IT That Keeps The Line Moving And Your Designs Locked Down
Most Dallas-Fort Worth manufacturers do not staff a dedicated IT department, so the operations manager, plant controller, or the one engineer who happens to understand networking ends up absorbing the work between production schedules, customer audits, and whatever the ERP vendor broke this week. We bring the industrial-grade tooling, documented workflows, and local technicians your plant needs without adding headcount. The line keeps moving, CAD files and quote data stay out of a competitor's hands, and your operators stop losing half a shift to a dropped wireless scanner or a Teams call that will not connect between the front office and the second building.
What We Deliver For Your Plant
Keep production systems and ERP running through every shift, not just business hours.
Get a Fort Worth technician on the line within sixty seconds, not a call center.
Protect CAD files, bills of material, and customer drawings from theft and misuse.
Hand off tickets so operations and engineering stay focused on parts, not passwords.
Tie every plant, warehouse, and remote office onto one reliable, monitored network.
Configure Microsoft 365 so front office and shop floor collaborate without friction.
Replace a patchwork of one-off vendors with one accountable partner.
“Corptek has taken care of our IT needs for many years. They are knowledgeable, professional and courteous. The techs are always patient with our level of or lack of techie knowledge and have solved many computer issues from the very simple to the most complicated. We have never been disappointed.”
MONICA CAPUANO
Texas
“Corptek has taken care of our IT needs for over 12yrs. They are always easy to work with and professional. They have solved many computer issues from the very simple to the most complicated. We have never been disappointed.”
Patty Reid
Texas
“Jason and his team have been great to work with! We utilized their services for an email migration from one platform/account to a new one, and it could not have gone smoother. Jason was always available and accessible to answer all questions throughout the process. I still reach out to him from time to time for ongoing support, and he continues to be a huge help. 5/5 stars for sure!”
Patrick Beachner
Texas
How We Support Manufacturers
Manufacturing needs IT that understands shift work, the cost of a stopped line, and how quickly a stolen drawing becomes a competitor's next quote. Our approach holds four lines: uptime that matches production hours, hands-on human response, proprietary data protected at every layer, and networks shaped to the way a real plant actually runs.
Production-Hours Uptime
Orders ship, ERP posts, and the line keeps running only when your tech is dependable. We keep the systems your plant depends on (ERP, MES, quality tracking, barcode and scanner networks) steady through every shift your customers expect you to run.
Direct Plant-Floor Response
A technician picks up inside sixty seconds, every time, and already knows your ERP, your CAD environment, and which scanner or printer stops the line if it goes down. No ticket-queue waiting while a shift stands idle.
Proprietary-Data Protection
Drawings, bills of material, and customer PII are not nice-to-haves. Every layer (email, remote access, endpoints, mobile, backups) ships locked down by default, so a single miss never turns a drawing leak or a shop-floor laptop loss into a customer incident.
Shaped By How You Produce
Our configurations match how your floor actually runs, not how generic templates assume. Shift-aware access, machine-safe patching windows, and remote that works from a foreman's laptop on the line all match the rhythm of a real manufacturing operation.
A Single Point Of Failure Stops The Whole Line
A failed switch in the plant, a ransomware payload in an engineer's inbox, or a wireless dead zone at the shipping dock is all it takes. Inside a manufacturer those small lapses compound into idle operators, late shipments, upset customers, and the kind of Monday-morning conversation with a plant manager nobody wants to start a week with. Most manufacturers rely on someone internal to catch it (an operations manager who knows the systems, a controller stretched thin, or an owner who glances at IT between customer visits) and none of them have time to run a modern infrastructure program between production meetings. We step into that gap with a team, a toolset, and accountability, so the plant stops hoping the network holds and starts knowing.
We Know Manufacturing IT
We meet the plant where it actually is today, a twenty-person machine shop with one office and one bay, or a multi-site operation running three shifts across several buildings, and shape the service to how your production and engineering actually flow. No enterprise overhead pretending you are a Fortune 500 plant, no break-fix chaos masquerading as a managed service. When you add a cell, open a second building, or stand up a new ERP, the same group handles the transition without rewriting the contract or parachuting in a consultant. The shop grows, the IT grows with it, and operators keep their attention on parts instead of passwords.
Managed IT Services
A Full IT Department Sized To A Shop Floor
Most manufacturers juggle a break-fix vendor, an operations manager who inherited the server passwords, and whichever engineer happens to understand networking, and the cracks show the first time end-of-month invoicing runs long. We replace that patchwork with a single managed service covering tickets, monitoring, patching, backups, ERP support, and Microsoft 365 management, billed per user per month, so the plant finally has one IT number that does not surprise the owner at the annual review.
Flat per-user pricing that stays steady as cells, shifts, and buildings are added.
