IT That Keeps Production Moving and Risk Under Control
Dallas–Fort Worth manufacturers partner with GXA to reduce downtime, safeguard operations, and maintain productivity across plants, offices, and shifts.
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Can Your IT Keep Pace with Your Plant and Protect What’s at Risk?
Manufacturing lives and dies by uptime, speed, and clean handoffs across shifts, sites, and systems. When networks drop or ERP slows, the impact is immediate. Costs show up in missed shipments, overtime, scrap, and reputational risk.
IT cannot just react. It has to keep production moving and throughput protected, hour by hour and shift by shift.
Why GXA for Manufacturing?
GXA helps discrete and process manufacturers stabilize today and scale tomorrow. We align IT to plant priorities—supporting throughput, protecting production data, and reducing downtime across every shift.
We plan and operate with the plant in mind:
- Optimize ERP, MES, and WMS performance across locations
- Secure plant-floor systems and protect access to sensitive equipment
- Support shift-based teams with reliable tools and consistent coverage
- Coordinate around changeovers, maintenance windows, and lead times
We design systems that scale without sacrificing speed, quality, or control.
Start a conversation about your plant IT priorities.Common Challenges We Solve:
Manufacturers depend on tightly integrated systems, from plant-floor devices to back-office platforms. But when those systems break down, the impact shows up fast. Here are the problems we see most often:
- Unstable plant networks interrupt machines, scanners, and HMIs
- Sluggish ERP, MES, or WMS slows planning, scheduling, or reporting
- Vendor or contractor remote access creates security risks
- Ransomware threats put recipes, CAD, and production data in danger
- Wi-Fi gaps disrupt handhelds and tablets used on the floor
- Weak backup strategies leave programs, historians, or quality data unprotected
GXA stabilizes your IT, keeps staff productive, and safeguards your operations from line to leadership.
Plant Network Stability
Keep machines, scanners, and shop-floor systems connected with reliable, segmented networks that stay up across every shift.
ERP, MES, & WMS Performance
Ensure core platforms run fast and stay synced so planning, scheduling, and production reporting happen without delays.
Vendor Access Control
Give contractors and equipment vendors secure, time-limited access with session tracking and clear audit trails.
OT Security & Ransomware Defense
Protect PLCs, HMIs, and operator stations with layered security that contains threats before they spread.
Engineering Data Protection
Safeguard CAD files, recipes, and programs with versioned backups and quick restore for changeovers and recovery.
Multi-Site Consistency
Apply the same security, monitoring, and patching standards across all facilities to reduce variation and simplify oversight.
Technology should increase throughput, not slow it down or get in the way. GXA builds and manages the systems that keep your lines moving, your data protected, and your teams focused on production.
We plan around maintenance windows, audit schedules, and shift changes to prevent surprises and protect output.
FAQs
Yes. We support leading platforms like Epicor, NetSuite, SAP Business One, and commonly used MES and WMS tools. Our team ensures that your systems are responsive, synchronized, and optimized to support seamless scheduling, production, and inventory management without delays.
GXA helps keep your entire operation—from planning to shipping—running with precision.
Because the cost of failure is higher. Plants depend on always-on systems, coordinated workflows across people and machines, and audit-ready controls.
When IT underperforms, you feel it in missed shipments, scrap, downtime, and lost customer trust. That’s why manufacturing IT must minimize risk, protect data, and maintain consistent performance across every shift and site.
We apply defense-in-depth security to both IT and OT environments. On the technical side, we segment networks, secure endpoints, and monitor PLCs, HMIs, and engineering workstations. We also back up CAD files, recipes, and production programs with version control and rapid recovery tools.
Our approach protects intellectual property, ensures fast recovery from incidents, and keeps your production team moving forward.
We give vendors the access they need and nothing more. GXA implements session-based remote access with audit trails, time restrictions, and secure authentication to support third-party maintenance without exposing plant systems.
Controlled access reduces the risk of unauthorized changes, improves traceability, and helps you pass customer and regulator audits with confidence.
We monitor your environment 24/7 and respond in real-time, whether the issue occurs during the first shift or the third. Our local team works within your production schedule, resolving problems fast and preventing minor issues from snowballing into downtime.
Your team stays focused on output. We stay focused on keeping you running.
Simple 3‑Step Getting Started
1. Assess
As part of our onboarding process, GXA performs a structured review of your plant and office IT systems. We evaluate network stability, ERP and MES performance, access controls, and data protection. You’ll get a clear view of what supports your production—and what introduces risk or delay.
2. Stabilize
We apply consistent standards to reduce downtime, segment networks, secure OT and IT environments, and optimize platform performance across shifts and sites.
3. Launch
GXA aligns IT with your production schedule and plant operations, not just your office calendar. That means planning during maintenance windows, supporting every shift, and ensuring systems remain reliable as orders move.
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