We've been lucky enough to build machines to specification for one of County Kildare's largest integrated circuit chip maufacturers, and for many other production environments

What we've had to do is isolate and provide redundancy for as many points of failure as possible, this includes

• the replacement of hard drives with solid state flash drives,
• implmenting hot swappable power supplies,
• implementing RAID configuration depending on base requirements such as speed versus data availability
• removal of non essential OS elements
• UPS (uninterruptible power supplies)
• Infrastructural Anaysis
• Installation of additional cooling/air extraction where heat build up may be an issue
• writing watchdog processes to maintain status and report on unstarted services/programs
• writing weekly procedures to produce and email a report on the overall health of the system, including disk space, cpu utilisation etc etc