IT Services for North Carolina Textile Manufacturers

North Carolina exported $1.6 billion in textile goods, and NC State's Wilson College of Textiles is the only U.S. university with a college devoted entirely to textiles, per EDPNC. The industry spans traditional mills, nonwovens and apparel, and those businesses run on order entry, inventory and plant networks that cannot go down.

• Managed IT: workstations, servers, Microsoft 365, helpdesk and planning on one monthly agreement
• Networks: plant and warehouse WiFi and segmented networks from our network team
• Security: 24/7 detection and response, MFA, email protection and awareness training on every plan
• Backup and disaster recovery sized to how long the plant can be down

Key takeaway: For a mill, IT downtime is lost production. See the cost of IT downtime for North Carolina manufacturers.

The Suite runs on your own server and is changed to fit how you work, with custom programming quoted before any work starts. It is licensed on its own agreement, separate from managed IT. See the PDC Software Suite page for the full module list.

Every Preferred Data plan, including the smallest, includes endpoint detection and response, 24/7 managed detection and response monitored by people, MFA, patching, email threat protection, security awareness training and backup we verify by restoring it. Preferred Professional adds identity threat detection, email encryption and zero-trust VPN; Preferred Complete adds recurring vulnerability scanning and an annual security assessment.

Plant equipment belongs on its own network segment, apart from office PCs and guest devices, so one infected laptop cannot reach production. Read network segmentation for manufacturers or see cybersecurity services.

CMMC contract requirements took effect on November 10, 2025. The phase that would have required third-party certification for most CUI work was suspended on July 13, 2026, and a September 3, 2026 class deviation directs contracting officers to remove CMMC third-party assessment requirements from contracts while the program is reviewed. Self-assessments remain: under the CMMC program rule, Level 1 (FCI) means 15 basic safeguarding requirements with an annual self-assessment in SPRS, and Level 2 (CUI) means the 110 requirements of NIST SP 800-171.

Preferred Complete includes readiness management for CMMC and NIST 800-171, and it is an add-on to Preferred Professional. We prepare you; certification comes from your own self-assessment or an accredited third-party assessor, never from your IT provider. Start with our CMMC Level 1 self-assessment guide and Phase 2 suspension briefing.

Plans are priced per user per month, and servers, firewalls, switches and access points are counted during a free quote and covered on the same agreement. Details and a quote request are on the pricing page.

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• Related industries: manufacturing and furniture