Manufacturing IT Services
in Fond du Lac, WI
Proactive IT support built for the plant floor, OT/ICS security, compliance, and managed services from a Wisconsin team that works on production floors.
What we see on Fond du Lac production floors
Fond du Lac has one of the deeper industrial bases in eastern Wisconsin, spanning machinery, marine and recreational equipment, metal fabrication, plastics, and food processing, much of it clustered along the Highway 41 corridor at the south end of Lake Winnebago. Plants here are frequently part of larger manufacturing groups, which means corporate standards, ERP systems maintained elsewhere, and a local team responsible for keeping production running against a network they did not design. We also see a lot of seasonal demand swings in the recreational and agricultural equipment supply chains, so plants run flat-out for part of the year and cannot tolerate any planned downtime during that window. Any IT work has to be scheduled against the production calendar, not the IT calendar.
Problems We Solve for Fond du Lac Manufacturers
Three pressure points that keep plant managers up at night
Unplanned downtime that stops the line
Industry surveys put manufacturing downtime in the thousands of dollars per hour, and every plant we've worked in has its own number. Proactive 24/7 monitoring catches problems before they reach production, and Fond du Lac incidents get an under-15-minute initial response from our West Bend team.
Your 'IT guy' wears too many hats, or you have no dedicated IT staff at all
Get a full IT department at a fraction of the cost. We handle everything from helpdesk to network engineering so your people can focus on production.
A stopped line is the only downtime metric that matters
A stopped line is the only downtime metric that matters, and in a seasonal plant a lost day during peak is not recoverable later. So we plan the year backward from your busy season. Infrastructure work, switch replacements, segmentation cutovers, server refreshes, happens in the off-peak window with tested rollback. Going into peak, the plant is frozen except for security patching we can validate, spares are staged on-site for the components that fail, and we increase monitoring sensitivity on the systems that gate production. Underneath that we run the fundamentals: redundant connectivity, immutable and isolated backups of the ERP, quality data, and production configurations, machine images of the OEM boxes nobody can rebuild, and scheduled test restores that produce real measured recovery times per system. When corporate owns the ERP and you own the floor, we handle the seam between them, which is usually where outages actually live.
Deep Operational Technology Capabilities
We don't just manage office PCs. Our engineers are hands-on with the systems that run your Fond du Lac production floor.
SCADA & HMI Security
Hardening, patching, and monitoring for supervisory control and human-machine interface systems.
PLC & DCS Protection
Security policies for programmable logic controllers and distributed control systems without disrupting automation.
Purdue Model Segmentation
Network architecture that isolates OT from IT, preventing lateral movement from corporate to production systems.
Protocol-Aware Firewalls
Deep packet inspection for Modbus TCP/IP, EtherNet/IP, OPC-UA, and other industrial protocols.
MES/ERP Integration Security
Secure data flows between manufacturing execution systems, ERP platforms, and the corporate network.
Air-Gapped Backup Strategies
Immutable, isolated backups for critical production configurations and CNC programs.
Your 3-Step Path to Reliable IT
A proven process that gets Fond du Lac manufacturers from reactive firefighting to proactive protection
Assess
We audit your Fond du Lac plant floor IT, networks, endpoints, OT systems, backups, and compliance gaps. You get a prioritized roadmap within one week.
Protect
We segment your OT and IT networks, deploy endpoint security, harden backups, and close compliance gaps, all without disrupting production.
Support
Ongoing managed services with defined response-time commitments in your service agreement. Proactive monitoring, patch management, and a direct line to engineers who understand manufacturing.
What's at Stake
With the Right IT Partner
- Predictable monthly IT costs, no surprise bills
- Reduced unplanned downtime through proactive monitoring and preventive maintenance
- Compliance confidence for CMMC, NIST, and ITAR audits
- Secure, segmented OT networks that protect connected equipment
- A responsive IT partner ~35 min away from your Fond du Lac facility
Without Action
- Production stoppages from aging, unmonitored infrastructure
- Ransomware risk to CNC machines, PLCs, and connected equipment
- Failed compliance audits that cost you government contracts
- Reactive break-fix costs that blow up your budget quarter after quarter
Frequently Asked Questions
Our plant is part of a national group. Do you work under corporate IT?
Routinely. Corporate keeps ownership of the ERP, identity, and standards, and we take the plant floor: local network and OT, on-site response, backup verification for local systems, and the integration points between corporate systems and production. We work to their standards and document what we do.
We cannot take downtime during our busy season. How do you handle that?
We build the project calendar around your peak. Infrastructure changes land in the off-peak window, the plant goes into a change freeze for the busy season with only validated security patching, and spares are staged on-site so a hardware failure is a swap instead of a wait.
Is Fond du Lac within your normal service area?
Yes. Fond du Lac is roughly 35 minutes north of our West Bend office on Highway 45, and we support manufacturers throughout Fond du Lac County with scheduled on-site visits plus 24/7 remote monitoring and response.
Do you provide on-site manufacturing IT support in Fond du Lac?
Yes. We dispatch from our West Bend office at 419 S. Main St., ~35 min away from Fond du Lac, and we schedule on-site plant floor visits alongside remote support.
Do you support OT systems like SCADA, HMIs, and PLCs?
Yes. Our engineers understand the unique requirements of operational technology. We design network segmentation and security policies that protect OT systems without interfering with production processes.
What compliance frameworks do you support for manufacturers?
We support CMMC, NIST 800-171, ITAR, and other frameworks required by defense and government manufacturing contracts. We build the documentation and technical controls you need to pass audits.
Can you work around our production schedules?
Absolutely. We schedule maintenance windows, updates, and deployments around your shifts. Critical changes happen during planned downtime, never during peak production.
What size manufacturers in Fond du Lac do you work with?
We serve shops from 10 employees up to midsized manufacturers with 500+ employees. Our service scales with your operation, whether you have one location or multiple facilities.
How do you protect connected production equipment from cyber threats?
We implement Purdue Model network segmentation to isolate OT from IT systems, deploy protocol-aware firewalls for industrial traffic, and maintain air-gapped backups for CNC programs and production configurations. This prevents ransomware from reaching the shop floor.
Do we need to sign a long-term contract?
Yes, and that is deliberate. Our standard managed IT agreement runs 36 months because securing a production environment is a multi-month engineering project, not a monthly subscription. The term is what lets us document, segment, and harden your plant properly instead of doing the cheap version and hoping. Emergency and one-time project work carries no commitment.
Ready to Protect Your Fond du Lac Production Floor?
Book a paid plant floor IT assessment. We'll walk your facility, identify risks, and deliver a prioritized action plan you keep either way.