Case Study: Nissan Sunderland achieves faster detection of production issues and increased efficiency with Milestone Systems' XProtect Enterprise

Milestone helps Nissan UK identify production issues and increase efficiencies at its state-of-the-art Sunderland Plant

Nissan Motor Manufacturing UK’s Sunderland plant needed a faster, more flexible way to monitor production and drive continual quality improvements. Existing ad hoc analog cameras and DVRs were unreliable and ill‑suited to the factory environment, and managers wanted to choose camera types, locations and recording settings, use the plant’s fiber network rather than new cabling, and get instant live and recorded video at any desktop to reduce costly line stoppages.

Milestone XProtect Enterprise was deployed on Nissan’s high‑speed fiber backbone, managed by in‑house IT with partner Express IT and scaled via VMware virtualization. The open platform now supports about 300 IP cameras and 300 users, replacing standalone analog systems and giving managers direct control, instant live/playback access and configurable storage/frame rates. The result: faster problem identification and resolution, significant time and cost savings, improved quality assurance, and a scalable system being extended to site security with HD cameras and 28‑day recording.

Nissan Sunderland

Damian Adams

IT Support Engineer, Nissan Motor Manufacturing UK