Industry solution
IT for machinery and plant engineering – design, plant interconnect and production without downtime.
Midsize machine builders need IT that handles CAD load, connects plants and protects production data reliably. That is exactly what we deliver.
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Typical problems
What we hear again and again in this industry
Four points that surface in almost every discovery workshop – and that we tackle concretely.
Engineering slows production down
CAD data gets shuffled between engineering, sales and production – via email, network shares, cloud tools. Nobody knows which version is current.
Distributed plants, central data – but slow
Headquarters, plants and customer sites all touch central ERP and PLM systems. Without proper site interconnect every save becomes a waiting game.
Machine downtime costs five figures per hour
When IT problems halt manufacturing – license server, network or database – recovery has to happen in hours, not days.
Compliance and cyber pressure keep growing
NIS2, supplier audits from key accounts, cyber insurance with concrete security baselines – the requirements double, the team does not.
IT requirements
What your industry expects from IT
Software, infrastructure and compliance – the three fields that must fit together.
Software stack
- CAD/PLM (Solidworks, NX, CATIA, Inventor, AutoCAD) with license servers and floating licenses
- ERP (SAP, ProAlpha, ABAS, Sage) with cross-site data
- MES / production control with real-time machine connectivity
- CAM, simulation, FEM – compute-heavy workloads, often GPU-bound
Infrastructure
- Site interconnect with guaranteed bandwidth and low latency
- Backup strategy with quarterly recovery test – not just on paper
- Endpoint security incl. EDR on engineering workstations
- Network segmentation office ↔ production (OT) ↔ machines (shopfloor)
Compliance & audit
- TISAX preparation for automotive suppliers
- NIS2 implementation for companies above 50 FTE
- Supplier audits from OEMs (often VDA, ISO 27001 substance)
- Cyber insurance baseline requirements
Matching services
How we deliver this for you
Out of our nine service building blocks, the four that are especially relevant for this industry.
Site interconnect
Connect headquarters, plants and remote sites via secure layer-3 networking – with redundancy per site.
Cloud infrastructure
CAD/ERP/PLM workloads in our German data centres – data sovereignty and performance, no hyperscaler lock-in.
Backup & data protection
Immutable backups with tested recovery – so a ransomware incident does not become an existential question.
IT monitoring & security
24/7 monitoring of office IT and OT, EDR on endpoints, NIS2-ready reporting.
Anonymised industry case
Machinery manufacturer, Lower Main – 180 FTE, 2 plants, 1 sales office
Profile
Special-purpose machinery manufacturer with in-house engineering team (15 CAD seats), central ERP and production control across two plants.
Starting point
Outdated VPN-based site interconnect, backup only local per site, unclear recovery process. Engineering complained about daily 30-second save delays, management got no consolidated reports.
Our solution
Phased migration to layer-3 site interconnect with dual-carrier uplink per plant, CAD workloads moved to our Frankfurt DC, central backup with object lock and monthly automated restore tests, EDR plus 24/7 NOC tie-in.
Outcome
- < 2 sec file save time at the CAD seat (previously 30+ sec)
- 4 hour RTO for the full ERP system (proven in the semi-annual drill)
- 99.87 % site availability over 12 months – not a single unplanned outage
- TISAX label level 2 reached within 6 months – without external consulting budget
Frequently asked from this industry
What customers from Machinery ask us up front
Yes. We run CAD seats on workstation hardware, in virtual environments (AVD, Citrix with GPU) or in our cloud setup. The right answer depends on your application, file size and site distribution.
Next step
Let's talk about your industry's requirements.
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