Securing and modernizing networks in manufacturing with unified SASE","reviewer_summary":"Dedicated manufacturing SASE document plus named industrial customers. The SSE page states verbatim: \"The mining industry is becoming increasingly digital. Using digital touchpoints, SCHAEFER KALK is now able to share production data, track efficiency, and accelerate its Industry 4.0 initiatives. This is made possible by a unified network infrastructure with secure, segmented access from HPE Aruba Networking.\" Barrett Steel Limited on the EdgeConnect page is a further industrial reference.","limitation_and_notes":"Tier 1 supplier page. Carries five named SD-WAN customer stories with verbatim blurbs and links to case study PDFs. No pricing, no region list. [2026-09-15] Rejected: generic EdgeConnect product page referencing five unnamed customer stories. No individually named manufacturer, no specific technical claim tied to a capability column - too generic to support any capability honestly."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_035","workbook_source_id":"MFG-035","url":"https://www.hpe.com/us/en/aruba-networking-sse.html","title":"HPE Aruba Networking SSE (product page)","publisher":"hpe.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-09-15","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"rejected","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":[],"named_customer":"Not individually named (four SSE customer stories, incl. a city government and a logistics operator - not manufacturing specific)","segment":"Unspecified","named_product_or_service":"HPE Aruba Networking SSE","service_family":"SSE","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"Not stated in the reviewed source","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"500+ edge locations coverage claim","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"Securing and modernizing networks in manufacturing with unified SASE","reviewer_summary":"Dedicated manufacturing SASE document plus named industrial customers. The SSE page states verbatim: \"The mining industry is becoming increasingly digital. Using digital touchpoints, SCHAEFER KALK is now able to share production data, track efficiency, and accelerate its Industry 4.0 initiatives. This is made possible by a unified network infrastructure with secure, segmented access from HPE Aruba Networking.\" Barrett Steel Limited on the EdgeConnect page is a further industrial reference.","limitation_and_notes":"Tier 1 supplier page. Carries four named SSE customer stories including a city government and a logistics operator, plus the only coverage claim found (500+ edge locations). [2026-09-15] Rejected: generic SSE product page. Referenced customer stories include a city government and a logistics operator - not manufacturing-specific, and none individually named on this page."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_037","workbook_source_id":"MFG-037","url":"https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/a50013909enw","title":"Mining industry finds a slick, digital layer, SCHAEFER KALK","publisher":"hpe.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-09-15","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"rejected","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":[],"named_customer":"SCHAEFER KALK","segment":"Chemicals","named_product_or_service":"HPE Aruba Networking (product not specified on this landing page)","service_family":"Supporting only","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"Germany appears only in meta-keywords - too weak to grade alone, per Harry's note","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Not stated in the reviewed source","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"Securing and modernizing networks in manufacturing with unified SASE","reviewer_summary":"Dedicated manufacturing SASE document plus named industrial customers. The SSE page states verbatim: \"The mining industry is becoming increasingly digital. Using digital touchpoints, SCHAEFER KALK is now able to share production data, track efficiency, and accelerate its Industry 4.0 initiatives. This is made possible by a unified network infrastructure with secure, segmented access from HPE Aruba Networking.\" Barrett Steel Limited on the EdgeConnect page is a further industrial reference.","limitation_and_notes":"Tier 1 supplier case study landing page. Title and meta description readable. Germany appears only in the meta-keywords field, which is too weak to carry a region grade alone. [SD-WAN/SASE/SSE field: Same SCHAEFER KALK story as the Accepted MFG-036 (which is graded SASE), but this landing page doesn't itself confirm the product line, so it's supporting context rather than a standalone product claim.] [2026-09-15] Rejected after a live search attempt: the recorded quote is just the generic 'Securing and modernizing networks in manufacturing with unified SASE' tagline, not SCHAEFER KALK-specific content. A fresh search for a genuine SCHAEFER KALK + HPE Aruba SD-WAN/SASE case study found only generic HPE Aruba product pages and unrelated SCHAEFER KALK mining-industry news - no real case study located despite the named title."}]},{"slug":"juniper","name":"Juniper Networks","marketplace_url":"https://netify.co.uk/marketplace/juniper/","research_status":"complete","overall_confidence":"low","fit_conclusion":"FloraCraft is a genuine, named, plant-floor case study - but it's a Wi-Fi/wireless deployment (Mist AI, AP43 access points), not SD-WAN or SASE, so per evidence rule 4 it can't be counted as SD-WAN/SASE proof even though it's strong evidence for the underlying connectivity capability.","gaps_and_unknowns":"ZF Group is a further named lead (campus-to-cloud network) on Juniper's own manufacturing page, not yet independently opened. No Juniper SD-WAN/SASE-specific manufacturing deployment has been found - this remains the central gap.","reviewed_by":"Harry Yelland","reviewed_date":"2026-09-10","source_count":4,"accepted_source_count":1,"requirements":[{"code":"factory_and_plant_connectivity","label":"Factory and plant connectivity","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_071"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"ot_and_it_segmentation","label":"OT and IT segmentation","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"industrial_iot","label":"Industrial IoT","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_071"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"edge_computing","label":"Edge computing","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"third_party_and_supplier_access","label":"Third-party and supplier access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"remote_engineer_access","label":"Remote engineer access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"resilience_and_uptime","label":"Resilience and uptime","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"multi_site_production","label":"Multi-site production","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"global_supply_chain","label":"Global supply chain","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity","label":"Cloud and data-centre connectivity","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"managed_operations","label":"Managed operations","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"network_visibility","label":"Network visibility","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"industrial_security_standards","label":"Industrial security standards","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"uk_delivery","label":"UK delivery","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"global_delivery","label":"Global delivery","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"}],"sources":[{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_071","workbook_source_id":"MFG-071","url":"https://www.juniper.net/us/en/customers/floracraft-case-study.html","title":"Great Wi-Fi blooms at FloraCraft with Juniper Mist","publisher":"juniper.net","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-09-10","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"accepted","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Named customer case study","requirement_codes":["factory_and_plant_connectivity","industrial_iot"],"named_customer":"FloraCraft","segment":"Consumer goods","named_product_or_service":"Juniper wireless (Mist AI), AP43 access points","service_family":"Not relevant","estate":"200+ employees, single HQ site","countries_or_regions":"USA (Ludington, Michigan)","ot_or_production_environment":"Cameras and sensors guiding robots on a new automated manufacturing line run over this Wi-Fi network","measured_or_stated_outcome":"User complaints about Wi-Fi stopped; automated troubleshooting saved substantial time","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"\"Team members on the plant floor can plan production and manage inventory from wireless kiosks... cameras and sensors guiding the robots.\"","reviewer_summary":"Juniper's own case study, live and verified 2026-09-10. FloraCraft is a real, named foam-products manufacturer. This is Wi-Fi/wireless (AP43), not SD-WAN/SASE - per evidence rule 4 it cannot be used as SD-WAN/SASE evidence, but it is genuine, specific, named evidence for plant-floor connectivity and IoT-adjacent (camera/sensor-guided robot) capabilities.","limitation_and_notes":"Wireless/Wi-Fi evidence, not SD-WAN/SASE - graded Not relevant on that field per evidence rule 4."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_040","workbook_source_id":"MFG-040","url":"https://www.juniper.net/us/en/solutions/industries/manufacturing.html","title":"Manufacturing Networking Solutions | Juniper Networks","publisher":"juniper.net","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-09-15","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"rejected","reviewer_confidence":"medium","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":[],"named_customer":"Not named (no customers on page, per note)","segment":"Unspecified","named_product_or_service":"Not stated in the reviewed source","service_family":"Supporting only","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"Not stated in the reviewed source","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Not stated in the reviewed source","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"Juniper's Mist AI-native networking platform empowers manufacturers to maximize production and supply chain velocity, streamline network operations, and protect employees, data, and devices through reliable, secure connectivity","reviewer_summary":"Graded yes on the dedicated industry page test. Manufacturing is in the published industry list [3]. The manufacturing page itself carries no named customer. Separately, the SD-WAN page [1] names Seagate Technology, a mass-data storage hardware manufacturer, as an SD-WAN customer, which is arguably a named manufacturing reference, but Juniper does not present Seagate as a manufacturing case study so this is not relied on for the grade.","limitation_and_notes":"Supplier's own dedicated manufacturing industry page. Sector-specific framing, no named customers. Undated. [SD-WAN/SASE/SSE field: Juniper's dedicated manufacturing page frames the sector generally without naming a specific product tier (SD-WAN vs SASE vs SSE), so it supports the sector case without proving a specific product.] [2026-09-15] Rejected: generic Juniper Mist manufacturing solutions page, no named customer at all, confirmed per the note. Marketing tagline only."