Industry
Manufacturing and logistics
When the line stops, the cost is measured per hour and everyone knows the number. Manufacturing IT work is scheduled around production, not the other way around, and the infrastructure has to keep running in environments that were not designed for it.
- Projects scheduled inside plant shutdown windows
- ERP and production system infrastructure
- Multi-site WAN and remote facility connectivity
- Data center refresh and virtualization migration
- Business continuity planned around production schedules
- Support across sites in multiple time zones
What we deliver
Production system infrastructure
The platforms underneath ERP, MES, warehouse management, and shop-floor systems.
- Server and storage platform design sized to ERP requirements
- Virtualization platform refresh and hypervisor migration
- High-availability clustering for systems tied to production uptime
- Database platform support, including Oracle and SQL Server infrastructure
- Performance investigation on systems that slow at shift change or month end
Multi-site network
Connectivity between plants, warehouses, and offices that frequently were not planned as one network.
- WAN design, circuit migration, and carrier transition
- Switching and wireless refresh across plant and warehouse floors
- Firewall consolidation and consistent policy across sites
- Segmentation separating production, corporate, and guest networks
- New facility build-outs and site relocations
Continuity
Recovery planning where the cost of downtime is already quantified in operational terms.
- Recovery objectives set against the real hourly cost of a stoppage
- Immutable backup resistant to ransomware deletion
- Replication and disaster recovery across sites or into Azure
- Tested failover with measured recovery time per system
- Runbooks written for execution during a production outage
Security
Manufacturing is a favoured ransomware target precisely because downtime is so expensive.
- Network segmentation isolating operational technology from corporate IT
- Microsoft Defender and endpoint protection across sites
- Identity hardening, MFA, and privileged access separation
- Vulnerability management with a realistic patching cadence for production
- Authorized penetration testing and remediation
Questions
What people ask
Manufacturing and logistics — questions
How do you work around production schedules?
Shutdown windows, changeover periods, and low-volume shifts are established before the project plan exists, and the plan is built backwards from them. Work is staged so each phase can complete or roll back inside its window. We assume production takes precedence and plan for work to be deferred rather than rushed.
Can you support sites in multiple states or time zones?
Yes. Our delivery is remote-first and coverage windows are defined in the agreement, so multi-site and multi-time-zone support is a scheduling question rather than a capability one. On-site work is arranged where a project genuinely needs hands in a rack.
Do you touch shop-floor and OT systems?
We work on the IT side of the boundary and on the segmentation that defines it — isolating operational technology from corporate networks, controlling what can cross, and reviewing the architecture. We do not modify control systems or PLC programming, and we coordinate with your automation vendor where the boundary is genuinely ambiguous.
Our ERP vendor says the infrastructure is the problem. Can you settle it?
That is a familiar standoff and usually resolvable with data. We benchmark the infrastructure layers — storage latency, network path, host resource contention, database configuration — and produce evidence that either identifies a genuine infrastructure constraint or demonstrates the platform is performing within specification. Either outcome ends the argument.
Other industries
Working in manufacturing & logistics?
Tell us the environment and the constraint you are working around. Sector context shapes the answer more than most vendors admit.