The Case for Australian Made Server Racks

From an eco friendly per­spec­tive, imported server racks are hard to justify. If you con­sid­er­ing that an average 40RU unit is nearly 2 meters high and 600mm wide, much of the unit cost absorbed in freight and de­liv­er­ing a con­sid­er­able carbon footprint, imported server racks don’t seem like a clever choice.
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Now if you were to man­u­fac­ture locally and spend more on R&D, use superior materials and eco friendly finishes and be in a position to offer a superior quality product in the same price range, you would have to admit there is a case for Australia made servers racks.
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And what if your highly qualified Aus­tralian design team worked closely with local IT in­stallers, to find out what issues they had with existing server racks, to design out all of the problems and designed in the features that made server rack in­stal­la­tions easier, more flexible and faster.What if you were then in a position to use the latest in lean man­u­fac­tur­ing tech­niques and the world’s best automated precision man­u­fac­tur­ing tech­nol­o­gy to delivery with shorter lead times and provide fast local support.
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At some point you would have to consider that any pre conceived ideas you had that imported server racks were a better choice would have to be replaced with the un­der­stand­ing that the best choice is an Australia designed, man­u­fac­tured, eco friendly finished NIE server rack from Gilkon, makes much, much more sense.
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Aus­tralian man­u­fac­tur­ers may not be com­pet­i­tive in every area of man­u­fac­tur­ing but there is a very good case for man­u­fac­tur­ing of products, such as server racks, being man­u­fac­tured in Australia, by worlds best practice man­u­fac­tures such as Wilson & Gilkes.