Jay Stoltzfus How to Spot a Scam Email The email is sitting on your office manager's screen right now, and there is nothing wrong with it. It comes from your steel supplier. It uses your rep's name, the one who has been walking through you...
Jay Stoltzfus Machine Shop Cloud Storage Your engineer opens the top-level assembly and gets a column of missing-file warnings. Twenty of them. The parts are still on the network somewhere. The assembly just cannot find them anymore, because...
Jay Stoltzfus Cyber Insurance for Manufacturers The letter from the carrier runs two pages, and most of it is boilerplate. The sentence that matters sits halfway down the second page, and it points back to a question somebody in your office answere...
Jay Stoltzfus Email Spoofing Your office manager sets a printed email on your desk and waits. It is on your letterhead, your logo is in the corner, and the signature block is close enough that you have to look twice. It says your...
Jay Stoltzfus Backup and Disaster Recovery for Small Manufacturers The file server in the closet behind the front office ran nine years without a complaint. This morning it won't boot. Nobody can pull prints. The CAM programs live on that box, so machines sit idle at...
Jay Stoltzfus AI Tools for Manufacturers Somebody in your shop is already using AI. Probably not you. Last month it was a quality manager who pasted a customer's print into a free chatbot to help write an inspection report. Before that, the ...
Jay Stoltzfus Employee Retention in Your Shop Starts With Better IT The notice is two sentences long and sitting on your desk when you walk in. It's from the guy who programs both of your newest machines, and he already has something lined up 20 minutes up the road. Y...
Jay Stoltzfus Antivirus vs EDR The first person to notice is almost never in the office. It's the guy at the machine, pulling up a print for the next job, getting an error instead. He tries the folder again. The file names look wro...
Jay Stoltzfus 4 Tech Myths for Manufacturers That Cost Real Money A two-page security questionnaire comes over from your biggest customer's purchasing group. Someone prints it and sets it on your desk. Multi-factor authentication on company email: yes or no. Backups...
Jay Stoltzfus How to Choose an IT Provider for Your Machine Shop It's 7:15 on a Wednesday. The file server that holds every print, every Mastercam program, and the folder your quotes come out of went unreachable sometime during second shift. You called your IT comp...
Jay Stoltzfus Cloud Solutions for Small Manufacturers It's the Monday after a Saturday storm. The power blinked twice over the weekend, and the server in the office closet is making a noise it has never made before. First shift is already clocked in. The...
Jay Stoltzfus Shop Floor Wi-Fi Dead Zones It's 9:15 on a Wednesday. Your setup guy is standing at machine four with a tablet, trying to pull the current revision of a print, and the wheel just spins. He walks twenty feet toward the office and...