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_038","workbook_source_id":"MFG-038","url":"https://www.juniper.net/us/en/solutions/sd-wan.html","title":"AI-Native SD-WAN Solutions | Juniper Networks","publisher":"juniper.net","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"superseded","reviewer_confidence":"medium","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":[],"named_customer":"Seagate Technology","segment":"Electronics","named_product_or_service":"Juniper AI-Native SD-WAN (Mist)","service_family":"SD-WAN","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"Not stated in the reviewed source","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Not stated in the reviewed source","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"Juniper's Mist AI-native networking platform empowers manufacturers to maximize production and supply chain velocity, streamline network operations, and protect employees, data, and devices through reliable, secure connectivity","reviewer_summary":"Graded yes on the dedicated industry page test. Manufacturing is in the published industry list [3]. The manufacturing page itself carries no named customer. Separately, the SD-WAN page [1] names Seagate Technology, a mass-data storage hardware manufacturer, as an SD-WAN customer, which is arguably a named manufacturing reference, but Juniper does not present Seagate as a manufacturing case study so this is not relied on for the grade.","limitation_and_notes":"Supplier's own SD-WAN solution page. Carries the only named SD-WAN customer found (Seagate) and the industry navigation list. Undated."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_039","workbook_source_id":"MFG-039","url":"https://www.juniper.net/us/en/solutions.html","title":"Solutions & Technologies | Juniper Networks","publisher":"juniper.net","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"superseded","reviewer_confidence":"medium","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":[],"named_customer":"Not applicable (no single named customer on this page)","segment":"Unspecified","named_product_or_service":"Not stated in the reviewed source","service_family":"Not relevant","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"Not stated in the reviewed source","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Not stated in the reviewed source","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"Juniper's Mist AI-native networking platform empowers manufacturers to maximize production and supply chain velocity, streamline network operations, and protect employees, data, and devices through reliable, secure connectivity","reviewer_summary":"Graded yes on the dedicated industry page test. Manufacturing is in the published industry list [3]. The manufacturing page itself carries no named customer. Separately, the SD-WAN page [1] names Seagate Technology, a mass-data storage hardware manufacturer, as an SD-WAN customer, which is arguably a named manufacturing reference, but Juniper does not present Seagate as a manufacturing case study so this is not relied on for the grade.","limitation_and_notes":"Supplier's own solutions index. Source for the definitive list of industries Juniper publishes dedicated pages for, and for the industry page URLs. Undated."}]},{"slug":"vodafone","name":"Vodafone Business","marketplace_url":"https://netify.co.uk/marketplace/vodafone/","research_status":"complete","overall_confidence":"low","fit_conclusion":"The Ford case study is explicitly a 5G mobile private network deployment, not SD-WAN/SASE, so per the workbook's own evidence rule it can only support Industrial IoT, not the SD-WAN/SASE capabilities the page is really meant to test.","gaps_and_unknowns":"The strongest SD-WAN evidence (an anonymised '84 plants in 36 countries' deployment) sits in a product document with no named customer. Irish Manufacturing Research is named alongside Ford but with no separate engagement detail. A genuinely named SD-WAN/SASE deployment is still missing.","reviewed_by":"Harry Yelland","reviewed_date":"2026-09-09","source_count":4,"accepted_source_count":1,"requirements":[{"code":"factory_and_plant_connectivity","label":"Factory and plant connectivity","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"ot_and_it_segmentation","label":"OT and IT segmentation","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"industrial_iot","label":"Industrial IoT","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_064"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"edge_computing","label":"Edge computing","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"third_party_and_supplier_access","label":"Third-party and supplier access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"remote_engineer_access","label":"Remote engineer access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"resilience_and_uptime","label":"Resilience and uptime","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"multi_site_production","label":"Multi-site production","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_063"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"global_supply_chain","label":"Global supply chain","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity","label":"Cloud and data-centre connectivity","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"managed_operations","label":"Managed operations","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"network_visibility","label":"Network visibility","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"industrial_security_standards","label":"Industrial security standards","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"uk_delivery","label":"UK delivery","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_065"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"global_delivery","label":"Global delivery","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_063"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"}],"sources":[{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_064","workbook_source_id":"MFG-064","url":"https://www.vodafone.com/business/solutions/by-industry/manufacturing-transport-and-logistics","title":"Vodafone Business in Manufacturing, Transport and Logistics","publisher":"vodafone.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"accepted","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":["industrial_iot"],"named_customer":"Ford, Irish Manufacturing Research","segment":"Automotive","named_product_or_service":"Vodafone Business SD-WAN named on page; the Ford engagement itself is 5G Mobile Private Network, not SD-WAN","service_family":"Supporting only","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"Not stated in the reviewed source","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Not stated in the reviewed source","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"Vodafone 5G Mobile Private Network (MPN) is supporting Ford in the digital transformation of its technical centre to speed up electric vehicle manufacturing.","reviewer_summary":"Dedicated industry page (Manufacturing, Transport and Logistics) on vodafone.com that names Vodafone Business SD-WAN directly, plus a separate manufacturing page in the Vodafone UK industry expertise list, plus a Construction & Manufacturing sector requirements section in the SD-WAN document. Caveat: the named manufacturing customers (Ford, Irish Manufacturing Research) are 5G mobile private network deployments, not SD-WAN or SASE. The SD-WAN document does cite an anonymised \"84 plants in 36 countries\" engagement.","limitation_and_notes":"Tier 1 dedicated supplier industry page covering three of the ten sectors at once, naming SD-WAN and a named manufacturing customer (Ford)."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_062","workbook_source_id":"MFG-062","url":"https://www.vodafone.co.uk/business/sdn/sd-wan","title":"SD-WAN for Business | Vodafone UK","publisher":"vodafone.co.uk","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"superseded","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":[],"named_customer":"Not applicable (no single named customer on this page)","segment":"Unspecified","named_product_or_service":"Vodafone Business SD-WAN","service_family":"SD-WAN","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"192 countries (general company claim, not manufacturing-specific)","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Not stated in the reviewed source","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"Vodafone 5G Mobile Private Network (MPN) is supporting Ford in the digital transformation of its technical centre to speed up electric vehicle manufacturing.","reviewer_summary":"Dedicated industry page (Manufacturing, Transport and Logistics) on vodafone.com that names Vodafone Business SD-WAN directly, plus a separate manufacturing page in the Vodafone UK industry expertise list, plus a Construction & Manufacturing sector requirements section in the SD-WAN document. Caveat: the named manufacturing customers (Ford, Irish Manufacturing Research) are 5G mobile private network deployments, not SD-WAN or SASE. The SD-WAN document does cite an anonymised \"84 plants in 36 countries\" engagement.","limitation_and_notes":"Tier 1 supplier product page. Carries the vendor's own SD-WAN partner line-up (Fortinet, Arista, Cisco), sector suitability lists, business-size tiers and the 192 country claim. No date published on the page."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_063","workbook_source_id":"MFG-063","url":"https://d3bql97l1ytoxn.cloudfront.net/app_resources/401786/documentation/1435542_1720420681871_en-US.pdf","title":"Vodafone Business SD-WAN (product document, PDF)","publisher":"d3bql97l1ytoxn.cloudfront.net","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"superseded","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":["multi_site_production","global_delivery"],"named_customer":"Not named specifically","segment":"Unspecified","named_product_or_service":"Vodafone Business SD-WAN","service_family":"SD-WAN","estate":"84 plants (anonymised example)","countries_or_regions":"36 countries; 192 countries (general company claim)","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Not stated in the reviewed source","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"Vodafone 5G Mobile Private Network (MPN) is supporting Ford in the digital transformation of its technical centre to speed up electric vehicle manufacturing.","reviewer_summary":"Dedicated industry page (Manufacturing, Transport and Logistics) on vodafone.com that names Vodafone Business SD-WAN directly, plus a separate manufacturing page in the Vodafone UK industry expertise list, plus a Construction & Manufacturing sector requirements section in the SD-WAN document. Caveat: the named manufacturing customers (Ford, Irish Manufacturing Research) are 5G mobile private network deployments, not SD-WAN or SASE. The SD-WAN document does cite an anonymised \"84 plants in 36 countries\" engagement.","limitation_and_notes":"Tier 1 Vodafone-authored SD-WAN document, but hosted on a third-party CDN (cloudfront) rather than a vodafone.com URL, so permanence is not guaranteed. Contains sector requirement sections, deal-size examples and the 192 country statement."