INDUSTRIES

IT support for
manufacturers.

Geekland IT supports manufacturers from Lakeville, across the Twin Cities, nearby suburbs, and western Wisconsin. We look after the computers and accounts your office and shop rely on, work with your software vendors on problems, and keep shared documents organized.

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04 / MANUFACTURING

Manufacturing businesses run on shared documents
as well as machines.

When a shipping employee needs packing paperwork while the office is correcting an order, both depend on working computers and access to shared business documents.

Geekland IT supports your computers and accounts, works with software vendors on problems, and considers which shared documents people use on a computer before we change it.

Discuss your IT needs

Help for the office and the shop

We help with computer and email trouble, business application issues, and user access. A problem in one part of the office setup can hold up work elsewhere, so we look at what the person needs to finish the task as well as the error they’re reporting.

Access to shared documents

We set permissions on shared folders of order records and production documents so the right people can open or change them, and we review that access as roles change.

Those documents also belong in backup planning, since the business would need them to carry out jobs after an outage. We discuss which records would be needed for recovery alongside the access people need day to day.

Older software and new computers

Some older business applications depend on other office systems, so we check those dependencies before any equipment change.

That way a change to one machine doesn’t stop an application the office still relies on.

THE COMMON THREAD

IT recommendations
based on how you operate.

We start by learning which applications people need to finish their work and when they need them, because a system used mainly around a deadline can matter as much as one used every day.

Then we discuss where staff get stuck and where access or protection needs attention, and we explain what would change if each problem were fixed so you can decide what comes first.

Before work begins, we agree on which parts of your IT Geekland IT will handle, which responsibilities stay with you, and which belong to your software vendors.

LET’S TALK

Which system does your shop floor
depend on most?

Tell us which applications your staff rely on and what’s been hard to manage, and we’ll start with the work your business needs help with.