MANUFACTURING
When the line stops, nobody asks whose network it was.
Your plant floor and your office grew up separately and got connected by accident. centrexIT runs the whole environment, so a patch window, a vendor's remote session, or a machine nobody can update does not become an afternoon of lost production.
What we hear from shops your size
- The plant network and the business network are one flat network. Everyone knows it, and there has never been budget to fix it.
- Machines run operating systems that cannot be patched, with a vendor who will not support anything newer.
- Integrators and machine builders hold standing remote access that nobody has reviewed since it was set up.
- Backups cover the servers but not the PLC and HMI configurations, so a recovery restores the paperwork and not the line.
- Nobody owns a plant floor problem at 2am. The IT person owns the office and goes home.
What changes when we run it
The two networks get separated.
Segmentation planned around production reality, not around a diagram. The line keeps running while it happens.
Unpatchable machines get contained.
We build the boundary around them so they cannot take anything else down.
Vendor access gets a front door.
Named, time-bound, logged. Your integrator still gets in. So does your audit trail.
Somebody answers at 2am.
One number, one team, and the plant floor is explicitly in scope.
Check Your Own Floor
Production Downtime Calculator
Price a line stoppage in lost margin, idle labor, and expedited freight, monthly and annualized.
Try Tool →OT Convergence Scorecard
Ten questions on how exposed the seam is between your plant floor and your office network.
Try Tool →The 3 AM Test
What happens if your systems go down at 3 AM? Test your incident response readiness.
Try Tool →Business Continuity Checklist
Fifteen questions on whether the business keeps running through a disruption, and where the plan has gaps.
Try Tool →Request the conversation
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