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_065","workbook_source_id":"MFG-065","url":"https://www.vodafone.co.uk/business/our-industry-expertise","title":"Industry Expertise index | Vodafone UK","publisher":"vodafone.co.uk","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"superseded","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":["uk_delivery"],"named_customer":"Not applicable (no single named customer on this page)","segment":"Unspecified","named_product_or_service":"Not stated in the reviewed source","service_family":"Not relevant","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"UK","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Not stated in the reviewed source","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"Vodafone 5G Mobile Private Network (MPN) is supporting Ford in the digital transformation of its technical centre to speed up electric vehicle manufacturing.","reviewer_summary":"Dedicated industry page (Manufacturing, Transport and Logistics) on vodafone.com that names Vodafone Business SD-WAN directly, plus a separate manufacturing page in the Vodafone UK industry expertise list, plus a Construction & Manufacturing sector requirements section in the SD-WAN document. Caveat: the named manufacturing customers (Ford, Irish Manufacturing Research) are 5G mobile private network deployments, not SD-WAN or SASE. The SD-WAN document does cite an anonymised \"84 plants in 36 countries\" engagement.","limitation_and_notes":"Tier 1 supplier index confirming exactly which industries have dedicated UK pages (water, energy, retail, finance, manufacturing, professional services, central government, local government, construction). Useful as negative evidence for sectors absent from the list."}]},{"slug":"cloudflare-one","name":"Cloudflare One","marketplace_url":"https://netify.co.uk/marketplace/cloudflare-one/","research_status":"complete","overall_confidence":"low","fit_conclusion":"Mitsubishi Gas Chemical's case study is quantified and named, giving Cloudflare One genuine Proven evidence for remote-access capability, though only in that one dimension.","gaps_and_unknowns":"Anadolu Efes (MFG-019) remains a further named lead not yet independently verified. Segmentation, IoT, edge computing, resilience and multi-site fields have no evidence yet.","reviewed_by":"Harry Yelland","reviewed_date":"2026-09-10","source_count":3,"accepted_source_count":3,"requirements":[{"code":"factory_and_plant_connectivity","label":"Factory and plant connectivity","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"ot_and_it_segmentation","label":"OT and IT segmentation","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"industrial_iot","label":"Industrial IoT","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"edge_computing","label":"Edge computing","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"third_party_and_supplier_access","label":"Third-party and supplier access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_069"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"remote_engineer_access","label":"Remote engineer access","state":"proven","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_018","src_manufacturing_mfg_069"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"resilience_and_uptime","label":"Resilience and uptime","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_019"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"multi_site_production","label":"Multi-site production","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_019"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"global_supply_chain","label":"Global supply chain","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity","label":"Cloud and data-centre connectivity","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_069"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"managed_operations","label":"Managed operations","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"network_visibility","label":"Network visibility","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_019"],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"industrial_security_standards","label":"Industrial security standards","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"uk_delivery","label":"UK delivery","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"global_delivery","label":"Global delivery","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"}],"sources":[{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_018","workbook_source_id":"MFG-018","url":"https://www.cloudflare.com/case-studies/mitsubishi-gas-chemical/","title":"Cloudflare case study: Mitsubishi Gas Chemical","publisher":"cloudflare.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-09-15","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"accepted","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":["remote_engineer_access"],"named_customer":"Mitsubishi Gas Chemical","segment":"Chemicals","named_product_or_service":"Cloudflare Zero Trust","service_family":"SSE","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"Asia-Pacific","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"75% reduction in remote connection expenses; 40 hours/month saved on troubleshooting","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"\"The lower cost and the ability to access from anywhere globally via Cloudflare's infrastructure led us to make a decision to migrate to Cloudflare.\" Result: reduced department remote connection expenses by 75%; cut 40 hours/month previously spent troubleshooting network routing.","reviewer_summary":"Two named manufacturing case studies, both with SASE relevant deployments. Mitsubishi Gas Chemical is tagged Asia-Pacific and lists Zero Trust, CDN, DNS and Gateway. Anadolu Efes, a brewer headquartered in Istanbul, is documented using Cloudflare One, ZTNA, Magic WAN and Secure Web Gateway, which is the strongest full SASE plus SD-WAN sector reference found in this task. Knauf, a building materials manufacturer, also appears as a logo on the Magic WAN page. There is no dedicated manufacturing industry page.","limitation_and_notes":"Tier 1 supplier case study. Named manufacturing customer deploying Zero Trust, with an Asia Pacific region tag. Directly relevant to the SASE grading. [2026-09-15] Capability and quote completed. This is general remote-workforce access (Zero Trust for all employees), not engineer/OT-specific access - graded Partial for Remote engineer access on that basis."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_019","workbook_source_id":"MFG-019","url":"https://www.cloudflare.com/case-studies/anadolu-efes/","title":"Cloudflare case study: Anadolu Efes","publisher":"cloudflare.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-09-15","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"accepted","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":["resilience_and_uptime","multi_site_production","network_visibility"],"named_customer":"Anadolu Efes","segment":"Food and beverage","named_product_or_service":"Cloudflare One, ZTNA, Magic WAN, Secure Web Gateway","service_family":"SASE","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"Not stated in the reviewed source","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Latency cut from 250ms to 30-40ms; ~1 million malicious requests blocked monthly; new site deployment cut from weeks to hours","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"\"Anadolu Efes cuts latency from 250 ms to 30-40 ms with Cloudflare.\" Cloudflare implemented WAF, DDoS Protection, and the Cloudflare One SASE platform, replacing traditional VPNs and MPLS. Result: blocked ~1 million malicious requests monthly; cut new site deployment times from weeks to hours.","reviewer_summary":"Two named manufacturing case studies, both with SASE relevant deployments. Mitsubishi Gas Chemical is tagged Asia-Pacific and lists Zero Trust, CDN, DNS and Gateway. Anadolu Efes, a brewer headquartered in Istanbul, is documented using Cloudflare One, ZTNA, Magic WAN and Secure Web Gateway, which is the strongest full SASE plus SD-WAN sector reference found in this task. Knauf, a building materials manufacturer, also appears as a logo on the Magic WAN page. There is no dedicated manufacturing industry page.","limitation_and_notes":"Tier 1 supplier case study. Named manufacturer (brewing) explicitly deploying Cloudflare One, ZTNA, Magic WAN and Secure Web Gateway. The single best SASE plus SD-WAN sector case study found. [2026-09-15] CORRECTED: this row previously had a copy-paste error, carrying the Mitsubishi Gas Chemical (MFG-018) quote instead of its own. Replaced with the real Anadolu Efes wording and outcome. The 'weeks to hours' new-site deployment figure is genuinely strong multi-site evidence."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_069","workbook_source_id":"MFG-069","url":"https://www.cloudflare.com/case-studies/mitsubishi-gas-chemical","title":"Mitsubishi Gas Chemical reduces remote connection expenses by 75% with Cloudflare","publisher":"cloudflare.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-09-10","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"accepted","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Named customer case study","requirement_codes":["cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity","third_party_and_supplier_access","remote_engineer_access"],"named_customer":"Mitsubishi Gas Chemical (MGC)","segment":"Chemicals","named_product_or_service":"Cloudflare Zero Trust","service_family":"SSE","estate":"Not stated","countries_or_regions":"Asia-Pacific (Japan-headquartered, global workforce)","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated","measured_or_stated_outcome":"75% reduction in department remote-connection expenses, 40 hours per month saved on troubleshooting","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"\"reduced department remote connection expenses by 75%, and cut 40 hours per month previously spent troubleshooting network routing\"","reviewer_summary":"Cloudflare's own case study, live and verified 2026-09-10. MGC is described on-page as 'a unique technology-oriented manufacturer'. Quantified, named, real deployment of Cloudflare Zero Trust for global remote/device access - stronger and more specific than the existing MFG-018 lead for the same customer.","limitation_and_notes":"Supersedes/strengthens MFG-018 for the same customer - MFG-018 can be left as a secondary reference."