Manufacturing IT
Downtime on the floor is expensive. IT failures cause it.
What this page covers
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- OT/IT network segmentation
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- Production continuity and uptime
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- ERP and manufacturing software infrastructure
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- Hardware for production and office environments
OT/IT network segmentation
Office networks and plant floor networks should not be the same network. When they are, a ransomware infection in accounting can reach production equipment. We design and implement network segmentation that keeps your operational technology isolated from your business IT without preventing the data exchange your operations team needs. Proper segmentation is the single highest-return cybersecurity investment for most manufacturers.
Production continuity and uptime
Unplanned production downtime costs money by the hour. Our monitoring covers the servers, switches, and connectivity that your MES, ERP, and production software depend on. We catch early failure indicators — overloaded systems, degraded network links, storage filling up — before they cause a line stoppage. When something does fail, we have documented escalation procedures and redundant backup systems.
ERP and manufacturing software infrastructure
We manage the servers, network, and workstations your ERP, MES, and production management systems run on. Whether your environment is cloud-hosted, on-premise, or hybrid, we make sure the infrastructure layer is healthy and doesn't become the variable that limits your production capacity.
Hardware for production and office environments
Industrial-grade workstations, panel PCs, rugged tablets for the floor, and standard office equipment for back-office staff — we source and configure hardware for both contexts. We manage the asset lifecycle: procurement, configuration, deployment, and refresh on a schedule that aligns with your production planning.
Cybersecurity for manufacturing
Manufacturing was the most attacked industry sector globally for the third consecutive year. Threat actors know that production downtime creates maximum pressure to pay ransoms. We layer endpoint detection, MFA, email security, and air-gapped backups to reduce both the probability of an incident and the blast radius if one occurs.
Common questions
Do you work with PLCs and SCADA systems?
We manage the IT infrastructure around them — the networks they connect to, the servers they report to, and the workstations operators use. PLC and SCADA programming is the domain of your automation vendors or in-house controls engineers. We focus on making sure the IT layer doesn't become a vulnerability or point of failure for those systems.
What does 'network segmentation' actually look like in practice?
It means your plant floor network is on separate VLANs or physical segments from your office network, with a firewall controlling what can cross between them. The firewall allows specific, documented data flows — ERP pulling production counts, for example — while blocking everything else. If ransomware hits your office, it can't reach your PLCs or historians.
Our production line does not stop. How do you handle maintenance windows?
Carefully. We schedule patches, firmware updates, and maintenance work around your production schedule — off shifts, planned downtime, or shift change windows. Critical security patches that can't wait get tested in a staging environment before production deployment. Nothing goes into production without your sign-off on the window.
Can you help us with hardware for a new production line?
Yes. We can source the IT hardware for a new line — industrial workstations, networking equipment, servers, UPS units — and coordinate with your automation vendors and systems integrators on the network design. We handle procurement and configuration; your SI handles the controls integration.
How do you protect against the increasing ransomware targeting manufacturers?
Defense in depth: network segmentation to contain spread, EDR on every manageable endpoint, MFA on all remote access and critical systems, email filtering to stop the most common initial access vector, and tested air-gapped backups so recovery is possible without paying a ransom. No single control stops everything — the combination raises the bar significantly.
Ready to talk manufacturing IT?
Book a free 30-minute call. We'll look at your current environment, identify the gaps, and tell you what we'd actually change.