Solution Sheets: CTERA for Manufacturing Solution Sheet
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Manufacturing
Keep Production Moving. Protect IP. Scale Globally.
Modernize manufacturing data services across plants and engineering teams without disrupting operations.
Manufacturing Data Services Face New Pressure
Modern manufacturing runs across plants, engineering teams, and supplier ecosystems that need to work from the same data, even when connectivity is limited. As Industry 4.0 programs expand, legacy NAS and plant-by-plant storage models make it harder to protect IP, recover quickly from attacks, and scale governance without adding operational overhead.
Data Is Outgrowing Legacy Infrastructure
Cloud and analytics programs can drive 15–30% labor productivity gains when implemented successfully.
Modern manufacturing initiatives can reduce machine downtime by 30–50%.
Digitization can increase throughput by 10–30%.
The Biggest Data Challenges in Manufacturing
CTERA enables organizations to balance fast local access with centralized security, governance, and scalability, featuring:
Plant and engineering silos
Production sites, design teams, and regional offices often run separate storage environments. That fragmentation slows collaboration and makes it harder to maintain consistent controls.
Performance constraints at the edge
Manufacturing environments need fast local responsiveness, even when WAN links are limited or unreliable. Centralizing everything in one place can introduce latency and operational risk.
IP exposure and security gaps
As operations digitize, protecting sensitive designs, supplier data, and operational information becomes critical. Inconsistent access controls and uneven protection increase the risk of loss or industrial espionage.
Ransomware and recovery risk
A security incident can halt operations, delay shipments, and disrupt supply chains. Legacy approaches often rely on layered tools and manual recovery steps that are too slow when every hour matters.
Operational complexity across many sites
Managing upgrades, policies, monitoring, and support on a site-by-site basis consumes IT capacity and makes it difficult to enforce consistent governance.
Scaling without constant refresh cycles
Data growth from engineering content, connected systems, and multi-site collaboration can force repeated hardware purchases and overprovisioning
BUILT FOR MODERN MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS
CTERA standardizes data services across plants and engineering teams, combining local speed with centralized governance.
- Centralized governance with distributed performance
- Built-in security and organizational resilience
- Compliance-ready controls with policy-driven enforcement
- Minimal disruption to day-to-day plant and engineering workflows
- A flexible foundation for analytics and future automation initiatives
How CTERA Modernizes Manufacturing Data Infrastructure
Designed for multi-site manufacturing where performance must stay local, governance must stay consistent, and recovery must be fast enough to protect production continuity.
The CTERA Intelligent Data Platform is purpose-built to help healthcare organizations achieve the speed, scalability, and security today’s environments demand. Simplify operations and modernize file storage without disrupting the user experience.
- Distributed edge services for plants and remote sites, with centralized control and visibility
- Seamless collaboration across engineering teams, plants, and partners while reducing siloed storage
- Immutable protection and rapid recovery options designed for ransomware scenarios
- Secure access for distributed teams, including mobile and remote work models
- Elastic scalability by extending capacity with cloud or object storage as needed
Gore
International manufacturing company modernizes data management across remote sites with CTERA.
“Gore has partnered with CTERA to simplify our ROBO sites and move data from remote file servers to the cloud. CTERA has been a game-changer for us, offering an automated migration utility that has made it easier and faster for us to migrate data and retire remote servers across our locations in Europe.”
Jeff Newman, IT Architect
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