Production runs on infrastructure.
We keep the line moving.
In manufacturing, downtime is a production event — a line outage cascades into revenue loss within hours, and as OT and IT converge, security posture is a purchasing criterion long before it is an audit finding. What manufacturers buy from WUC today goes beyond break‑fix — managed IT infrastructure operated as an extension of the plant IT team, with the ERP and MES systems the floor runs on, and the historian and quality‑data estates that never stop growing, answered for by one accountable partner. Same multi‑vendor engineering depth. Sold by what the schedule depends on.
A vendor answers to a contract.
You answer for the line.
Break-fix maintenance answers one question: is the hardware healthy? Plant leadership carries different ones — will MES hold through the shift change, is the historian estate recoverable, and will it all survive the next acquisition’s mixed OEM stack? We hold those answers under two principles:
Exceptional Service
Continuous monitoring, proactive maintenance, rapid issue resolution, and expert guidance that keep your infrastructure estate secure, available, and optimized — an extension of your team, measured against outcomes you can see.
Strategic Engagement
Technology initiatives aligned with business objectives through ongoing planning, governance, and continuous improvement. A partner in the room when decisions get made — not a vendor on a ticket when things break.
Two estates every manufacturer answers for.
One partner who answers for both.
Every manufacturer's infrastructure conversation eventually reaches the same two estates. These are the systems our practice designs, operates, and stands behind — at full depth.
ERP & MES — the systems the plant floor runs on
Production scheduling, MES, quality, warehouse management — the systems the floor runs on demand low latency and continuous availability from every layer beneath them. We operate that full stack — compute engineered for shift‑change and period‑close load, Dell PowerMax and NetApp AFF beneath the transaction databases — with replication and recovery rehearsed rather than assumed, and OT/IT segmentation held as standing operations with an audit trail.
The plant data estate — historians, quality, and design data that never shrink
Plant data never stops growing: process historians, quality and traceability records, CAD and simulation estates that engineering mines for years. Dell PowerScale carries that growth with policy‑driven tiering; NetApp AFF serves the databases that keep it queryable — and we operate both sides, expanding capacity ahead of growth and holding traceability obligations as enforced configuration.
Representative architectures drawn from common manufacturing deployments — not descriptions of specific plant environments, which remain confidential. Operations align to NIST SP 800-82 guidance on OT security and CISA.
The economics plant controllers appreciate.
The manufacturing vertical runs on the same multi-vendor engineering depth that made WUC an OEM alternative — and the savings survive CFO scrutiny because they are structural, not promotional. Model your estate with the infrastructure savings calculator, or start from the pillars below:
Multi-vendor consolidation
Dell EMC, NetApp, HPE, Cisco, and IBM estates under one agreement, one SLA framework, one accountable team — 30–50% below combined OEM spend.
See how consolidation works → 02Refresh between shutdowns
Extend stable assets past EOSL, refresh when workload evidence says so, retire with documented sanitization — every decision landing in a planned shutdown window, not mid-run.
Explore lifecycle → 03SLAs tiered to production
Two-hour response for the systems the line stops without; next-business-day for the cold archive. You stop paying premium SLAs for historians nobody is querying.
Design your tiers → 04Proactive, not reactive
Predictive telemetry that catches the degrading component before it becomes a line stoppage — with baselines set at the hours your shifts actually run.
Explore performance insights →Four stages, no surprises.
- Assess. Full estate audit — every host, array, switch, and contract from plant floor to data center — mapped to the service it delivers and scored by production criticality and OT exposure.
- Consolidate. OEM contracts replaced in renewal order under one WUC agreement, SLAs re-tiered to production criticality, savings visible before the next budget review.
- Operate. 24/7 telemetry, proactive maintenance, and guaranteed-response engineering — the extension-of-your-team phase, measured monthly.
- Advise. Quarterly strategic reviews: capacity growth, compliance posture, refresh sequencing and cloud placement — the partner-in-the-room phase your roadmap runs on.
Ready for a partner who answers for uptime?
A 30-minute conversation surfaces the three biggest overspend and risk signals in your plant infrastructure contracts — usually without leaving the call.