Industries · Manufacturing & Defense Suppliers
Manufacturing runs this county. Its IT shouldn't run on hope.
OneBody helps North Alabama machine shops and parts suppliers modernize the systems the shop floor runs on — quality records out of binders, order data typed once, ransomware defenses that match how manufacturers actually get hit — and gives defense suppliers a straight path on CMMC. Fixed fees against a written scope.
This is manufacturing country
Manufacturing is Jackson County’s largest employment sector at 31.5% of jobs — roughly triple the national share — and neighboring DeKalb County sits at 30.8%, per Alabama Department of Workforce county profiles. Statewide, the auto industry built 1.1 million vehicles in 2024 across a supplier network of about 150 companies. The capability serving big plants exists here; small shops deserve the same discipline at their scale.
Ransomware likes manufacturers
KELA tracked 838 ransomware attacks on manufacturers in the first nine months of 2025 — up 61% year over year — and Sophos found 51% of hit manufacturers paid, at an average of $1.0 million. The difference between a bad day and a bad quarter is visibility: Dragos’s 2026 OT/ICS review found firms with full network visibility contained ransomware in about 5 days versus a 42-day average. Fewer than 10% of OT networks have it.
Compliance flows downhill
Big buyers push requirements down the chain with automatic penalties — Walmart’s OTIF program, for example, fines suppliers 3% of cost of goods for cases late or short. For defense suppliers the flow-down is CMMC: a CyberSheath/Merrill Research survey found the median contractor SPRS score is 60 against the required 110, and 57% haven’t done a gap analysis at all. Enforcement phases tighten again November 10, 2026. If that’s your mail, start at Cybersecurity & CMMC — that page is the path.
What we’d fix first
IT Modernization
Map every system including the server nobody reboots; connect what can connect, isolate what can't.
How we fix it →
Document Digitization
Travelers, inspection forms, and quality evidence captured once and findable at audit time.
How we fix it →
Automation & Custom Software
Order data typed once — from customer email or EDI to your ERP — before penalties do the math for you.
How we fix it →
Cybersecurity & CMMC
The 800-171 gap analysis most suppliers haven't done, a truthful SPRS score, and a plan in score order.
How we fix it →
- Assembling binders, before
- ~2 days
- Pulled from the system, after
- 20 minutes
Same evidence, captured as work happens.
Frequently asked questions
A prime just sent us a cybersecurity questionnaire. Where do we start?
With scoping, not shopping. If your contracts carry DFARS clauses, the path is a NIST SP 800-171 gap analysis — the step a Kiteworks–Coalfire study found 57% of defense suppliers still haven't done. Our Cybersecurity & CMMC service is that path, and the enforcement schedule tightens again in November 2026.
Our machines are 25 years old. Can they even connect?
Often, yes — through the controls, the network, or the paperwork around them. Where a machine truly can't connect or can't be patched, we isolate it properly and modernize around it. The roadmap says which is which, machine by machine.
Are we honestly a ransomware target at 20 people?
Yes — manufacturers can't tolerate downtime, which is why attackers like them. KELA tracked 838 ransomware attacks on manufacturers in just the first nine months of 2025, up 61% year over year, and Sophos found 51% of hit manufacturers paid. The defenses that matter most — tested backups, MFA, visibility — are exactly what the assessment checks.
What does this cost?
Prices are published: the assessment is $3,500–4,500 fixed depending on size, automation from $4,000, digitization pilots from $2,000. CMMC work is quoted after scoping — never sight-unseen.
DFARS letter or just tired of binders?
Defense deadlines skip the assessment pitch — talk to us directly.