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. DoD paused the next enforcement phase in July 2026 pending a program review; the clauses already in contracts stayed in force. If that’s your mail, start at Cybersecurity & CMMC — that page is the path. If you supply into Huntsville and Redstone, that page covers the geography.
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 requirements already in your contracts didn't pause when DoD suspended the next enforcement phase in July 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.