IT, security, and CMMC readiness for manufacturers.
SignalOne runs technology for Metro Detroit shops and suppliers, front office to floor. Support, security, automation, and AI under one plan, with a compliance practice that keeps primes and auditors answered. Most of it starts with a 30-minute conversation.
The stakes
Why a supplier's technology is a different problem than office IT.
When the line stops, the cost isn't an IT number. It's missed shipments, air freight, and a scorecard your customer remembers at the next quote.
And downtime is the older risk. Defense and automotive primes now flow CMMC 2.0 down the supply chain. The requirement arrives in the contract, not in a meeting.
A supplier that can't show compliance loses the work quietly, at resourcing time. Preparing early costs less than winning it back.
What we handle
The whole operation, run as one system. Sorted the way a traveler sorts a job.
CMMC 2.0 readiness
NIST SP 800-171 gap assessment, System Security Plan, POA&M, and your SPRS score, built and kept current. Certification comes from independent assessors; we get you ready and stand behind the evidence.
Plant-floor & OT security
Machines, PLCs, and controllers segmented from the office network, so a phishing click at a front desk can't stop a spindle in back.
ERP, MES & EDI
The systems that release orders, print travelers, and answer EDI stay up. Patching happens in maintenance windows, never mid-shift.
Ransomware & recovery
Tested backups, offline copies, and a rehearsed restore. Whether an incident costs hours or weeks gets decided long before the bad day.
Cyber-insurance renewals
MFA (a second login step), endpoint detection, and tested backups: implemented, documented, and attested. Renewals stop being a scramble.
AI & automation, on the floor
Quoting from drawings, scheduling, and the paperwork between systems: automated where it earns its keep, with a policy that survives a customer audit.
How it starts
No rip-and-replace. Production never pauses for us.
A 30-minute conversation
Owner or plant manager, a senior person from our side, no deck. Bring the flow-down letter if one landed.
A walk of the floor
We map office and plant networks while your current provider stays in place, then put findings and a transition plan in writing. Nobody is tipped off.
A sequenced first month
Access, inventory, monitoring, and the fixes that stop the repeat interruptions, scheduled around shifts. How We Work walks the first thirty days, day by day.
Read what level it demands, then map the gap. Level 2 means the 110 controls of NIST 800-171: a System Security Plan, a POA&M, and a score in SPRS. We run that readiness end to end, the way we've prepared companies for SOC 2 Type 2 and PCI. The certificate itself comes from an independent assessor (a C3PAO); we get you ready for that audit and sit with you through it.
Yes. Patching and changes happen in your maintenance windows, cutovers are rehearsed, and nothing reboots mid-shift. We learn the shift calendar before we touch anything.
No. Old controllers are a fact of manufacturing. We isolate them: segmented networks, controlled access, monitored traffic. The machine keeps making parts. It stops being a doorway.
Client names stay confidential, the same way yours would. The engagement record includes a precision manufacturer's story, in their own numbers. References are available on request, in a direct conversation.
Most of this starts with a 30-minute conversation.
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