Manufacturing

What makes manufacturing different

Even planned downtime is expensive. A maintenance window that would be unremarkable for a web application means a stopped line, and the people who own that schedule are usually not in the IT organization.

Plant systems also outlast everything around them. It’s normal to find equipment whose vendor support ended years ago sitting next to a workload we’re being asked to modernize. Replacing it is rarely an option.

How we work here

We design for the constraint rather than around it: isolate what cannot change, put a supportable boundary in front of it, and modernize what sits on the other side. The result is an architecture shaped by your plant rather than by a reference diagram, and a much shorter list of things that can stop the line.

What we’ve done in this sector

In prior roles, our people spent thirteen years inside a $2B multinational manufacturer, directing the enterprise storage, server platform, and database teams behind operations in North America, Europe, and Asia.

The work there was mostly infrastructure economics under a compliance obligation: a five-year storage plan that cut per-gigabyte monthly cost by 82%, a server consolidation that saved $1.13M and reduced 22 racks to seven, and IT service reliability held above 99% while the organization carried SOX compliance. Disaster recovery rested on offsite replication our people designed and built, moving data off site fast enough to support a 7.5 minute recovery point objective — at worst, seven and a half minutes of data lost. A recovery point that tight normally comes with dedicated replication appliances and the licensing to match. This one did not.