}]},{"slug":"fortinet-fortisase","name":"Fortinet FortiSASE","marketplace_url":"https://netify.co.uk/marketplace/fortinet-fortisase/","research_status":"complete","overall_confidence":"low","fit_conclusion":"A Steelcase quote about protection 'across physical and cloud-based domains' and an SD-WAN ebook citing an unnamed auto-parts company (~11,000 locations, 17 countries) and bakery manufacturer (1,000 locations, 32 countries) together support Multi-site production and Global delivery, but both are vendor-published and the ebook customers are anonymised.","gaps_and_unknowns":"GEMU, Kalsec, Barnes Group and Toyota Material Handling are named on the accepted page but not individually opened. Anonymised ebook examples can't be independently corroborated - finding the named case study behind either example would strengthen this considerably.","reviewed_by":"Harry Yelland","reviewed_date":"2026-09-09","source_count":2,"accepted_source_count":1,"requirements":[{"code":"factory_and_plant_connectivity","label":"Factory and plant connectivity","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"ot_and_it_segmentation","label":"OT and IT segmentation","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"industrial_iot","label":"Industrial IoT","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"edge_computing","label":"Edge computing","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"third_party_and_supplier_access","label":"Third-party and supplier access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"remote_engineer_access","label":"Remote engineer access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"resilience_and_uptime","label":"Resilience and uptime","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"multi_site_production","label":"Multi-site production","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_030"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"global_supply_chain","label":"Global supply chain","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity","label":"Cloud and data-centre connectivity","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_030"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"managed_operations","label":"Managed operations","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"network_visibility","label":"Network visibility","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"industrial_security_standards","label":"Industrial security standards","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"uk_delivery","label":"UK delivery","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"global_delivery","label":"Global delivery","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_030"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"}],"sources":[{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_030","workbook_source_id":"MFG-030","url":"https://www.fortinet.com/solutions/industries/manufacturing","title":"Manufacturing Cybersecurity | Fortinet","publisher":"fortinet.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"accepted","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":["cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity","multi_site_production","global_delivery"],"named_customer":"Steelcase, GEMU, Kalsec, Barnes Group, Toyota Material Handling","segment":"Multiple","named_product_or_service":"FortiSASE (page context)","service_family":"SASE","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"Not stated in the reviewed source","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Not stated in the reviewed source","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"Our extended IT infrastructure is absolutely critical to everything we do, so it's invaluable to have the seamless protection that Fortinet provides across our physical and cloud-based domains.","reviewer_summary":"Quote attributed to Steelcase on the dedicated manufacturing page. GEMU, Kalsec, Barnes Group and Toyota Material Handling are also named on that page. The SD-WAN ebook [9] carries a global auto parts company (~11,000 locations, 17 countries) and a bakery manufacturer (1,000 locations, 32 countries) as SD-WAN deployments. Note the Steelcase quote evidences platform security rather than SD-WAN specifically; the SD-WAN link comes from [9].","limitation_and_notes":"Supplier's dedicated manufacturing industry page with named manufacturer case studies. Vendor-authored."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_031","workbook_source_id":"MFG-031","url":"https://www.fortinet.com/content/dam/fortinet/assets/ebook/eb-sd-wan-customer-stories.pdf","title":"Secure SD-WAN Customer Success Stories (ebook PDF)","publisher":"fortinet.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"rejected","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":[],"named_customer":"Not named (anonymised: global auto parts company, bakery manufacturer)","segment":"Automotive; Food and beverage (two anonymised examples)","named_product_or_service":"Fortinet Secure SD-WAN","service_family":"SD-WAN","estate":"~11,000 locations (auto parts co.); ~1,000 locations (bakery mfr.)","countries_or_regions":"17 countries (auto parts co.); 32 countries (bakery mfr.)","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Not stated in the reviewed source","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"Our extended IT infrastructure is absolutely critical to everything we do, so it's invaluable to have the seamless protection that Fortinet provides across our physical and cloud-based domains.","reviewer_summary":"Quote attributed to Steelcase on the dedicated manufacturing page. GEMU, Kalsec, Barnes Group and Toyota Material Handling are also named on that page. The SD-WAN ebook [9] carries a global auto parts company (~11,000 locations, 17 countries) and a bakery manufacturer (1,000 locations, 32 countries) as SD-WAN deployments. Note the Steelcase quote evidences platform security rather than SD-WAN specifically; the SD-WAN link comes from [9].","limitation_and_notes":"Supplier's own SD-WAN case study ebook. Strongest SD-WAN-specific sector and scale evidence, though most customers are anonymised by descriptor rather than named."}]},{"slug":"comcastbusiness","name":"Comcast Business","marketplace_url":"https://netify.co.uk/marketplace/comcastbusiness/","research_status":"complete","overall_confidence":"low","fit_conclusion":"Comcast's manufacturing page is generic marketing copy backed by one anonymised case study (a Houston-based manufacturer) - there's no named customer anywhere in the material reviewed, which caps how much can be said about actual fit.","gaps_and_unknowns":"No named manufacturing customer has been found for Comcast at all. Every capability beyond basic sector framing needs a genuinely new, named source before it can move past Not found.","reviewed_by":"Harry Yelland","reviewed_date":"2026-09-09","source_count":2,"accepted_source_count":1,"requirements":[{"code":"factory_and_plant_connectivity","label":"Factory and plant connectivity","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_022"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"ot_and_it_segmentation","label":"OT and IT segmentation","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"industrial_iot","label":"Industrial IoT","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"edge_computing","label":"Edge computing","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"third_party_and_supplier_access","label":"Third-party and supplier access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"remote_engineer_access","label":"Remote engineer access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"resilience_and_uptime","label":"Resilience and uptime","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_022"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"multi_site_production","label":"Multi-site production","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"global_supply_chain","label":"Global supply chain","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity","label":"Cloud and data-centre connectivity","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"managed_operations","label":"Managed operations","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"network_visibility","label":"Network visibility","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"industrial_security_standards","label":"Industrial security standards","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"uk_delivery","label":"UK delivery","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"global_delivery","label":"Global delivery","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"}],"sources":[{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_022","workbook_source_id":"MFG-022","url":"https://business.comcast.com/enterprise/industry-solutions/manufacturing","title":"Manufacturing Industry Technology Solutions | Comcast Business","publisher":"business.comcast.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"accepted","reviewer_confidence":"medium","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":["factory_and_plant_connectivity","resilience_and_uptime"],"named_customer":"Not named (anonymised: 'Houston-based manufacturer')","segment":"Unspecified","named_product_or_service":"Not named in source","service_family":"Supporting only","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"USA (Houston)","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Not stated in the reviewed source","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"Manufacturers of any finished good need a fast and reliable network to ensure that their facilities can maintain daily production flows.","reviewer_summary":"Dedicated manufacturing industry page, which meets the test. The supporting case study is anonymised as a Houston-based manufacturer rather than a named customer, so this is weaker evidence than the retail or financial services grades.","limitation_and_notes":"Supplier's dedicated manufacturing page with an anonymised but published case study (Houston-based manufacturer)."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_021","workbook_source_id":"MFG-021","url":"https://business.comcast.com/enterprise/industry-solutions","title":"Industry Solutions for the Enterprise | Comcast Business","publisher":"business.comcast.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-09-15","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"rejected","reviewer_confidence":"medium","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":[],"named_customer":"Not applicable (no single named customer on this page)","segment":"Unspecified","named_product_or_service":"Not stated in the reviewed source","service_family":"Not relevant","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"Not stated in the reviewed source","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Not stated in the reviewed source","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"Manufacturers of any finished good need a fast and reliable network to ensure that their facilities can maintain daily production flows.","reviewer_summary":"Dedicated manufacturing industry page, which meets the test. The supporting case study is anonymised as a Houston-based manufacturer rather than a named customer, so this is weaker evidence than the retail or financial services grades.","limitation_and_notes":"Supplier's own industry hub. Fetched twice; both times returned the same eleven named industries, which is the basis for grading the three absent sectors as unknown. [SD-WAN/SASE/SSE field: Comcast's own industry-solutions hub - names sectors, not products; carries no SD-WAN/SASE/SSE content itself.] [2026-09-15] Rejected in final pass: generic industry-solutions hub page naming sectors, not a specific product or named manufacturer. No capability can be honestly assigned - missed in the earlier 8-row fix pass, caught in final QA."