Automation firm appoints new product manager to champion the concept of availability

Rob Dinsmore - new product manager

HardwarePT, the hardware and availability business unit of Cheadle based SolutionsPT, has appointed Rob Dinsmore as product manager. Dinsmore will be championing the company’s availability portfolio, including products from Stratus Technologies and ACP ThinManager as well as SolutionsPT’s own managed care support services.
Availability of a system over its life-cycle is typically measured as a factor of its reliability. As a result, it should be amongst the most important goals of any industrial computing system manager. Good hardware choices, reliability engineering and specialist maintenance techniques provide the means to ensure that availability performance requirements are achieved.

Put simply, it is essential for industries such as oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, waste and petrochemicals to invest in robust industrial computing technology, to reduce costly downtime.

In a previous role as internal account manager for Wonderware UK, Dinsmore gained valuable insight into the needs of industrial computing customers. As a result, he understands that tailoring products and services to suit the needs of each industrial sector is one of the cornerstones of availability. His responsibilities at Wonderware UK included new business development in the North East and Yorkshire regions. Before joining Wonderware, Dinsmore worked for IRIS Business Software as well as GE Commercial. He graduated from Sheffield University with a BSc in Computer Science in 2003.

“I believe that HardwarePT has launched some great products and my job is to grow the business even further,” explained Dinsmore. “My ambition is to position the company as an expert in the field of availability solutions”, he concluded.