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Industrial IT management means one team owns the full stack around your production workflow: the machine and controller network (kept strictly separated from office IT), industrial WiFi that survives metal and motors, connectivity between machines, sensors, and your ERP/MES systems, resilient dual-path internet, and 24/7 monitoring with defined escalation options for covered clients - all scoped to your floor.
We start with the workflow, not the wiring
Before touching hardware, we walk the floor and map how production actually moves: which machines feed data where, what the operators scan and when, which systems a stoppage actually stops. An infrastructure assessment that skips this produces an office network wearing a hard hat - technically fine, operationally wrong.
The output is a documented map of your environment: every switch, access point, controller connection, and data flow - usually the first such document the facility has ever had. From there, every design decision traces back to one question: what keeps the line running?
Machine connectivity: the network behind the automation
- OT/IT segmentation: production machines, PLCs, and controllers live on their own isolated network segments - a virus on an office PC must never be able to reach a production controller, and an internet outage must never stop a machine talking to the machine next to it.
- Deterministic local links: machine-to-machine and machine-to-MES/ERP traffic stays on engineered local paths with priority handling, so line data doesn't queue behind someone's video call.
- Industrial WiFi: surveyed around metal, motors, and interference - with coverage validated at the height and locations your scanners, tablets, and AGVs actually operate.
- Legacy equipment support: that 15-year-old CNC with an ancient network port still needs to talk to modern systems - safely bridged and isolated, not exposed.
Around the clock means engineered for failure
A 24/7 operation can't rely on hardware that has never been asked "what happens when you die?" We build for the failure modes: dual internet paths with automatic failover for cloud-dependent systems, spare switch configurations staged for replacement, UPS coverage sized for graceful shutdown, and monitoring tied to the escalation path defined for covered systems.
Maintenance happens in your downtime windows, planned with production, never during a run. If your facility has no downtime window at all, we design changes to be executed live with rollback ready - the same discipline behind our zero-disruption cutover work.
Security for environments that can't just 'patch everything'
Production controllers often can't be patched or run endpoint agents - vendor support and uptime requirements forbid it. Industrial security therefore lives in the network: strict segmentation, firewall policy controlling exactly which systems may talk to which machines, monitored remote-vendor access instead of standing VPN tunnels for equipment suppliers, and logging that shows who touched what.
This is where our expert-level firewall engineering matters most: ransomware that stops an office costs a bad week; ransomware that reaches a production network can stop the operation.
What end-to-end management covers, and what it costs
- Full infrastructure ownership: machine network, office network, WiFi, firewalls, servers, and endpoints - one team, one number.
- ERP/MES/WMS infrastructure support and vendor coordination - we speak both IT and production.
- 24/7 monitoring with response and escalation terms defined in the managed agreement, plus scheduled preventive maintenance in your downtime windows.
- Verified backups of every configuration and business system, with tested restores.
- Quarterly reviews with plain-language reporting: incidents prevented, capacity trends, and a roadmap tied to production plans.
Pricing is a fixed monthly fee scoped to the floor - machine count, network complexity, and coverage hours - so IT becomes a predictable operating cost. It starts with a fixed-fee infrastructure assessment: we map your environment, find the single points of failure, and hand you the findings whether or not you proceed with us. See our warehouse & industrial IT services - and when the infrastructure is solid, AI automations built on your WMS/ERP data are the natural next layer.