Manufacturing

Keep the Line Running When Systems Fail

When systems go down, production stops, orders slip and customers wait. 010 helps manufacturers understand and validate how they would recover, from the office systems to the plant floor.

What stops first

ERPOrders, inventory and purchasingProduction planningSchedules and work ordersShared and engineering filesDrawings, production files and shared foldersShippingPicking, labels and carrier systemsNetwork and loginsThe links between the office and the plant floor

Production impact

Downtime Is Measured in Lost Production

Every hour a line is down has a cost: missed shipments, idle staff and customer commitments at risk. Recovery has to follow the order production needs, not the order the IT team gets to things.

  • Shipments and delivery dates
  • Lines and staff standing idle
  • Orders and inventory you can’t see
  • Commitments to customers and suppliers

Recovery priorities

What Manufacturers Need from Recovery

Recovery order

Know which systems come back first so the line restarts as soon as possible.

Office and plant floor together

Plan recovery across IT and plant-floor systems, not one without the other.

Tested restores

Check that backups of critical systems actually restore, before you need them.

Evidence for leadership and insurers

Show what was tested, what worked and what still needs fixing.

Common challenges

What Makes Recovery Harder for Manufacturers

Older systems

Equipment and software that can’t simply be reinstalled.

Several sites

Plants and warehouses that depend on each other.

Suppliers and customers

Partners waiting on your orders and shipments.

Small IT teams

Few people covering a lot of systems.

Questions

Manufacturing FAQ

Can you recover plant-floor systems, or only IT?

We plan recovery across office and plant-floor systems. For machines and production equipment, we assess what each system needs to recover and coordinate with your equipment and software vendors. How it is protected and recovered depends on the equipment and the scope we agree with you.

What size of manufacturer do you work with?

Both large manufacturers with many facilities and small and mid-sized businesses with one to three sites. That is a common profile, not a limit on who we work with.

What does recovery look like in practice?

Illustrative example: after a ransomware attack, the first priority is restoring the ERP, shared production files and network access needed to resume shipping. Other systems follow in the order production needs them.

We run more than one site. Can you cover all of them?

Scope is agreed with you and covers the sites and systems that matter most.

Can this help with insurance questions?

It can support those conversations with evidence. It does not guarantee coverage. See Cyber Insurance Readiness.