Our manufacturing sector expertise

Modern IT for modern manufacturing

Whether you’re strengthening supply chains, adopting innovative technologies, or reducing exposure to cyber risks, we understand your need to remain competitive and resilient, and we are able to help.

That’s why companies in the manufacturing sector rely on our technological expertise, our cloud solutions, and our services.

Tell us about your needs

They trust us

YOUR CHALLENGES

OUR SOLUTIONS

Integration of advanced technology

Aging systems are more fragile, more difficult to maintain, and rarely compatible with current requirements. To adopt artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), and data analysis, you need appropriate technological infrastructure.

Robust technological infrastructure

After assisting you in selecting applications and defining the associated architecture, R2i can deploy the appropriate infrastructure on site or in our Edwin Cloud for you.
This includes high-performance servers, high-capacity, low-latency storage, a high-speed, low-latency local network, as well as maintenance services and regular infrastructure updates to ensure optimal performance and security. Managed services are also available for updates and infrastructure management.

Increased cybersecurity threats

Manufacturing companies are particularly vulnerable to cyberattacks due to their reliance on supply chains and the increased interconnectivity of industrial IoT devices.

Reduce cyberattack risks

We will implement cutting-edge security measures, including continuous verification of users and devices, rigorous access controls, network segmentation, endpoint management and employee training.
Edwin meets the highest security standards, including AES 256 data encryption.

Disaster readiness

The partial or total shutdown of a factory paralyzes production and prevents the company from delivering to its customers. Backups are the final line of protection to respond to any incident (for example, a successful ransomware attack), so they must not only be available, but also have integrity.

Business continuity planning

In the event of a ransomware attack, an Incident Response Plan must be immediately activated to contain the attack. Once the incident is contained, the Disaster Recovery Plan allows the restoration of systems from backups whose integrity has been verified, and the implementation of measures to prevent future attacks. R2i can prepare these plans for your company. Edwin respects the highest standards of robustness and site redundancy. The data is hosted in Canada, which protects it from the CLOUD Act.

Case study

Migration of IBM I environments to Edwin, the R2i Cloud

A leading manufacturer, a converter and marketer of packaging and paper products, is looking to migrate its on-premises IBM i environments to the Cloud.
The environment is replicated in software in the R2i Cloud.

Challenges

Flexibility

The company is not able to manage the decline of the platform, which comprises 2 servers at the end of their life, with 25 partitions distributed in 2 data centers, and supporting manufacturing operations, payroll, and maintenance.

Expertise

Difficulty recruiting and retaining qualified personnel on the platform is causing a growing risk over time.

Efficiency

The current data center management model is not appropriate for their agility and performance requirements and does not align with the needs of the organization.

Solutions offered by R2i

To better focus on value-added activities and allocate resources accordingly, the company decides to migrate to Edwin, the R2i public cloud, taking advantage of our Power – IBM i expertise.

Here are the key steps of this eight-month migration, from establishing the migration prerequisites to migrating the very last partitions to Edwin.

Assessment and planning : R2i carries out a comprehensive assessment of the existing infrastructure and develops a detailed migration plan, including environment upgrades.

Setting up prerequisites before migration

Application migration : R2i migrates critical applications to Edwin using advanced migration tools and proven methodologies. A first development partition is migrated. We extensively validate its operation (network latency, performance, interaction with R2i operating staff, etc.). Then we migrate the remaining development partitions and finally the production partitions.

The solution R2i implements includes the following services:

Cloud IBM Power – IBM i
Extended Managed Services for Power environments – IBM i
Incident recovery management
Governance and security

Results

The solution is successfully deployed on schedule.
The company no longer has to worry about managing the platform and maintaining IBM i expertise.
The company is now able to devote more time and resources to new growth-generating initiatives.

You are an exemplary partner, with incredible expertise, know-how and a work ethic that has given us confidence. You responded promptly to issues during the migration, and we are confident for the future.
— Dany Briard, IT Director