Manufacturing IT,
line-running ready.
Managed IT for manufacturers, fabricators, and specialty-goods producers. Plant-floor connectivity that holds, ERP that stays synced with the line, and the OT/IT boundary engineered to keep production moving when the corporate side is having a bad day.
IT bad day,
line keeps running.
Manufacturers do not get to take the line down because corporate had a phishing incident. We engineer the OT/IT boundary correctly: plant network on its own segment, policy at the firewall, and a controlled data path from ERP to MES that holds whether the corporate domain is having a good day or a bad one.
- Plant network on its own VLAN, addressed separately, policed at the firewall. Lateral movement from corporate to PLC is not a thing.
- Production schedule, work orders, and shipping signals move on a controlled path. ERP to MES, one direction by design.
- HMIs, vision PCs, and quality stations under MDM where the OS supports it. Image baseline locked, replacements ready.
ERP synced.
Lines committed.
The order book runs the plant. ERP runs the order book. We keep the platform under the ERP healthy: the integrations into MES, EDI, and the shipping carriers monitored, the quality records audit-ready, and the engineering IP protected from the contractor laptop that should not have it after the project closes.
- NetSuite, Sage 100/300, Epicor, MS Dynamics BC, and QuickBooks Enterprise supported as the systems they are. The ERP integrations into MES, EDI, and shipping kept current and monitored.
- OT/IT segmentation engineered correctly. Production network on its own VLAN, jump-host or data diode pattern between zones, so a corporate phishing click does not stop a line.
- Quality records (ISO 9001, CAPAs, training, audit evidence) under IT controls that pass an external audit without a fire drill.
- Engineering CAD and BoMs protected as IP. Encryption at rest and in transit, retention enforced, contractor access scoped tight and time-bounded.
- Plant-floor endpoints (HMIs, vision PCs, label printers) under MDM where the OS supports it. Imaging baseline locked. Spare pool kitted. Same-day replacement.
Six things every
plant we run gets.
The same program every time, sized for the operation. One line through a multi-shift plant. Specialty fabric, metal, plastics, food, beverage, or defense-adjacent work. None of this is an add-on. It is what managed IT for manufacturing means.
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OT/IT Segmentation
Plant network on its own segment, jump-host or data diode between zones, policy enforced at the firewall. A phishing click on a corporate laptop does not reach the PLC.
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ERP Stack Support
NetSuite, Sage, Epicor, MS Dynamics BC, and QuickBooks Enterprise supported as the systems they are. The platform underneath kept current, and the integrations into MES, EDI, and shipping that we run are monitored.
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Quality & Compliance Records
ISO 9001 evidence, CAPAs, training records, and audit packs under IT controls that pass an external audit clean.
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Engineering IP
CAD, BoMs, and process documentation protected as IP. Encryption, retention, and contractor scoping engineered for the engineering team's actual workflow.
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NIST 800-171 / CMMC
If you do defense-adjacent work, the controls and the evidence pack are on a defensible cadence. Not theatre, the actual posture.
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Plant-Floor Endpoints
HMIs, vision PCs, label printers, and quality stations under MDM where the OS supports it. Image baseline locked. Same-day replacement.
What buyers usually
want to know.
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What is an operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) boundary, and why does it matter on a plant floor?
It is the engineered line between your corporate network (IT) and your production network (OT), with policy enforced at the firewall. It matters because the things that run a line, programmable logic controllers (PLCs), human-machine interfaces (HMIs), supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), and your manufacturing execution system (MES), cannot tolerate the same interruptions a corporate desktop can. We put the plant network on its own segment so a problem on the corporate side does not reach the equipment that keeps the line moving.
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Which enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems do you support?
We support NetSuite, Sage, Epicor, and Microsoft Dynamics Business Central, plus QuickBooks Enterprise. We keep the platform underneath the ERP healthy and current, and we monitor the integrations that feed your MES, electronic data interchange (EDI), and shipping carriers. The goal is an order book that stays synced with the line, not an ERP that drifts out of step with what the plant is actually building.
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How do you keep the production line running if IT has an issue?
The plant network sits on its own segment with a jump-host or data-diode pattern between the zones, so a corporate phishing click or an IT outage does not stop a line. Production schedule, work orders, and shipping signals move on a controlled path from ERP to MES, one direction by design. We engineer the boundary so the line keeps running whether the corporate domain is having a good day or a bad one.
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How do you protect older machine controllers or equipment that cannot be patched?
Network segmentation. When a PLC, HMI, or controller is too old to patch or runs an operating system the vendor no longer supports, we isolate it on the production segment and police access at the firewall so it is never reachable from corporate. Lateral movement from a corporate laptop to a PLC is not a thing we allow. Where the operating system supports it, plant-floor endpoints like HMIs and vision PCs also go under mobile device management (MDM) with a locked image baseline.
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Can you handle the controls and evidence for defense-adjacent work like NIST 800-171 or CMMC?
Yes. If you do defense-adjacent work, we keep the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-171 controls and the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) evidence pack on a defensible cadence. That sits alongside the quality records work we already do, ISO 9001 evidence, corrective and preventive actions (CAPAs), training records, and audit packs under IT controls that pass an external audit clean.
Ready for IT that
keeps the line running?
Tell us about the plant. We will listen for the lines, the ERP, the quality regime, and where the corporate-side and the plant-side meet, and come back with a plan that keeps production moving on the worst day.
- No sales script. A real conversation with someone who gets it.
- A 30 minute call, an honest read on your current setup.
- Straight pricing. No surprise invoices.
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