Case Study: Leading European Automotive Manufacturing Company achieves faster recovery and saves thousands of IT man-hours with Acronis Backup Advanced

Acronis Improves Data Protection of a Leading European Automotive Manufacturer and Saves Thousands of IT Man-Hours

Leading European Automotive Manufacturing Company faced high stakes when process-control systems failed: each stoppage could halt production lines and cost the business heavily, while manual, infrequent imaging left them relying on 12–18 month-old restores and exposed to ransomware. After evaluating options and following vendor advice, the company selected Acronis and its Acronis Backup (Acronis Backup Advanced) solution to improve backup, recovery and data protection across plant control systems.

Acronis deployed Acronis Backup Advanced agents on each control system with Acronis Management Server per plant, enabling live, scheduled and ad hoc disk-image backups to centralized NAS or external drives, plus Acronis Active Protection and Universal Restore for hardware differences. As a result, backups run twice as often, recovery times are roughly halved, thousands of IT man‑hours are saved annually, and centralized management and fast image restores significantly reduced downtime and ransomware risk — all delivered by Acronis.