One accountable team covering tickets, patches, backups, and onboarding.
Proactive maintenance so month-end posting and shipping cutoffs run on time.
Cybersecurity Servicese
Proprietary-Data-Grade Protection For Every Drawing You Touch
Manufacturers are a rising target for ransomware and industrial espionage, and for good reason. A successful payload inside your plant shuts the line down, and a stolen drawing ends up in a competitor's RFQ before anyone notices. Our cybersecurity service stacks email authentication, advanced phishing defense, endpoint detection and response, multi-factor on engineering and front-office access, dark-web monitoring for plant credentials, and quarterly simulated attacks on operators and office staff, so the drawings, part programs, and customer data on your network stay yours.
Email authentication and advanced phishing filters tuned for vendor-invoice fraud.
Endpoint detection and response on every workstation, engineering seat, and server.
Quarterly phishing simulations and shop-floor training tied to real manufacturing attacks.
Network Design & Infrastructure
One Network Across Every Plant, Warehouse, And Office
A manufacturer's network has to do more than a regular office network: it carries barcode scanners, wireless tablets on the floor, CNC file transfers, ERP traffic, VoIP phones, security cameras, and front-office email on the same backbone without interfering with any of them. We design and deliver that backbone: business-grade switching and wireless sized to the square footage, segmented VLANs that keep shop-floor traffic separated from office traffic, and monitored site-to-site links that tie every building together.
Business-grade wireless sized to full plant coverage, not just the office.
VLAN segmentation that separates shop-floor, office, and guest traffic cleanly.
Monitored site-to-site connectivity between plant, warehouse, and office locations.
Why Manufacturers Stay With Us
Dallas-Fort Worth has no shortage of IT companies chasing manufacturing logos. We have been at this for two decades because we quietly deliver the work that matters when the ERP crashes on shipping day, a scanner fleet drops off the wireless, or an engineer's CAD seat dies thirty minutes before a customer review.
Fluent In Shop-Floor Tech Stacks
Our technicians know their way around the systems manufacturers actually run on, such as ERP and MES platforms, CAD environments, barcode and scanner networks, quality-tracking tools, and the way they all have to talk to each other. No one learns your plant on the clock during a production crisis.
Plant-Floor Response
When a supervisor calls because the wireless dropped in the shipping bay, the reply is not a ticket number. A real technician picks up, owns the problem, and stays with it until the scanners are back on the network and the shift keeps moving.
Drawing-Theft Hardened By Default
Email authentication, device trust, conditional access on engineering seats, and dark-web credential monitoring come standard, not as extras added later. The controls that stop a stolen laptop from becoming a competitor's next quote run by default instead of waiting on someone to turn them on.
Transparent Plant-Wide Pricing
Your IT line on the plant's P&L stays flat and easy to defend. Managed service sits on a simple per-user, per-location figure, and the typical surprises (after-hours outages, emergency hardware swaps, ERP migration weekends) stay inside the same monthly number.
FAQs About Our IT Support For Manufacturers
How do you keep our production LINE running when it breaks?
Uptime is built in from the network up: redundant business-grade switching, monitored wireless, offsite backups, and after-hours coverage that matches production hours, not business hours. A real technician answers inside sixty seconds, remote tools hit the plant in under a minute, and the written incident plan tells your operations manager exactly who calls whom while the line is down. Most issues are contained before the next shift clocks in.
How do you protect our drawings, part programs, and customer data?
Proprietary data protection is layered, not single-point. Engineering seats run endpoint detection and response, file shares are access-controlled by role and shift, email authentication blocks vendor impersonation, and encrypted off-site backups refresh continuously so a ransomware hit never forces a ransom decision. Dark-web credential monitoring flags stolen logins tied to your domain before they are used, and quarterly training keeps shop-floor and office staff ahead of the phishing angles aimed at manufacturers.
Can you connect our plant, warehouse, and office on ONE network?
Yes: multi-location networking is a core part of the service. We design and deliver monitored site-to-site links, segmented VLANs that keep shop-floor traffic separated from office traffic, and business-grade wireless sized to cover every bay, dock, and mezzanine, not just the front office. The result is one network your operators, engineers, and front-office staff all share, with traffic shaped so ERP, scanners, cameras, and phones all work without stepping on each other.
How do you support our ERP, CAD, and shop-floor applications?
We keep ERP, CAD, quality-tracking, and shop-floor tools running day to day, managing the servers, user access, patching windows, and vendor handoffs so your operations team stops chasing the ERP vendor every time something breaks. When the firm adds a module, opens a second building, or migrates to a new ERP, our team runs the project end to end alongside the vendor so engineering and production stay productive through the transition.
Headquarters
733 U.S. 287 Frontage
Rd Suite 401
Mansfield, TX 76063
