Hughes Managed Low Earth Orbit (LEO) for Manufacturing
Reliable, High-Speed Connectivity That Keeps Production Moving
Modern manufacturing has numerous moving parts. Keeping track of all this activity is essential for your business to be efficient, profitable and competitive. But as your supply chains and smart factories grow more complex, maintaining the level of connectivity these systems demand can be a struggle, especially in remote or industrial zones.
Hughes Managed LEO (Low Earth Orbit) satellite service for manufacturing brings low-latency, high-speed connectivity to your production lines, warehouses, and global supply chains, delivering resilience, security, and scalability where it's needed most.
Keeping Manufacturing Running in a Connected World
With real-time data exchange, automation and global collaboration critical for the productivity of your operations, consistent, high-performance connectivity becomes mission-critical. However, there are several unique industry requirements that present challenges to the performance of your network.
For example:
Smart Operations and Cloud-Based Platforms Depend on Top-Grade Connectivity
As your business adopts advanced digital technology, such as smart machinery, industrial IoT systems and cloud-based applications, reliable connectivity becomes crucial for delivering real-time data and improving efficiency. Any network instability can bring your productions to a halt.
Downtime Disrupts Production and Profits
With so many interconnected systems in your manufacturing operations, any momentary lapse in network performance can cascade into delays, bottlenecks, and missed delivery windows, impacting everything from your KPIs to your customer satisfaction and reputation.
Remote and Industrial Locations Pose Coverage and Deployment Challenges
Establishing reliable connectivity can be complex, especially if you are expanding your manufacturing facilities in industrial zones or rural areas. In these environments, agile, rapidly deployable solutions combined with ubiquitous network coverage are essential for successful scaling, ensuring your new sites are up and running fast.
Workforce Safety and Productivity Depend on Connectivity
Using connected wearables, video-based training, and remote support tools is an excellent approach to enhancing the safety and collaboration of your team on the factory floor and when on the move. Yet, these benefits are out of reach without stable, high-speed connectivity to power these devices.
Addressing Cybersecurity in an Interconnected Environment
With more cloud platforms, connected machines, and remote access tools, the risk of cyber threats to your manufacturing business increases. Protecting sensitive data, production systems, and intellectual property requires robust, managed security across both IT and OT environments.
As manufacturers face growing pressure to boost productivity and scale operations securely, the need for a network that can keep pace has never been greater. Here’s where Hughes Managed LEO Satellite Service steps up to offer a high-performing, agile and secure solution.
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Why Manufacturers Choose Hughes Managed LEO Satellite Service
Hughes Managed LEO is engineered to meet the demands of digitally driven manufacturing, offering top-quality, consistent network performance and easy scalability for complex operational environments.
Low-Latency, High-Speed Connectivity
Our managed service leverages OneWeb's LEO satellites to ensure fast, consistent connectivity. Providing 100% enterprise-dedicated network capacity, Hughes Managed LEO supports real-time automation, smart sensor data flow, and cloud platform access for time-critical decisions.
Comprehensive Coverage for Distributed Facilities
With an extensive LEO satellite network, our managed service keeps production connected across all your regional plants, remote sites, and supply chain points, wherever they’re located.
Built-in Redundancy for Maximum Uptime
Hughes Managed LEO service includes resilient, failover-ready connectivity solutions that keep operations running and avoid costly delays even when primary links are disrupted.
Secure Communications Across OT and IT Systems
As a fully managed solution, Hughes provides 24/7 monitoring and protection, alongside built-in encryption, to ensure secure data exchange across all your industrial systems, cloud platforms, and remote endpoints.
Flexible Deployment to Support Growth
Hughes Managed LEO is designed for fast, simple deployment, easily connecting new manufacturing facilities or retrofit, legacy environments without costly infrastructure build-outs.
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Fully Managed Connectivity That Keeps Manufacturing Moving
Your production lines can’t pause for network issues. With Hughes as your highly experienced managed network provider, every aspect of your connectivity is taken care of. As an end-to-end service, we deliver support from the outset, managing design, deployment and optimisation. Once your solution is established, our 24/7 support and security services give you the confidence to leave network management in our capable hands, meaning you can focus on business output, quality, and innovation.
In manufacturing, optimisation is everything. Discover how Hughes can power up your production network.