What Can A Manufacturer Do with IT/MES When There’s No Time Nor Budget To Waste

Our MetaExpert™ quickly collaborated with the client's Chief Operating Officer (COO) to ensure that the percentage of annual revenues spent on IT and Manufacturing Execution System (MES) would remain unchanged as the customer said, “There’s no time nor budget to waste”. The proposed ratio of investment spending to maintenance spending in IT/MES would allow for new hardware, equipment, and systems to be implemented to support our client’s growth.

Beginning with an extensive analysis and observation period identifying IT practices and spending levels. Kendall accomplished these goals by:

• Insourcing much of the IT/MES support functions to lessen overall maintenance costs
• Implementing a better balance of on-site and cloud-based systems that would not be compromised by data service outages
• Improving cybersecurity measures through new SOPs and systems deployed with respect to the growing and ongoing zero-day threats and ransomware attacks while accommodating the DOD’s regulatory and security compliance standards
• Keeping IT and MES operations stable while making the needed improvements to both investments and upgrades