}]},{"slug":"ericsson-cradlepoint","name":"Ericsson Cradlepoint","marketplace_url":"https://netify.co.uk/marketplace/ericsson-cradlepoint/","research_status":"complete","overall_confidence":"low","fit_conclusion":"The only accepted source is a UK industries landing page that names manufacturing as one of four sectors but doesn't name a single manufacturing customer - this is the thinnest of the 18 completed providers.","gaps_and_unknowns":"No named manufacturing deployment has been found for Ericsson Cradlepoint anywhere. Private-cellular case studies exist for other sectors (Port of Tyne, Taylor Construction) but were rejected as not manufacturing-relevant. A genuinely new source is needed for every field.","reviewed_by":"Harry Yelland","reviewed_date":"2026-09-09","source_count":3,"accepted_source_count":1,"requirements":[{"code":"factory_and_plant_connectivity","label":"Factory and plant connectivity","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"ot_and_it_segmentation","label":"OT and IT segmentation","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"industrial_iot","label":"Industrial IoT","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_023"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"edge_computing","label":"Edge computing","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"third_party_and_supplier_access","label":"Third-party and supplier access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"remote_engineer_access","label":"Remote engineer access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"resilience_and_uptime","label":"Resilience and uptime","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"multi_site_production","label":"Multi-site production","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"global_supply_chain","label":"Global supply chain","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity","label":"Cloud and data-centre connectivity","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"managed_operations","label":"Managed operations","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"network_visibility","label":"Network visibility","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"industrial_security_standards","label":"Industrial security standards","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"uk_delivery","label":"UK delivery","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_023"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"global_delivery","label":"Global delivery","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"}],"sources":[{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_023","workbook_source_id":"MFG-023","url":"https://cradlepoint.com/gb/industries/","title":"Industries (UK site) - Ericsson Enterprise Wireless Solutions","publisher":"cradlepoint.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"accepted","reviewer_confidence":"medium","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":["industrial_iot","uk_delivery"],"named_customer":"Not applicable (no single named customer on this page)","segment":"Multiple","named_product_or_service":"Not stated in the reviewed source","service_family":"Not relevant","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"UK","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Not stated in the reviewed source","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"Private networks built for the rigours of manufacturing","reviewer_summary":"Manufacturing is one of four industries given a headed section with descriptive copy on the UK industries page, but no manufacturing customer, plant deployment or case study was found on any page read. The nearest named private cellular customers are Port of Tyne (a port) and, on the construction page, Taylor Construction and Bilfinger Global IT. Graded partial because the sector is named with detail but nothing is shown behind it.","limitation_and_notes":"Supplier's own UK industries landing page. Names exactly four industries (retail, public safety, manufacturing, construction) with descriptive copy but no named customers on the page itself."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_024","workbook_source_id":"MFG-024","url":"https://cradlepoint.com/products/private-5g/","title":"Private 5G - Ericsson Enterprise Wireless Solutions","publisher":"cradlepoint.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"rejected","reviewer_confidence":"medium","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":[],"named_customer":"Port of Tyne","segment":"Unspecified (port operator, not manufacturing)","named_product_or_service":"Private 5G","service_family":"Not relevant","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"UK","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Not stated in the reviewed source","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"Private networks built for the rigours of manufacturing","reviewer_summary":"Manufacturing is one of four industries given a headed section with descriptive copy on the UK industries page, but no manufacturing customer, plant deployment or case study was found on any page read. The nearest named private cellular customers are Port of Tyne (a port) and, on the construction page, Taylor Construction and Bilfinger Global IT. Graded partial because the sector is named with detail but nothing is shown behind it.","limitation_and_notes":"Supplier product page naming Port of Tyne (UK) as a private 5G customer."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_025","workbook_source_id":"MFG-025","url":"https://cradlepoint.com/industries/cellular-networking-for-construction/","title":"5G for construction efficiency and safety? Built for this.","publisher":"cradlepoint.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"rejected","reviewer_confidence":"medium","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":[],"named_customer":"Taylor Construction, Bilfinger Global IT","segment":"Unspecified (construction, not manufacturing)","named_product_or_service":"Cellular networking for construction","service_family":"Not relevant","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"Not stated in the reviewed source","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Not stated in the reviewed source","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"Private networks built for the rigours of manufacturing","reviewer_summary":"Manufacturing is one of four industries given a headed section with descriptive copy on the UK industries page, but no manufacturing customer, plant deployment or case study was found on any page read. The nearest named private cellular customers are Port of Tyne (a port) and, on the construction page, Taylor Construction and Bilfinger Global IT. Graded partial because the sector is named with detail but nothing is shown behind it.","limitation_and_notes":"Dedicated supplier industry page for construction naming Taylor Construction and Bilfinger Global IT. Construction is outside the ten graded sectors but the Bilfinger reference evidences large multinational customers."}]},{"slug":"forcepoint","name":"Forcepoint","marketplace_url":"https://netify.co.uk/marketplace/forcepoint/","research_status":"complete","overall_confidence":"low","fit_conclusion":"Three named customers (ACME Brick, GG Group, Caesarstone) sit on a data-security-themed page, and a separate SD-WAN product page names HUBER+SUHNER's 20+-country, 45+-node deployment - together these support a Global delivery / Multi-site production picture, but none of the individual case studies has been opened to confirm detail.","gaps_and_unknowns":"The HUBER+SUHNER SD-WAN evidence is the strongest lead here and sits on a product page, not a case study - opening the underlying HUBER+SUHNER story directly would be the fastest way to firm this up. Segmentation, IoT, edge and resilience remain unevidenced.","reviewed_by":"Harry Yelland","reviewed_date":"2026-09-09","source_count":3,"accepted_source_count":1,"requirements":[{"code":"factory_and_plant_connectivity","label":"Factory and plant connectivity","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"ot_and_it_segmentation","label":"OT and IT segmentation","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"industrial_iot","label":"Industrial IoT","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"edge_computing","label":"Edge computing","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"third_party_and_supplier_access","label":"Third-party and supplier access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"remote_engineer_access","label":"Remote engineer access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"resilience_and_uptime","label":"Resilience and uptime","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"multi_site_production","label":"Multi-site production","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_027"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"global_supply_chain","label":"Global supply chain","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_029"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity","label":"Cloud and data-centre connectivity","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"managed_operations","label":"Managed operations","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"network_visibility","label":"Network visibility","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_029"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"industrial_security_standards","label":"Industrial security standards","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"uk_delivery","label":"UK delivery","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"global_delivery","label":"Global delivery","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_027"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"}],"sources":[{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_029","workbook_source_id":"MFG-029","url":"https://www.forcepoint.com/solutions/industry/manufacturing","title":"Forcepoint Data Security for Manufacturers industry page","publisher":"forcepoint.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-09-15","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"accepted","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":["global_supply_chain","network_visibility"],"named_customer":"Caesarstone; Acme Brick","segment":"Heavy industry","named_product_or_service":"Not stated (page is about data security generally)","service_family":"Supporting only","estate":"Caesarstone: 3 facilities, 2 continents; Acme Brick: 14 manufacturing plants, 91 US locations","countries_or_regions":"Not stated in the reviewed source","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Not stated in the reviewed source","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"Caesarstone: \"The company manufactures at three facilities in two continents, and sells in 50 countries all over the world... increased visibility into web traffic, data movement and cloud activity.\" Acme Brick: \"14 manufacturing plants that press out more than 1 billion bricks a year and 91 locations across the U.S... Governance and reporting for regulatory compliance such as PCI DSS... Access to reporting that can meet internal and external audit requirements.\"","reviewer_summary":"Dedicated manufacturing industry page with three named customers quoted (ACME Brick, GG Group and Caesarstone). The customer index separately tags HUBER+SUHNER as Manufacturing, and HUBER+SUHNER is the one manufacturing reference that is also an SD-WAN deployment, cited on the Secure SD-WAN page with a '20+ Countries' and '45+ Cluster Nodes' scale figure. Graded on the H1 because that page was read once.","limitation_and_notes":"Tier 1 supplier material. Dedicated manufacturing page with three named manufacturing customers. Single read, so only the H1 heading is used as the graded quote. [2026-09-15] Original quote was just the page title. Replaced with real content from both named manufacturers found on the page. Product is Forcepoint Web Security/DLP/CASB - data security, not SD-WAN/SASE connectivity - graded Partial for network visibility given the explicit visibility/reporting language for both companies."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_027","workbook_source_id":"MFG-027","url":"https://www.forcepoint.com/product/secure-sd-wan","title":"Forcepoint Secure SD-WAN product page","publisher":"forcepoint.