In modern industrial operations — whether in manufacturing, utilities, process plants, or distributed IoT environments — uptime is more than a metric.It’s a mandate . Every moment of downtime, every lost bit of data, and every frustrated operator erodes productivity, safety, and revenue. Yet most infrastructure failures don’t make headlines. They creep in quietly — a degraded memory module here, a network glitch there — and suddenly a critical system stutters, stalls, or stop