Keep Production Moving. Protect your Data.
Simplify your IT.
Modern manufacturing depends on technology at almost every level. From the infrastructure supporting your business-critical applications to the networks connecting people, systems and sites, IT downtime can quickly become operational downtime.
Simplify IT helps manufacturing businesses build, manage and protect the IT infrastructure they rely on.
Whether you need additional expertise alongside your existing IT team, help delivering a major infrastructure project, or a trusted partner to manage key parts of your environment, we provide flexible IT services designed around your business.
Enterprise Capability. Small Business Agility.
Your Production is Critical. Your IT should be Resilient.
Manufacturers face a difficult balancing act: maintaining availability and performance while modernising infrastructure, managing cyber risk and controlling costs.
Simplify IT provides access to experienced infrastructure specialists across managed services, networking, security, cloud, storage, backup, disaster recovery and IT support, allowing you to strengthen your existing team or outsource specific areas entirely.
Reduce
Downtime
Proactive monitoring and expert support help identify and resolve infrastructure issues before they become bigger operational problems. Simplify IT offers 24/7 infrastructure support and managed-service monitoring.
Protect Critical
Manufacturing Data
Safeguard important business and operational data with secure backup, immutable off-site storage and recovery capabilities designed to keep data recoverable following hardware failure, accidental deletion or cyberattack.
Strengthen Cyber Resilience
Protect infrastructure with layered security services covering networks, firewalls, endpoints, email, web and cloud environments.
Modernise Ageing
Infrastructure
From storage and compute through to networking, virtualisation and cloud, our consultants can help assess, design and deliver modern infrastructure aligned with your operational requirements.
IT Services for the Modern Manufacturer
Managed IT Services
Take the pressure off your internal IT team.
Simplify IT can manage individual areas of your infrastructure or provide a broader managed service covering monitoring, incident management, vulnerability hotfix patching and change management, with additional services available for server and storage, networks, endpoints, firewalls and business continuity.
Simplify IT offers Backup as a Service alongside business continuity and disaster recovery services.
Ideal for manufacturers that need additional capability without expanding their internal IT team.
Backup and Disaster Recovery
If the unexpected happens, how quickly can you recover?
Cyberattacks, equipment failure and accidental deletion can all threaten business continuity.
Simplify IT's Backup as a Service combines off-site storage, encryption and immutable backups, alongside recovery procedures and integrity testing, to help keep critical data secure and recoverable.
Protect your data. Strengthen your recovery strategy. Keep the business moving.
Network and Wi-Fi
Your network connects almost everything.
From individual access points to core network refreshes, Simplify IT provides network design, deployment, testing, auditing and support. Wireless surveying and troubleshooting are also available to identify coverage requirements and Wi-Fi issues.
Build the reliable connectivity your offices, warehouses and facilities depend upon.
Cloud and Infrastructure
On-premises, cloud or somewhere in between?
There isn't one infrastructure model that suits every manufacturer.
Simplify IT provides expertise across cloud assessment, design, deployment and migration, alongside technologies covering compute, storage, virtualisation, networking and Microsoft environments.
For organisations looking beyond traditional on-site infrastructure, Simplify IT also provides
private cloud and co-location services, with options covering customer-owned hardware and fully managed private cloud infrastructure.
IT Security
Manufacturing businesses need to protect users, infrastructure and data without making technology unnecessarily difficult to operate.
Simplify IT provides security capabilities spanning email, web, cloud applications, endpoints, mobile, campus and branch environments, data centres, auditing and assessments.
A practical, layered approach to strengthening your IT security.
Already Have an IT Team?
Great. We're here to make them stronger.
You don't have to outsource IT to work with Simplify IT.
We can provide specialist skills when your internal team needs additional capacity, experience or technical expertise, from infrastructure projects and migrations to troubleshooting, holiday cover and skills gaps. Our service offering supports both working alongside IT departments and fully outsourced managed services.
Use us when you need us.
If Your IT Stopped, How Long Could Production Keep Moving?
Manufacturing businesses depend on technology across an increasingly connected operation. A server failure, cyber incident or unsuccessful recovery can quickly become an operational problem rather than simply an IT problem.
Our
Manufacturing IT Self-Assessment is designed to get you thinking about the resilience of your infrastructure, security, backup and recovery strategy.
Why Simplify IT?
Enterprise Capability. Small Business Agility.
You don't have to choose between technical depth and personal service.
Highly Accredited
Simplify IT holds ISO 9001, ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials certifications.
Multi-skilled technical expertise
Its consultants work across multiple technology disciplines, helping provide clearer ownership and a more joined-up approach to projects.
Vendor Agnostic
Solutions can be designed around the required outcome rather than being restricted to a single technology vendor.
Responsive Support
Support contracts activate immediately upon receipt of an order, with project scoping typically beginning within two days.
Customer Recommended
We currently have a Net Promoter Score of over 94, and we're proud to have numerous case studies, testimonials and 5 star reviews for our service. Our reputation is everything to us. See for yourself...
Case Study: Leading UK Law Firm
What we did, in a nutshell:
A leading UK commercial law firm modernised its data infrastructure by implementing a resilient production and disaster recovery platform designed to support critical legal applications, document management systems, and growing client data volumes.
The solution utilised a tiered storage architecture, providing high-performance storage for active line-of-business workloads and a lower-cost archive tier for historical case files and infrequently accessed data, significantly reducing long-term storage costs while maintaining accessibility.
To further enhance availability and user experience, enterprise load balancing software was deployed to distribute application traffic and eliminate single points of failure. The environment is supported through an ongoing partner support agreement, providing proactive monitoring, health checks, optimisation services, software upgrades, capacity planning, disaster recovery testing, and rapid access to specialist engineers.
As a result, the firm has improved application performance, strengthened business continuity, reduced operational risk, and established a scalable platform capable of supporting future growth.
FAQ
How can Simplify IT help reduce IT downtime in a manufacturing environment?
We help manufacturers build more resilient IT environments through infrastructure modernisation, backup, disaster recovery, cloud services and ongoing technical support. The aim is to reduce single points of failure and ensure there is a clear recovery strategy should critical systems become unavailable.
Can you help us improve our disaster recovery and business continuity plans?
Yes. Simplify IT can help review your existing infrastructure, backup and recovery arrangements and identify areas where resilience can be improved. We can help develop a recovery approach focused on protecting critical systems and getting your business operational again following an outage or disruption.
How can Simplify IT help protect manufacturing businesses from cyber threats?
We can help strengthen security across your IT environment through solutions including managed firewall and endpoint protection, alongside infrastructure, backup and recovery services. Our approach is designed to provide multiple layers of protection while reducing the management burden on your internal IT team.
Can Simplify IT work alongside our existing IT team?
Absolutely. You don't need to completely outsource your IT to work with us. Simplify IT can complement your existing team, providing additional expertise for specific projects, infrastructure upgrades, migrations, resilience planning or ongoing technical support when additional skills and capacity are required.
When IT Stops, So Can Production.
From infrastructure, networking and security to managed services, cloud, backup and disaster recovery, Simplify IT provides the expertise behind resilient manufacturing IT.
Less complexity. Greater resilience. Expert support when you need it.
