IT Support for Industrial and Manufacturing Organizations

As your industrial or manufacturing organization grows, it’s time to update your infrastructure to support more complex multi-tier distribution and partner-based selling strategies.

Although legacy systems meet highly specific information needs, it’s important to integrate those systems with the latest applications for the purpose of improving production quality, workflow efficiency, and more. So what’s the best way to bring your infrastructure into the future to meet fast-changing customer demands? Let’s find out.

How to Bring Your Industrial or Manufacturing Organization Into the Future to Support New Business Growth

One pillar of modern industrial and manufacturing organizations over twenty-five employees is the power of technology. However, most industrial and manufacturing operations still use legacy systems and face a number of tech challenges – hampering their effectiveness in production and innovation — a huge cost for the organization, and ultimately, their customers.

This inefficiency at the technological level diminishes capacity, efficiency, and competitiveness – hindering growth and performance in a huge way. 360 Smart Networks enables enterprise-level industrial and manufacturing firms to maximize their IT ROI by using technology to aid in:

• Minimizing production time
• Enhancing collaboration
• Reducing errors
• Planning proactively for downtime/ reduced disruptions
• Improving efficiency
• Minimizing operational costs
• Increasing customer satisfaction
• Improving communications and collaboration

We’re familiar with many legacy systems, as well as the latest applications – giving us the knowledge and expertise to help you bring your organization into the future to support new business growth. An integrated, reliable infrastructure will let you improve:

• Quoting accuracy
• New product introductions
• Order cycle times
• Compliance reporting
• Product quality
• And much more

What Industrial or Manufacturing Sectors Does 360 Smart Networks Currently Serve?

• International Manufacturing
• Distribution
• Warehousing
• Mining Support
• Wholesalers
• Environmental Planning

If you fall into one of the sectors above and you’re ready to embrace technology in a strategic way, contact us at (770) 518-7087 or sales@360smartnet.com now.

The firms that fall under the umbrellas of manufacturing and industrial are nearly endless. However, many of the IT assets leveraged by industrial and manufacturing operations are the same or similar from organization to organization.

• ERP Systems
• 3D Printing
• GIS Systems
• Barcoding Systems
• Fleet Management
• Shipping Systems
• CAD/CAM Systems

Five Technology Trends in Industrial and Manufacturing Operations that 360 Smart Networks is Harnessing for Our Clients

Security is no longer optional. As data privacy laws evolve and levy harsher fines, it’s up to your organization to take the steps necessary to protect your shareholders’ investment and your customers’ privacy. To help our clients stay compliant with industry standards and legislative mandates, we care for the IT side of compliance to, among others, the following standards:

1. Intelligent Manufacturing

2. The Internet of Things (IoT)

3. Workforce Cybersecurity Awareness Training

4. Predictive Analytics

5. Artificial Intelligence

360 Smart Networks assists your organization by providing the multi-component cybersecurity, executive IT consulting, and asset management strategies needed to keep pace with the complexities of a large-scale manufacturing or industrial operation.

Comprehensive IT Management and Support Services

360 Smart Networks clearly recognizes the unique nature of manufacturing and industrial firms and helps you overcome IT challenges within processes by delivering:

• Core Infrastructure Support
• Firewall Management
• Network Management
• IT Project Management
• Network Security
• Senior IT Leadership

Our dedicated IT professionals help enterprise-level firms drive continuous improvement by collaborating with your internal leadership to address challenges and offering real-world solutions.

Cybersecurity Equipped to Protect Complex Operations

Our security-first approach to enterprise-level cybersecurity is summed up in our integrated suite of services that we call TekSurance. TekSurance is based on our philosophy of protection, detection, and mitigation. Our TekSurance offering can be most easily understood through it’s three individual components:

• Securance: designing, and managing a multi-layered, integrated cybersecurity solution that combines defensive walls of protection, continuous monitoring for threat detection, and strategic countermeasures.
• Maintenance and Support: leveraging our friendly and experienced team of IT specialists to resolve troubleshooting requests and answer your employees day-to-day technology questions.
• CloudSurance: backing up and securing data and workflow within the cloud so that an organization can continue to operate when impacted by a negative criminal, natural, or human error circumstance that limits local access to data and internal processes. CloudSurance works on Windows servers, Windows workstations, VMWare, ESXi, Hyper-V, Exchange, SQL, and Linux.

Let’s bring your organization into the future to support new business growth.Call (770) 518-7087 or email us at sales@360smartnet.com to get started.