Leiria and Marinha Grande
IT Services for Businesses in Leiria
Leiria is industrial territory. Moulds, plastics, glass, packaging and agri-food — companies where IT doesn't just live in offices, it lives on the factory floor. DataRoad works with this profile: networks that cross warehouses, machines connected to the ERP and production that cannot stop because of a switch.
Shop floor
Indoor arena network, with dust, heat and vibration conditioning everything
Continuous production
Non-stop shifts — interventions have to fit into the windows
Export
Automotive and packaging customers auditing suppliers
Office and factory
Two realities in the same building, with opposing needs
What is different in Leiria
In most regions, a company's network serves people working on computers. In Leiria and Marinha Grande, it also serves machines: machining centres, injection moulding systems, scales, barcode readers, production terminals. That changes everything — the type of cabling, where the racks are located, how traffic is segmented and what happens when something fails at three in the morning.
The pavilion is not an office
Machining dust, high temperature near machines, vibration, and large distances between points. Cabling and racks need proper protection, and the route is rarely the shortest one on paper.
Machines on the same network as people
Production equipment connected to the network without any isolation poses a dual risk: an infected workstation reaches production, and old equipment without updates remains exposed. VLAN separation is no longer a refinement and has become a requirement.
The stop has an hourly charge
In a shift-working factory, an hour of network downtime is measured in lost production, not inconvenience. That defines the level of redundancy that makes sense and the speed of response that needs to be contracted.
Client audits
Suppliers to the automotive industry or large-scale retail receive security questionnaires and, sometimes, audits. Having the policies in place is one thing; being able to demonstrate them in writing is quite another.
Separate production from office, without separating management
The architecture we recommend in an industrial environment keeps everything on a single infrastructure, managed from a single point, but with divided traffic: production, office, visitors and CCTV in distinct segments, with firewall rules between them.
Thus the ERP talks to the machines where it needs to talk, and nothing else crosses that boundary.
What we provide in the region
| Service |
This includes |
| Assistance and support |
Remote and on-site support for workstations and staff, incident management and IT Unlimited at a fixed cost, with a response agreed in writing. |
| Networks and cabling |
Certified structured cabling for pavilion and office, Layer 3 switching, PoE and fibre between buildings. |
| Wireless industrial |
Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 7 with coverage study in pavilion, for mobile terminals and readers. |
| Cyber security |
Enterprise firewall, network segmentation between production and office, and managed antivirus. |
| Servers and data |
Servers, virtualisation and backups with documented restoration tests. |
| Communications |
IP telephone systems and CCTV video surveillance for perimeter and warehouses. |
A project with the same profile. At Panike, in the food industry, we implemented the operation's network and communications infrastructure — cabling, active hardware and wireless coverage in a production environment with strict hygiene, temperature and continuity requirements. It is the same type of challenge that we encounter in the industrial facilities in Leiria and Marinha Grande.
How we got started
1
Survey
Site visit, inventory of existing items, assessment of the condition of the hall and identification of unauthorised grid connections.
2
Proposal with scope
What is included, what is left out, response times and a fixed monthly fee — with downtime costs on the table to scale the redundancy.
3
Execution
Cabling, asset, security and stations in windows agreed with production. In a shift-based factory, this often means weekends or scheduled downtime.
4
Operation
Helpdesk, 24/7 monitoring and periodic reporting — including what is needed to respond to client audits.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you work with industrial companies, not just offices?
Yes, and that is where the difference is most noticeable. Hall network, production equipment connected, wireless coverage for mobile terminals and segmentation between production and office are routine work for us.
Can you intervene without stopping production?
In most cases yes, with planning. Anything that requires disruption is done within an agreed window — night-time, weekend or scheduled outage — and communicated in advance. What we do not do is start an intervention without a rollback plan.
Our clients send security questionnaires. Do you help to answer them?
We help. We apply the measures and deliver the documentation that proves them: backup policy with testing, access management, network segmentation, incident log and recovery plan.
They come from Lisbon. Is that a problem for face-to-face support?
Most incidents are resolved remotely, and monitoring detects a large part before they affect operations. For what requires presence, the travel time is written into the contract, so there are no expectations based on guesswork.
How much is it?
The model IT Unlimited fix a monthly fee per defined scope, with no call counting — allowing you to budget for the year without surprises.
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