Central Indiana's Managed IT Partner for Foreign-Owned Manufacturers
Pass your parent-company security audit. Keep your plant floor running. Predictable per-user pricing with no surprises. We work with Japanese-parent and other foreign-owned manufacturers across Indianapolis, Columbus, Shelbyville, Lafayette, and the central Indiana corridor.
Trusted by **four Japanese-parent manufacturers** in central Indiana — managing more than 400 endpoints across the plant floor, the front office, and the parent-company connection.
Why a manufacturing-specific MSP?
Most managed IT providers in Indiana sell the same package to a law firm, a hospital, and a 75-person manufacturing plant. We don't.
A manufacturer's IT problems aren't a law firm's IT problems. You have a plant floor full of PLCs, SCADA systems, and machine controllers that don't tolerate the same patching schedule as office laptops. You have a parent company — sometimes 6,000 miles and 14 time zones away — sending security policies, audit questionnaires, and ERP integration requirements you have to comply with. You have a controller who wants the per-user IT cost on one line, not eleven invoices from eleven vendors.
Tubesock was built for that. We've been running IT for central Indiana manufacturers for 29 years, and for the last decade we've focused specifically on foreign-owned manufacturers — companies whose US subsidiary needs an IT partner who already understands the parent-company / subsidiary dynamic and doesn't need to learn it on your dime.
Three things we do for every manufacturer we work with.
Pass your parent-company IT audit
Japanese, German, and Korean parent companies are tightening cybersecurity requirements on their US subsidiaries every year. We've watched it happen across our client base since 2022.
Our security stack is bundled into every engagement: managed EDR, MDR / SOC, MFA, DNS filtering, email security, immutable backup, and ongoing user awareness training. Our operations are ISO 27001-aligned and the documentation is written in plain English — ready to translate, ready to audit.
When the next request comes from corporate, you'll have an answer.
Keep your plant floor running
Manufacturing-floor IT isn't office IT. PLCs, HMIs, SCADA workstations, MES integrations, machine controllers with operating systems older than your newest hire — they all need different care.
We map your OT/IT boundary on day one and document what we touch, what we monitor, and what your machine vendor still owns. No surprises, no finger-pointing the next time a controller goes dark at 2 AM.
One price per user. One bill. One partner
Our standard agreement is an all-inclusive managed services contract: a single per-user, per-month rate that covers the security stack, the help desk, the patching, the monitoring, the backups, and a dedicated Technical Account Manager who knows your environment.
No surprise charges for incidents. No nickel-and-diming on after-hours. No "that wasn't in the contract" conversations. Your controller gets one number per user per month — and the number doesn't move except for the annual escalator written into your contract.
Why us, specifically
We're not the biggest IT firm in Indiana, and we don't want to be. We're a 10-person team built specifically for the kind of company you run — large enough to staff a 24×7 service desk and a real security operations function, small enough that you know the people on the other end of the phone.
We're also embedded in this community in a way most MSPs aren't. Our founder, Rob Nolley, serves on the board of the City of Shelbyville's International Relations Council — owning the city's sister-city relationship with **Shizuoka, Japan**, and the city's relationships with foreign-owned manufacturers across Shelby County. The same networks your parent company asks you to navigate, we already operate inside.
That's not marketing copy. That's how we built the practice.
How a conversation with us starts.
- A 30-minute scoping call
No pressure, no slide deck. We ask about your business, your parent company, your current IT setup, and what's keeping you up at night. We answer your questions about how we work and what we cost. - A written summary and a per-user quote
Within five business days, we send you a clear, plain-English summary of what we discussed, what we'd recommend, and what it would cost per user per month for a fully-managed relationship. - Your decision
If the math works, we onboard. If it doesn't, we'll tell you what we'd do in your shoes — even if that's not hiring us.
Questions before a meeting?
Rob Nolley
President/CEO
(317) 398-6766 - Ask for Rob
rob@tubesock.net - direct
Tubesock, inc.
30 E. Washington St.,
Suite 400
Shelbyville, IN 46176