Build a Smarter, More Resilient Manufacturing Environment
AI and smart manufacturing technologies are creating opportunities for efficiency and innovation, but they also introduce new challenges across security, infrastructure, uptime, and operations.
AI and Modern Manufacturing IT
Manufacturers are making technology decisions today that will shape how their plants operate for years to come.
AI is rapidly reshaping manufacturing, with organizations investing in new capabilities to improve efficiency, resilience, and competitive advantage.
From agentic AI to physical AI, emerging technologies can help manufacturers automate processes, improve predictive maintenance, optimize resources, and enable more intelligent decision-making across plant operations.
80%
Percent of executives at large US manufacturers who plan to put 20% or more of their improvement budget into smart manufacturing initiatives.
$1.2M
Median ransom demand in a mid-market manufacturing attack. Median paid: $1M.
Current Challenges in Smart Manufacturing
Modern manufacturing environments often combine decades-old infrastructure with connected devices, cloud platforms, automation, and AI. That convergence creates new opportunities, but also new operational and security risks.
Downtime is a Critical Concern
Whether caused by technology or machinery, downtime can mean lost production, increased labor costs, delayed orders, and rushed recovery efforts. Technologies such as AI, predictive analytics, and connected IoT systems can help manufacturers identify issues earlier, automate responses, and reduce operational disruption. The key is building that resilience before something goes wrong.
Ongoing Cyberattack Threats
Surprising though it may sound, manufacturing remains a frequent target for cyberattacks, with ransomware posing a particularly costly threat. Ransomware attacks on manufacturers rose 56% from 2024 to 2025 alone. Another report found that those ransomware demands averaged over $1 million per attack. As connected technologies expand across the plant floor, manufacturers must protect not only traditional IT systems but also the operational technology and connected devices critical to production.
Legacy Infrastructure Meets Modern Risk
Many manufacturing environments are connecting legacy systems and equipment that were never designed to operate online. As those systems become integrated with IoT devices and modern platforms, the attack surface expands.
Securing that environment requires addressing both technology and people—from infrastructure that wasn't built with cybersecurity in mind to teams navigating increasingly sophisticated digital threats. Closing the gap between IT and OT is critical to creating a more secure, resilient manufacturing environment.
Smart Manufacturing IT and Technology
Planning a smart manufacturing plant is a harmonious effort, bringing digital and physical technology and AI tools in coordination with existing IoT devices and onsite machines.
The Redesign Group helps manufacturers assess their current environment, identify gaps and opportunities, and build a technology roadmap aligned to their operational goals. From modernization and cybersecurity to AI readiness and implementation, we help you move forward with a strategy built for both today's plant and what's next.
Value with Velocity in Manufacturing IT
Redesign understands the complexity of modernizing manufacturing environments without disrupting critical operations. Our four-step approach helps you identify priorities, evaluate solutions, implement effectively, and validate outcomes.
Assess
Give us 30 minutes of your time to conduct a brief discovery. We'll perform an in-depth audit of your organization's IT environment using industry-standard tools that integrate into Redesign's proprietary assessment portal.
Propose
We select, design, and quote recommended solutions in a detailed proposal with a current-state analysis, solution options, and financial summary, so that you can make the most informed decision possible.
Implement
Our world-class project managers and certified delivery engineers will ensure you receive quick time-to-value as we execute the plan.
Validate
Redesign provides ongoing assessments of the implemented solutions to ensure you receive the expected technology and business outcomes.
Strategy and Expertise for Smart Manufacturing
A layered strategy for the plant you run today, and the one you're building next.
The Redesign Group builds a layered strategy across assessment, incident response planning, ongoing monitoring, and recovery testing. Network segmentation, identity and access controls, and monitoring playbooks are designed around the realities of the plant floor. If an incident occurs, your team has a tested plan to contain it, respond quickly, and minimize disruption.
Manufacturing Assessments
Identify the blind spots across both smart and legacy systems before they become incidents, and start building a plan based on your technology and goals.
IT Decisions Without the Guesswork
Compare vendors and pricing in one place, revisit decisions as conditions change, and work with a trusted advisor to evaluate the right path forward.
Your Path to Smart Manufacturing
In-house, outsourced, or a blend of both: the right structure depends on your team and the environment you already run.
New Strategies for New Risks
Addressing new risks in manufacturing IT takes more than a patch. You need a full view of your operation to examine where smart systems meet legacy machinery, and where IT and OT teams see the same environment from two different perspectives.
Let's build what's next for your manufacturing environment.
The Redesign Group can help identify the right opportunities based on your objectives, working with you as a partner. Get in touch with us today to start advancing your manufacturing technology strategy.