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"superseded","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":["multi_site_production","global_delivery"],"named_customer":"Not named (product page; logo wall unspecified)","segment":"Unspecified","named_product_or_service":"Forcepoint Secure SD-WAN","service_family":"SD-WAN","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"Not stated in the reviewed source","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Not stated in the reviewed source","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"Data Security for Manufacturers","reviewer_summary":"Dedicated manufacturing industry page with three named customers quoted (ACME Brick, GG Group and Caesarstone). The customer index separately tags HUBER+SUHNER as Manufacturing, and HUBER+SUHNER is the one manufacturing reference that is also an SD-WAN deployment, cited on the Secure SD-WAN page with a '20+ Countries' and '45+ Cluster Nodes' scale figure. Graded on the H1 because that page was read once.","limitation_and_notes":"Tier 1 supplier material. Primary product page for the SD-WAN offer. Read four times with different extraction prompts; the appliance sizing phrases and the cost heading reproduced identically across passes, so those strings are treated as reliable verbatim. Customer logo wall and testimonial carousel also confirmed across passes."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_028","workbook_source_id":"MFG-028","url":"https://www.forcepoint.com/company/customers","title":"Forcepoint Customer Stories index","publisher":"forcepoint.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"superseded","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":[],"named_customer":"Multiple (index; industry tags only, not opened individually)","segment":"Multiple","named_product_or_service":"Not stated in the reviewed source","service_family":"Not relevant","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"Not stated in the reviewed source","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Not stated in the reviewed source","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"Data Security for Manufacturers","reviewer_summary":"Dedicated manufacturing industry page with three named customers quoted (ACME Brick, GG Group and Caesarstone). The customer index separately tags HUBER+SUHNER as Manufacturing, and HUBER+SUHNER is the one manufacturing reference that is also an SD-WAN deployment, cited on the Secure SD-WAN page with a '20+ Countries' and '45+ Cluster Nodes' scale figure. Graded on the H1 because that page was read once.","limitation_and_notes":"Tier 1 supplier material. Carries Forcepoint's own industry tags against each customer story, which is the single most useful sector artefact found. Read three times; the tag set (Healthcare, Education, Aerospace, Entertainment, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Energy, Information Technology) reproduced consistently."}]},{"slug":"netskope","name":"Netskope","marketplace_url":"https://netify.co.uk/marketplace/netskope/","research_status":"complete","overall_confidence":"low","fit_conclusion":"Netskope's manufacturing page pairs strong logos (Airbus, Yamaha Motor, Colgate-Palmolive, AVX, Orbia) with only one linked, anonymised case study (a Fortune 100 equipment manufacturer) - the logos support Global delivery on reputation alone, not a verified deployment.","gaps_and_unknowns":"None of the five multinational logos has an opened, named case study behind it yet - opening even one (Airbus or Yamaha would be the strongest starting points) would materially improve this provider's evidence base.","reviewed_by":"Harry Yelland","reviewed_date":"2026-09-09","source_count":2,"accepted_source_count":1,"requirements":[{"code":"factory_and_plant_connectivity","label":"Factory and plant connectivity","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"ot_and_it_segmentation","label":"OT and IT segmentation","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"industrial_iot","label":"Industrial IoT","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"edge_computing","label":"Edge computing","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"third_party_and_supplier_access","label":"Third-party and supplier access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"remote_engineer_access","label":"Remote engineer access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"resilience_and_uptime","label":"Resilience and uptime","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"multi_site_production","label":"Multi-site production","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"global_supply_chain","label":"Global supply chain","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity","label":"Cloud and data-centre connectivity","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_043"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"managed_operations","label":"Managed operations","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"network_visibility","label":"Network visibility","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"industrial_security_standards","label":"Industrial security standards","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"uk_delivery","label":"UK delivery","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"global_delivery","label":"Global delivery","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_042"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"}],"sources":[{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_043","workbook_source_id":"MFG-043","url":"https://www.netskope.com/solutions/manufacturing","title":"Netskope For Manufacturing","publisher":"netskope.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"accepted","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":["cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity"],"named_customer":"Not named (anonymised: 'Security Architect, Fortune 100 Equipment Manufacturer')","segment":"Industrial equipment","named_product_or_service":"Not stated in the reviewed source","service_family":"Supporting only","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"Not stated in the reviewed source","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Not stated in the reviewed source","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"Netskope helps the world's largest and most demanding manufacturing companies securely adopt the cloud to streamline operations and compete at all levels.","reviewer_summary":"Dedicated industry page plus an unusually strong set of manufacturer logos on the customers page: Airbus, Yamaha Motor Corporation, Colgate Palmolive, AVX Corporation and Orbia. No named manufacturing case study; the page testimonial is anonymised as 'Security Architect, Fortune 100 Equipment Manufacturer'.","limitation_and_notes":"Dedicated supplier industry page. Testimonial is anonymised ('Security Architect, Fortune 100 Equipment Manufacturer'), so the page itself plus manufacturer logos carry the grade."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_042","workbook_source_id":"MFG-042","url":"https://www.netskope.com/customers","title":"Netskope Customers","publisher":"netskope.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"superseded","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":["global_delivery"],"named_customer":"Airbus, BMO, Colgate Palmolive, ManTech, Prologis, JLL, Orbia, Republic Services, BLG, Culture Amp, GBfoods, The Auto Club Group, Elevance Health, Ross Stores, Sainsburys, Yamaha Motor Corporation, AVX Corporation (logos only; one linked case study)","segment":"Multiple","named_product_or_service":"Not stated (logos only)","service_family":"Not relevant","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"Not stated in the reviewed source","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Not stated in the reviewed source","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"Netskope helps the world's largest and most demanding manufacturing companies securely adopt the cloud to streamline operations and compete at all levels.","reviewer_summary":"Dedicated industry page plus an unusually strong set of manufacturer logos on the customers page: Airbus, Yamaha Motor Corporation, Colgate Palmolive, AVX Corporation and Orbia. No named manufacturing case study; the page testimonial is anonymised as 'Security Architect, Fortune 100 Equipment Manufacturer'.","limitation_and_notes":"Supplier's own customer index. Carries named customer logos (Airbus, BMO, Colgate Palmolive, ManTech, Prologis, JLL, Orbia, Republic Services, BLG, Culture Amp, GBfoods, The Auto Club Group, Elevance Health, Ross Stores, Sainsburys Supermarkets Ltd, Yamaha Motor Corporation, AVX Corporation) but only one linked case study. Logos alone are used as supporting, not sole, evidence."}]},{"slug":"palo-alto-prisma-sase","name":"Palo Alto Networks Prisma SASE","marketplace_url":"https://netify.co.uk/marketplace/palo-alto-prisma-sase/","research_status":"complete","overall_confidence":"low","fit_conclusion":"The Flex CISO quote (secure remote access for 20,000 people in seven days) is a genuine named-customer data point, but it describes workforce remote access broadly rather than factory-floor or OT-engineer access specifically, which is why Remote engineer access is only Partial.","gaps_and_unknowns":"Six further named customers (Westfield, Zespri, Colgate-Palmolive, Autodesk, Grupo Bimbo, Cordis) sit across two Prisma SASE index pages without individual case studies opened. No source yet ties Palo Alto to segmentation, multi-site or resilience fields.","reviewed_by":"Harry Yelland","reviewed_date":"2026-09-09","source_count":3,"accepted_source_count":1,"requirements":[{"code":"factory_and_plant_connectivity","label":"Factory and plant connectivity","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"ot_and_it_segmentation","label":"OT and IT segmentation","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"industrial_iot","label":"Industrial IoT","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"edge_computing","label":"Edge computing","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"third_party_and_supplier_access","label":"Third-party and supplier access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"remote_engineer_access","label":"Remote engineer access","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_054"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"resilience_and_uptime","label":"Resilience and uptime","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"multi_site_production","label":"Multi-site production","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"global_supply_chain","label":"Global supply chain","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity","label":"Cloud and data-centre connectivity","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_052","src_manufacturing_mfg_053"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"managed_operations","label":"Managed operations","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"network_visibility","label":"Network visibility","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"industrial_security_standards","label":"Industrial security standards","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"uk_delivery","label":"UK delivery","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"global_delivery","label":"Global delivery","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"}],"sources":[{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_054","workbook_source_id":"MFG-054","url":"https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/industry/manufacturing","title":"Manufacturing industry page","publisher":"paloaltonetworks.