Manufacturing
Every hour offline is money you don't get back.
Production systems, scheduling, and your team all depend on IT that stays up. We keep the plant connected and recover fast when something does go wrong, because downtime here is measured in dollars, not minutes.
The realities of manufacturing
Why IT feels riskier here than almost anywhere.
Downtime is a line on the P&L
A fault that stops production costs far more than an IT ticket. It's orders delayed, wages paid for nothing, and customers let down. Prevention costs a rounding error next to one hour down.
Old systems meet new threats
Plant floors run equipment and software built before security was a concern. That old, critical gear is exactly what attackers aim at.
IT sits between the office and the floor
Sales, engineering, ERP, and the shop floor all depend on the same network. A problem anywhere slows everything down, and nobody wants to own it.
The person who 'knows the plant' can retire
When knowledge walks out the door, the plant is exposed. Depending on one person's memory is a risk you can fix.
How we address it
What we handle for manufacturing
A plant isn't an office with machines. We treat uptime like the money it is, protect the old systems attackers target, and write everything down so the business doesn't live or die on one person's memory.
- Reliable networks your production depends on
- Safe zones that protect the shop floor
- Backups and recovery that actually cover your data
- Support for ERP and business software
- Monitoring across all your locations
- Vendor management aligned to plant and office needs
The services this comes down to
The services that make it happen.
Network management
We build, watch, and care for your network and computers so they stay up. When something starts to fail, we catch it before you do.
Backups & recovery
'Restore from backup' should be a plan, not a prayer. We make sure your data can really come back, and we practice getting it back.
Cybersecurity
Firewalls, device protection, email filtering, and the safeguards auditors look for. We defend you in the background, so ransomware stays a story that happens to someone else.
Questions they ask
Before you decide.
We have control systems other IT vendors won't touch. Can you help?
We work with the reality of plant floors: old systems, hard-to-update equipment, machines that can't just be patched. Our work is protecting and isolating them, not pretending they're modern servers.
How do you handle multiple locations?
We watch and manage every site from one place, with coverage that matches how critical each location is. More sites make us more useful, not slower.
What's the biggest thing you usually find?
Untested backups and an exposed shop floor. Both are fixable, and both are why people call us before the incident instead of after.
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We look at your network, security, backups, and audit readiness. Then we tell you in plain words what's really at risk. No pressure, no jargon, no scare tactics. If everything's fine, we'll tell you that too.
Headquartered in Livonia, Michigan · A Qualigence company
What we check
- How healthy your network is
- Where you could be hacked
- Whether your backups would really work
- How ready you are for an audit
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