July 29, 2025 Modern Visitor Security for Today’s Manufacturers

New tech-driven visitor tools help manufacturers protect people, property, and IP while creating safer, smarter facilities.

By Temi Erinoso & Richard Hills

A seemingly harmless factory tour that turns into an opportunity for industrial espionage. An unscreened vendor with a hidden agenda who walks away with sensitive production details, or intentionally inflicts damage to property.

A security breach like this can be devastating to a manufacturer, whether it results in the loss of intellectual property, operational downtime, lost revenue, damage to a company’s reputation and relationships, or even physical harm to a building and the people and assets within it. Scenarios like this unfold every day, confronting manufacturers with risks they can’t afford to ignore.

Addressing the physical and cyber risks that manufacturers face takes a sophisticated, modern approach to visitor management, one that accounts for both the who (the people you physically let into your buildings) and the what (the risks to which your organization is exposed via its digital infrastructure). The good news for manufacturers and their site managers, operations teams and security staff is that a new wave of intelligent, powerful, cost-efficient and easy-to-implement visitor management capabilities is ready to deploy. Here’s a look at five that are proving particularly valuable to manufacturers, whether they have one facility to manage or multiple:

As complex as many manufacturing operations have become with expansion, regulation, globalization, and varied, hybrid workforces, and as vital as intellectual property is to a manufacturer’s growth, there’s a strong business case to embrace the new wave of visitor management capabilities to safeguard your most valuable assets.

About the Authors:

Temi Erinoso is the vice president of customer success and account management for the SMB segment at Sign In Solutions. She’s responsible for defining and executing the post-sale strategy for SMB customers, including driving customer success outcomes, expanding product adoption, and building a scalable account management function that aligns with commercial and retention goals.

Richard Hills is vice president of advanced technologies at Sign In Solutions, where he heads up innovation projects and AI across the business, in particular how AI can be applied to real problems in visitor management.

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