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"accepted","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":["remote_engineer_access"],"named_customer":"Flex","segment":"Electronics","named_product_or_service":"Prisma SASE (page context)","service_family":"SASE","estate":"20,000 people (remote access, not sites)","countries_or_regions":"Not stated in the reviewed source","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Remote access solution stood up in seven days - qualitative claim","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"If you can bring up a secure remote access solution for 20,000 people in seven days, I think that shows we made the right choice.","reviewer_summary":"Quote is attributed on the manufacturing industry page to Friedrich (Fritz) Wetschnig, CISO and VP of Enterprise IT at Flex. Dedicated manufacturing industry page headed 'Cybersecurity for Manufacturing'. Corroborated by Colgate-Palmolive, described on the SASE page as securing manufacturing with a unified platform approach, and by NXP labelled Manufacturing on the customers index.","limitation_and_notes":"Dedicated supplier page with named customer Flex and an attributed CISO quote."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_052","workbook_source_id":"MFG-052","url":"https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/sase","title":"Prisma SASE product page","publisher":"paloaltonetworks.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"superseded","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":["cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity"],"named_customer":"Westfield, Zespri, Colgate-Palmolive, Autodesk, Grupo Bimbo, Cordis","segment":"Multiple","named_product_or_service":"Prisma SASE","service_family":"SASE","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"Not stated in the reviewed source","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"No PoP count, coverage list, pricing or org-size language published, per note","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"If you can bring up a secure remote access solution for 20,000 people in seven days, I think that shows we made the right choice.","reviewer_summary":"Quote is attributed on the manufacturing industry page to Friedrich (Fritz) Wetschnig, CISO and VP of Enterprise IT at Flex. Dedicated manufacturing industry page headed 'Cybersecurity for Manufacturing'. Corroborated by Colgate-Palmolive, described on the SASE page as securing manufacturing with a unified platform approach, and by NXP labelled Manufacturing on the customers index.","limitation_and_notes":"Supplier's own SASE landing page. Names customers (Westfield, Zespri, Colgate-Palmolive, Autodesk, Grupo Bimbo, Cordis) but publishes no PoP count, no coverage list, no pricing and no organisation-size language."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_053","workbook_source_id":"MFG-053","url":"https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/sase/customer-stories","title":"Prisma SASE customer stories index","publisher":"paloaltonetworks.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"superseded","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":["cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity"],"named_customer":"Relias Healthcare, AutoNation, Ministry of Justice, RaceTrac, Colgate-Palmolive, Costa Group","segment":"Multiple","named_product_or_service":"Prisma SASE","service_family":"SASE","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"Not stated in the reviewed source","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Not stated in the reviewed source","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"If you can bring up a secure remote access solution for 20,000 people in seven days, I think that shows we made the right choice.","reviewer_summary":"Quote is attributed on the manufacturing industry page to Friedrich (Fritz) Wetschnig, CISO and VP of Enterprise IT at Flex. Dedicated manufacturing industry page headed 'Cybersecurity for Manufacturing'. Corroborated by Colgate-Palmolive, described on the SASE page as securing manufacturing with a unified platform approach, and by NXP labelled Manufacturing on the customers index.","limitation_and_notes":"Supplier's own SASE case study index. Gave story URLs and informal industry labels (Relias Healthcare, AutoNation automotive retail, Ministry of Justice government, RaceTrac retail, Colgate-Palmolive manufacturing, Costa Group agriculture)."}]},{"slug":"zscaler","name":"Zscaler","marketplace_url":"https://netify.co.uk/marketplace/zscaler/","research_status":"complete","overall_confidence":"low","fit_conclusion":"Four named multinational manufacturers (Siemens AG, AkzoNobel, Coats, Sanmina) with attributed CISO/GM quotes give Zscaler credible sector reach, but every quote is about zero-trust principles generally rather than a specific, measurable manufacturing deployment.","gaps_and_unknowns":"None of the four named customers has a quantified outcome (sites, countries, uptime) attached - the case studies exist but haven't been individually opened for the detail that would move fields like Multi-site production or Resilience past Not found.","reviewed_by":"Harry Yelland","reviewed_date":"2026-09-09","source_count":2,"accepted_source_count":1,"requirements":[{"code":"factory_and_plant_connectivity","label":"Factory and plant connectivity","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"ot_and_it_segmentation","label":"OT and IT segmentation","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"industrial_iot","label":"Industrial IoT","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"edge_computing","label":"Edge computing","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"third_party_and_supplier_access","label":"Third-party and supplier access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"remote_engineer_access","label":"Remote engineer access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"resilience_and_uptime","label":"Resilience and uptime","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"multi_site_production","label":"Multi-site production","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"global_supply_chain","label":"Global supply chain","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity","label":"Cloud and data-centre connectivity","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_067"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"managed_operations","label":"Managed operations","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"network_visibility","label":"Network visibility","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"industrial_security_standards","label":"Industrial security standards","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"uk_delivery","label":"UK delivery","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"global_delivery","label":"Global delivery","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_067"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"}],"sources":[{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_067","workbook_source_id":"MFG-067","url":"https://www.zscaler.com/industries/manufacturing","title":"Zscaler for Manufacturing","publisher":"zscaler.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"accepted","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":["cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity","global_delivery"],"named_customer":"Siemens AG, AkzoNobel, Coats, Sanmina","segment":"Multiple","named_product_or_service":"Zscaler zero trust platform (page context)","service_family":"SSE","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"Not stated in the reviewed source","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Qualitative CISO quotes only, no figures","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"Zero trust principles are incredibly relevant to smart factory initiatives.","reviewer_summary":"Quote attributed to Herbert Wegmann, General Manager, Siemens AG, on the dedicated manufacturing industry page. Three further named manufacturers with attributed CISO-level quotes: AkzoNobel (Raffaele Maresca, CISO), Coats (Benjamin Corll, VP of Cybersecurity) and Sanmina (Matt Ramberg, VP of Information Security). Page headline 'Siemens secures digital transformation in modern factory environments' confirms these are full case studies, not logos.","limitation_and_notes":"Supplier's own dedicated manufacturing page with four named manufacturers (Siemens AG, AkzoNobel, Coats, Sanmina) and attributed executive quotes. Strong for sector grading, vendor-claimed."},{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_066","workbook_source_id":"MFG-066","url":"https://www.zscaler.com/industries","title":"Zscaler Industries index","publisher":"zscaler.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"superseded","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":[],"named_customer":"Not applicable (no single named customer on this page)","segment":"Unspecified","named_product_or_service":"Not stated in the reviewed source","service_family":"Not relevant","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"Not stated in the reviewed source","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Not stated in the reviewed source","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"Zero trust principles are incredibly relevant to smart factory initiatives.","reviewer_summary":"Quote attributed to Herbert Wegmann, General Manager, Siemens AG, on the dedicated manufacturing industry page. Three further named manufacturers with attributed CISO-level quotes: AkzoNobel (Raffaele Maresca, CISO), Coats (Benjamin Corll, VP of Cybersecurity) and Sanmina (Matt Ramberg, VP of Information Security). Page headline 'Siemens secures digital transformation in modern factory environments' confirms these are full case studies, not logos.","limitation_and_notes":"Supplier's own industries hub. Used to establish which industries Zscaler actually publishes dedicated pages for: banking and financial services, healthcare, US public sector (federal, state and local), Australian government, China, education, manufacturing. Absence of retail, energy, transport, professional services and hospitality pages is itself informative."