Industries
The line can't wait
for a password reset.
Plant floors run machines installed when Windows XP was new, next to an ERP older than some of your staff. We keep both running, connect them safely, and move you to something better when you're ready.
Foothills Digital—Sentrello Premier Partner
- AWS
- Azure
- Google Cloud
- DigitalOcean
- On-premises Linux
- On-premises Windows
Every one of our people holds active certifications on the platforms they work on.
Sentrello is our only partnership. On the clouds, it's our people who hold the certifications. We don't claim a partner tier, and we'll keep saying so until that changes.
Sound familiar?
Old machines, new threats
The PC that runs the press hasn't been patched since it was installed. It can't be, either, not without the vendor.
- A controller PC on the floor runs an operating system its vendor stopped supporting years ago.
- Production numbers live in spreadsheets somebody emails to the office at the end of each shift.
- The ERP was customized in 2009 by a contractor nobody can reach, and the thought of upgrading it frightens everyone.
- Office and plant share one flat network, so a phishing click in accounts can reach the line.
- Downtime is counted in lost units per hour, and nobody's sure how long a restore would take.
What fits
What we'd look at first on a plant floor
Managed Firewalls & Network Security
The plant network split off from the office, so machines that can't be patched can't be reached either.
Read moreApplication Migration & Management
Off the ERP that's been customized into a corner, with the data moved and checked line by line.
Read moreApplication Development
Shift data captured at the machine and visible in the office within the hour, not in a spreadsheet at six.
Read moreVulnerability Management
A list of every device on the floor, what it runs, and which of its weaknesses matter to production.
Read moreData Backup & Disaster Recovery (BDR)
Recovery tested against the number you actually care about: hours until the line runs again.
Read moreAI Agent & Workflow Automation
Agents that turn purchase orders and supplier emails into ERP entries, so procurement stops re-keying them.
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By trade
Who we work with in manufacturing
Food Manufacturing
IT, OT security and software for food manufacturers: lot traceability, allergen changeovers, temperature logs and audit-ready records.
Beverage Manufacturing
Software, IT and security for breweries, distilleries and bottlers: tank and barrel records, excise reports, kegs and distributor orders.
Textile & Textile Product Mills
IT, OT security and software for textile mills: roll and dye-lot tracking, loom data, quality records, and old machines kept safe.
Apparel Manufacturing
Software, IT and security for apparel makers: tech packs, sample rounds, size grading, factory communication and design files protected.
Wood Product Manufacturing
IT, OT security and software for wood product makers: CNC file handling, cut lists, yield tracking, kiln data and shop-floor PCs.
Metal Manufacturing
IT, OT security and software for metal manufacturers: heat-number traceability, mill certs, CNC programs, quality records and plant networks.
Paper Manufacturing
IT, OT security and software for paper mills and converters: control-system security, reel tracking, grade changes and downtime data.
Chemical Manufacturing
Software, IT and security for chemical manufacturers: SDS libraries, batch traceability, formula protection and process control security.
Machinery Manufacturing
Software, IT and security for machinery makers: engineering changes, bills of materials, field service records and CAD data protected.
Computer Manufacturing
Software, IT and security for computer and electronics makers: component traceability, firmware builds, test data and supply-chain security.
Electrical Equipment, Appliance & Component Manufacturing
IT, OT security and software for electrical and appliance makers: test records, listing paperwork, serial tracking and plant networks.
Furniture Manufacturing
Software and IT for furniture makers: configurable orders, dealer portals, cut lists, CNC files and production tracking.
Illustrative work
What a job here can look like
Examples of the kind of work we do, written to show its shape. They are not client engagements.
- Illustrative example
A commercial bakery's ransomware morning, contained to one laptop
A fake invoice opened in purchasing started encrypting files at 6:40 on a Tuesday. Managed detection cut the laptop off in four minutes, and the mixers never stopped.
- Illustrative example
Twenty-six years of job routings, moved off a server nobody could replace
A metal job shop ran on a late-nineties ERP that lived in a beige tower under a desk. We rebuilt it as a web app that quotes exactly the way the old one did.
- Illustrative example
An apparel factory asked where AI would pay. The list was shorter than it expected
After four vendor demos in a month, the owner of a cut-and-sew factory wanted a straight answer. Fourteen ideas went in, two came out, and one of those needed no AI at all.
Walk us through one shift
What runs the line, what records it, and what talks to the office.
We'll map where it's exposed and what we'd change first. Every quote is written for your plant.
- What we arePlan, create, launch, maintain
- What we areSentrello Premier Partner
- What we areEvery quote written for you