Manufacturing facilities and industrial sites are producing goods and delivering services essential to the economy, increasingly on a global scale. Interruption of production or service delivery may lead to the disruption of supply chains and consequently to production downtime in downstream production stages. Business continuity is therefore high on the agenda of risk management. Production facilities are often complex infrastructures where fire protection design to prescriptive codes alone may not adequately ensure the goals of business continuity. An Early Warning Fire Detection system engineered on a performance-based design approach helps to close that gap.