First, the system depends on buffers between assembly operations to minimize downtime.

"You want to minimize downtime for the most efficient production," Mr. Ewing said.

When the technology firm BlueSwitch needed new offices last year, it sought space offering wireless Internet access to minimize downtime during the relocation.

Dataprobe is a manufacturer of systems for minimizing downtime to critical data and communication networks.

Students can rarely afford to be without a computer for a week or more, and the standardization allows the university to minimize downtime.

All businesses can minimise wastage costs and downtime and still ensure that the cost of providing their product or service remains competitive.

It is a start-to-finish race, so the midpoint pitstop is made as quickly as possible in order to minimize downtime.

This avoids the long times associated with a full reboot, and can help systems to meet high-availability requirements by minimizing downtime.

Many newer facilities (and some older facilities through retrofitting) have similar drainage systems to minimize downtime after rain delays.

The master server synchronizes continually with its slaves so in the event of failure a slave can be promoted to become the new master, minimizing downtime.