Connecting the factory floor to the enterprise.
IT services for manufacturing and ERP for manufacturing businesses — plants, supply chains and back-office systems run to takt time, not IT calendars. Archonova engineers the software, integration and infrastructure that keep the line moving.
The landscape
Where manufacturing teams get stuck.
Four recurring pressure points we design around when building for this sector.
OT/IT Convergence
PLCs, SCADA and MES speak a different language than ERP and cloud analytics. Bridging them safely — without opening the plant to enterprise-network risk — is a design problem, not a product purchase.
Legacy Equipment Integration
Machines with 20-year lifespans still run production. Getting telemetry, alarms and setpoints off them takes protocol gateways, edge compute and careful change control.
Supply Chain Visibility
Inbound materials, WIP and outbound logistics rarely live in one system of record. Real visibility means integrating suppliers, warehouses and carriers into a single operational view.
Predictive Maintenance
Unplanned downtime is the biggest hidden cost on the floor. Sensor data, historians and ML models turn maintenance from reactive to scheduled — when the data pipeline is engineered to be trustworthy.
Solutions for manufacturing
How the practice maps to your work.
Five capability layers — Advisory, Operate, Build, Infrastructure, Security — applied to the way manufacturing actually runs.
Layer
Advisory
We build the OT/IT convergence roadmap alongside plant and corporate leadership, then upskill shop-floor engineers and enterprise IT so a shared operating model actually holds after the consultants leave.
Layer
Operate
OEM software — CAD, PLM, SCADA, MES — gets consolidated under one licensing view, managed operations span both plant networks and corporate IT, and DevOps pipelines are tuned to the low-frequency, high-consequence release cadence a live line demands.
Layer
Build
We build the MES-to-ERP and SCADA-to-cloud bridges that give the enterprise real production data, custom shop-floor apps for operators and supervisors, and predictive-maintenance models grounded in historian data — not vendor slideware.
Layer
Infrastructure
Edge compute sits close to the line so production keeps running when the WAN doesn't, on-prem historians hold the high-frequency data, and hybrid cloud carries the analytics workloads that don't need to be on-site.
Layer
Security
OT networks are segmented from IT with hardened boundaries, legacy PLC segments are protected without touching the controllers themselves, and enterprise identity is enforced everywhere a corporate user reaches into the plant.
How we'd approach this
For a multi-plant manufacturer.
For a multi-plant manufacturer with mixed-vintage equipment, this typically starts with a plant-by-plant OT audit — cataloguing PLCs, protocols, network topology and the actual data already flowing off each line. From there we'd stand up an edge-and-historian layer at one pilot plant, prove out the MES-to-ERP bridge and a first predictive-maintenance model on one asset class, then roll the pattern site by site with proper OT/IT segmentation baked in. No line is disrupted for a rollout, and every plant keeps producing if the corporate WAN drops.
Building in manufacturing?
Bring us the constraints — regulation, uptime, legacy, scale — and we'll architect the system around them. Start with a scoping call.