Cloud and IT for the High-Tech and Manufacturing Industries
High-tech manufacturers are shifting toward autonomous production, AI-driven quality control, and connected supply chains. This requires secure, scalable, and highly reliable digital platforms that can keep pace with rapid innovation and global operations.
Challenges in the High-Tech and Manufacturing Industries
Factories are becoming digitized, products contain more and more software, and as of August 15, 2026, medium-sized and large companies in the machinery, electronics, and vehicle sectors will be subject to the Cyberbeveiligingswet (Cbw, the Dutch Cybersecurity Act). Key challenges:
- Production systems that don’t communicate with each other
MES, SCADA, PLCs, sensors, and ERP often operate in silos. This limits visibility and slows down decision-making between engineering and operations. You can’t secure what you can’t see: OT devices such as HMIs and engineering workstations are often registered as regular IT equipment. - AI and simulation that never make it past the pilot phase
Computer vision, predictive maintenance, and digital twins require standardized data pipelines, computing power, and MLOps. Gartner expects that more than 40% of agentic AI projects will have been discontinued by the end of 2027 due to costs, unclear value, or risk. The data layer and the underlying platform determine whether a model remains in production. - Cybersecurity Under Pressure
Downtime, ransomware, long supply chains, and legacy on-premises systems directly impact a factory that operates around the clock. According to Dragos, 119 ransomware groups were active against industrial organizations in 2025, up from 80 in 2024. Since September 11, 2026, any company that supplies software in its products has been required to report actively exploited vulnerabilities under the Cyber Resilience Act.
Our solutions
SUE modernizes the IT systems of manufacturing companies in phases, ensuring that production continues uninterrupted.
Hybrid Factory Platforms Hybridcloud architectures, Kubernetes at the edge for workloads without strict real-time requirements (such as data collection and computer vision inference), data pipelines, and landing zones. Control remains with the PLC. With Cilium Egress Gateway, we connect machines on the factory floor without physical NAT routers.- HPC and AI Infrastructure for R&D
HPC clusters on AWS or in a hybrid environment, for simulation, chip design, digital twins, and computer vision, plus MLOps to keep models in production. NXP migrated its HPC environment using SUE to AWS. Do you use AWS Research and Engineering Studio (RES)? AWS is no longer developing it; we can help you transition to, for example, AWS Parallel Computing Service. - Legacy and Software Chain Ready for the CRA
Application Modernization with Re:App, Cloud Migration and CI/CD pipelines with vulnerability scans and an overview of the components used. This allows you to identify which products contain vulnerabilities within the CRA reporting deadlines.
Projects we are proud of
NXP achieves greater scalability and flexibility with HPC migration to AWS
Huisman enhances cloud security and compliance with Wiz
Our use cases in this sector
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Preventing Disruptions in Airport Cargo Handling: Outdated middleware and failing hardware were threatening the handling of international cargo at an airport. We modernized the platform using Infrastructure as Code, DevOps pipelines, and a migration to new vSphere infrastructure. Deployments are now predictable, and disaster recovery procedures have been implemented and tested.
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Test pipeline reduced from 2.5 minutes to 30 seconds per image: At a major automaker, slow uploads of OpenStack images were slowing down testing. Our engineer had the images written directly to Ceph, thereby bypassing the upload process. Image creation time dropped from 2.5 minutes to 30 seconds, developers receive feedback faster, and more tests are running through the pipeline.
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SUE is a Dutch cloud native solutions partner that modernizes mission-critical applications, reduces cloud costs, and manages your platform. Specialists in Linux, Kubernetes, and the cloud.
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