Plant-floor segmentation, industrial wireless, and continuity design for lines that can’t stop. We design it, then hand it back to your team.
Where we fit
Plant networks grow the way plants grow: a line at a time, a cell at a time, usually inside a shutdown window that ended twenty minutes ago. Somewhere along the way the plant floor, which is operational technology (OT), ended up on the same wire as corporate information technology (IT). Nobody made that decision on purpose.
That convergence is the engagement. Answering it properly means understanding both sides of the boundary: what the process tolerates, and what the network has to guarantee. A control system and an office network want opposite things from the same equipment.
We map what is actually there, design the separation, document it, and hand it back to your team.
The engagement
A programmable logic controller (PLC) sharing a broadcast domain with an email server is a design decision nobody made on purpose. We map what is actually there and write the segmentation plan for it: virtual LANs (VLANs), routing, and the conduits between the two halves. Multi-site plants included.
Metal, racking that gets reconfigured every quarter, forklift-mounted scanners living at the edge of coverage. Predictive modelling against the building first, then an on-site validation survey with the readings attached. Warehouse wireless is a physics problem before it is a hardware one.
A plant’s tolerance for lost data is nothing like an office’s. Continuity and DR design starts from the recovery point the process allows, not the one the software defaults to.
The machine outlived three OS versions and the vendor will not certify an update. It still has to be connected, and it still has to be defended. That is an architecture question.
Why independent matters
Vendor-neutral by design. We are not tied to one vendor’s stack, so the design starts from what the site actually needs. If the design in front of you is already sound, we’ll say so and go home.
Work is attributable to IZT TECH and never white-labelled. That matters here. The deliverable usually gets read by somebody else: a client, a board, an auditor. An anonymous document carries no more weight than the opinion of whoever is holding it.
Where we hand off
If the real problem is manufacturing execution system (MES) or enterprise resource planning (ERP) integration, or software that has to be written rather than designed, that belongs to IZT APPS. If it is phones or telecom, that is IZT CLOUD. IZT TECH advises, IZT CLOUD provides, and either way we will point you there rather than stretch. Naming that boundary in writing is part of how we scope every engagement. If the group also runs dealer or service sites, our automotive page covers the same segmentation problem across stores.
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Tell us the decision you’re trying to make. We’ll tell you whether it’s an engagement, a referral to one of our sister divisions, or something you don’t need us for.
We’re here for you, so you can focus on what matters.