}]},{"slug":"lumen","name":"Lumen","marketplace_url":"https://netify.co.uk/marketplace/lumen/","research_status":"complete","overall_confidence":"low","fit_conclusion":"Four named customers (Upstate Niagara Cooperative, alphabroder, VSP Vision, Calgon Carbon) sit on a page with explicit SASE/SD-WAN framing, but as Harry's own review notes, the customer mix skews food co-op and apparel rather than heavy discrete manufacturing or OT/ICS environments.","gaps_and_unknowns":"None of the four named case studies has been individually opened, so no specific capability (multi-site, resilience, segmentation) can be tied to any of them yet. This is a sector-relevance lead list more than proven fit.","reviewed_by":"Harry Yelland","reviewed_date":"2026-09-09","source_count":1,"accepted_source_count":1,"requirements":[{"code":"factory_and_plant_connectivity","label":"Factory and plant connectivity","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"ot_and_it_segmentation","label":"OT and IT segmentation","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"industrial_iot","label":"Industrial IoT","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"edge_computing","label":"Edge computing","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"third_party_and_supplier_access","label":"Third-party and supplier access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"remote_engineer_access","label":"Remote engineer access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"resilience_and_uptime","label":"Resilience and uptime","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"multi_site_production","label":"Multi-site production","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"global_supply_chain","label":"Global supply chain","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity","label":"Cloud and data-centre connectivity","state":"partial","evidence_source_ids":["src_manufacturing_mfg_041"],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"managed_operations","label":"Managed operations","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"network_visibility","label":"Network visibility","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"industrial_security_standards","label":"Industrial security standards","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"uk_delivery","label":"UK delivery","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"},{"code":"global_delivery","label":"Global delivery","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-09"}],"sources":[{"id":"src_manufacturing_mfg_041","workbook_source_id":"MFG-041","url":"https://www.lumen.com/en-us/industries/manufacturing.html","title":"Manufacturing IT Solutions | Lumen","publisher":"lumen.com","publication_date":null,"checked_date":"2026-07-29","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"accepted","reviewer_confidence":"high","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":["cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity"],"named_customer":"Upstate Niagara Cooperative, alphabroder, VSP Vision, Calgon Carbon","segment":"Multiple","named_product_or_service":"Not named specifically (page carries 'explicit SASE and SD-WAN blocks' generically)","service_family":"Multiple","estate":"Not stated in the reviewed source","countries_or_regions":"Not stated (named customers skew US food co-op / apparel / activated carbon, per Harry's caveat)","ot_or_production_environment":"Not stated in the reviewed source","measured_or_stated_outcome":"Not stated in the reviewed source","industrial_standard_or_regulation":"None stated","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"Enhancing network performance for a cleaner world.","reviewer_summary":"Dedicated manufacturing industry page with four named customers: Upstate Niagara Cooperative, alphabroder, VSP Vision and Calgon Carbon, plus explicit SASE and SD-WAN blocks. The quoted string is the Calgon Carbon story headline. Caveat worth recording for the buyer: the named customers skew to food co-operative, apparel distribution and activated carbon rather than heavy discrete manufacturing or OT/ICS environments, so this is not evidence of industrial control network capability.","limitation_and_notes":"Supplier's dedicated manufacturing industry page with four named customers (Upstate Niagara Cooperative, alphabroder, VSP Vision, Calgon Carbon) and explicit SASE and SD-WAN blocks."}]},{"slug":"sonicwall-cse","name":"SonicWall Cloud Secure Edge","marketplace_url":"https://netify.co.uk/marketplace/sonicwall-cse/","research_status":"complete","overall_confidence":"low","fit_conclusion":"Named manufacturing customers exist for SonicWall's NGFW line, but none for Cloud Secure Edge (the SASE/SSE product tracked here), so no field can be evidenced.","gaps_and_unknowns":"Searched again on 2026-09-10 - found several named manufacturing customers (International Armored Group, SADAFCO, Amasya Şeker, Alexander Bürkle, Hobart Brothers) but all use SonicWall's NGFW/firewall products, not Cloud Secure Edge (the SASE/SSE product this workbook tracks) - per evidence rule 4 these can't be logged as SD-WAN/SASE/SSE evidence. 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There is no manufacturing industry page in SonicWall's Solutions by Industry navigation, so manufacturing is not a marketed vertical. Several other library entries look like manufacturers (Cavagna Group, a Turkish sugar producer, poultry producer Bupilic, Monte Carlo Fashions, Harsha Automotive) but their pages carry no sector label and their narratives are in PDFs blocked by robots.txt, so they were rejected. Confidence is medium because the grade rests on one page's meta description.","limitation_and_notes":"Supplier-published case study naming Gokaldas Exports as an apparel manufacturer. Sole clearly sector-labelled manufacturing evidence found. Also Asia Pacific (India) corroboration."}]},{"slug":"versa-networks","name":"Versa Networks","marketplace_url":"https://netify.co.uk/marketplace/versa-networks/","research_status":"complete","overall_confidence":"low","fit_conclusion":"Versa's own case-study library is dominated by telcos and service providers reselling Versa, not named manufacturers using it directly; none found.","gaps_and_unknowns":"Searched again on 2026-09-10 - Versa's own case-study library skews toward telcos and service providers reselling Versa (its actual go-to-market model), not named manufacturers using Versa directly. The dead MFG-060 lead still needs a working replacement; none was found this pass.","reviewed_by":"Harry Yelland","reviewed_date":"2026-09-10","source_count":1,"accepted_source_count":0,"requirements":[{"code":"factory_and_plant_connectivity","label":"Factory and plant connectivity","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"ot_and_it_segmentation","label":"OT and IT segmentation","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"industrial_iot","label":"Industrial IoT","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"edge_computing","label":"Edge computing","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"third_party_and_supplier_access","label":"Third-party and supplier access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"remote_engineer_access","label":"Remote engineer access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"resilience_and_uptime","label":"Resilience and uptime","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"multi_site_production","label":"Multi-site production","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"global_supply_chain","label":"Global supply chain","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity","label":"Cloud and data-centre connectivity","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"managed_operations","label":"Managed operations","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"network_visibility","label":"Network visibility","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"industrial_security_standards","label":"Industrial security standards","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"uk_delivery","label":"UK delivery","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"global_delivery","label":"Global delivery","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"}],"sources":[{"id":"evidence:versa-networks:4","workbook_source_id":"MFG-060","url":"https://versa-networks.com/about/","title":"Versa Networks - Company Overview / About page","publisher":"","publication_date":"2026-04-24","checked_date":"2026-09-16","source_ownership":"provider_authored","decision":"rejected","reviewer_confidence":"low","record_type":"Existing source lead","requirement_codes":[],"named_customer":null,"segment":null,"named_product_or_service":null,"service_family":null,"estate":null,"countries_or_regions":null,"ot_or_production_environment":null,"measured_or_stated_outcome":null,"industrial_standard_or_regulation":"This URL returned a 404 on the 2026-09-04 live check - needs a replacement primary source before use","regulatory_regime":null,"exact_supporting_wording":"https://versa-networks.com/solutions/industries/manufacturing/","reviewer_summary":"Partial on a navigation list entry only. The target page could not be loaded. Checked the homepage, the customers page and the docs Solution Use Cases page for the word manufacturing: not present in any of them. No named manufacturing customer or case study was found.","limitation_and_notes":"Tier 1 but weaker than a live page. This URL 404s; its 'Looking for something?' block renders the full site navigation including an Industry Solutions menu of dedicated industry page URLs. Read via https://r.jina.ai/https://versa-networks.com/company/. The individual industry pages could NOT be loaded: reader attempts returned HTTP 429 and direct attempts hit the bot wall. Verified navigation entries, not verified page content, so possibly stale. | Live link check 2026-09-04: this URL returned 404. Find the current primary source before accepting this row. [SD-WAN/SASE/SSE field: This URL 404s and only exposes site navigation, not product content - not usable as SD-WAN/SASE/SSE evidence.]"}]},{"slug":"virgin-media-o2","name":"Virgin Media O2 Business","marketplace_url":"https://netify.co.uk/marketplace/virgin-media-o2/","research_status":"complete","overall_confidence":"low","fit_conclusion":"Searched twice for a named manufacturing customer case study; only vendor-partnership and product-launch announcements were found, no customer evidence.","gaps_and_unknowns":"Searched again on 2026-09-10 (twice, different terms) - found vendor-partnership and product-launch announcements only, no named manufacturing customer case study. Virgin Media Business's own case-studies page (casestudies.com listing) doesn't currently include a manufacturing example.","reviewed_by":"Harry Yelland","reviewed_date":"2026-09-10","source_count":0,"accepted_source_count":0,"requirements":[{"code":"factory_and_plant_connectivity","label":"Factory and plant connectivity","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"ot_and_it_segmentation","label":"OT and IT segmentation","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"industrial_iot","label":"Industrial IoT","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"edge_computing","label":"Edge computing","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"third_party_and_supplier_access","label":"Third-party and supplier access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"remote_engineer_access","label":"Remote engineer access","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"resilience_and_uptime","label":"Resilience and uptime","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"multi_site_production","label":"Multi-site production","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"global_supply_chain","label":"Global supply chain","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"cloud_and_data_centre_connectivity","label":"Cloud and data-centre connectivity","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"managed_operations","label":"Managed operations","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"network_visibility","label":"Network visibility","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"industrial_security_standards","label":"Industrial security standards","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"uk_delivery","label":"UK delivery","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"},{"code":"global_delivery","label":"Global delivery","state":"not_found","evidence_source_ids":[],"verified_date":"2026-09-10"}],"sources":[]}]},"live_evidence_source":"https://netify.co.uk/sase/best/sd-wan-sase-providers-for-manufacturing/data.json","live_evidence":{"page":"https://netify.co.uk/sase/best/sd-wan-sase-providers-for-manufacturing","title":"Best SD-WAN and SASE providers for Manufacturing","description":"Explore published provider evidence for manufacturing networks. 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