Smart Manufacturing Week
3 – 4 June, 2026
NEC, Birmingham
Meet GTT at Smart Factory 2026, The Festival of Advanced Manufacturing & Engineering. Designed to allow manufacturers to be the most efficient, the most sustainable, and the most profitable in the world, Smart Factory Expo is where change-makers can find the insights, the solutions, and the connections for their digital transformation projects.
Connect with us to discuss how GTT can support your cybersecurity roadmap, accelerate your digital transformation securely, and give you the end-to-end visibility and control required for the factories of the future.
The benefits of GTT’s manufacturing expertise
Global connectivity that keeps production moving
Your operations need secure, reliable, predictable performance across every site, from the mainfactory to the smallest branch office. GTT brings your environments together through Secure Connect, Managed SD-WAN, Cloud Connect, and our global Tier 1 IP backbone, delivering a cohesive network experience.
Without GTT
- Regional networks with inconsistent performance
- Slow, complex onboarding of new plants and logistics sites
- Limited visibility into network or app performance
With GTT
- One global network with centralized control
- Faster, simpler turn-up of new sites
- Consistent performance for your critical cloud applications such as MES, ERP, digital twins, analytics
HMY Group implemented Managed SD-WAN across its global locations, reducing network costs by 22% while doubling site bandwidth to support production and design workloads.
Built-in cyber resilience and zero-trust access
With increasing cyber threats across both IT and OT environments, you can protect both by embedding security directly into your network with Secure Connect, Zero-Trust Network Access, Managed Detection and Response, Managed Firewall and DDoS protection.
Without GTT
- Legacy OT systems exposed to modern attacks
- Inconsistent global security controls
- Limited visibility into threats
With GTT
- Globally consistent protection across every site
- Zero-trust access enforced by user, device and context
- Faster detection and response via global SOCs
Mitsubishi Electric UK deployed SD-WAN and advanced security services to modernize its network across UK and Ireland with tightened access controls, enhanced threat detection, and improved overall resilience.
Cloud-smart and edge-ready performance
Some workloads belong in the cloud. Others must stay close to the production line, where milliseconds matter. GTT helps you place applications where they perform best without compromising security or control.
Without GTT
- Latency issues impacting robotics, analytics, digital twins
- Unpredictable cloud performance
- Fragmented visibility across on-prem, edge, and cloud
With GTT
- Private, high-performance connectivity to major cloud providers
- Optimized workload placement (cloud or edge)
- Unified application and network visibility via GTT EnvisionDX
Etex modernized its global network with SD-WAN and Cloud Connect to support its multi-cloud strategy, improving visibility, strengthening reliability and optimizing application performance across 160+ sites.
Simpler operations, more control for lean IT teams
Manufacturing IT teams often support dozens — even hundreds — of globally distributed sites with limited resources. GTT takes on project, technical and service management so you can focus on higher-value work.
Without GTT
- IT is juggling multi-vendor networks
- Long deployment timelines, inconsistent standards
- Too many escalations and slow troubleshooting
With GTT
- One accountable partner across all regions
- Standardized architectures and consistent global delivery
- Proactive optimization guided by shared telemetry
Barry Callebaut deployed a global Managed SD-WAN architecture across 130+ sites, simplifying operations and improving reliability across manufacturing and logistics networks.
Why leading manufacturers
choose GTT
- Tier 1 backbone for predictable network performance and global reach
- Secure Connect (SASE) and managed software defined networking and security
- GTT Envision Platform for visibility, insights, orchestration, and control
- Global delivery model supporting 170+ countries
- One partner, one platform, one digital experience for networking, security and cloud
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World’s top automotive manufacturers
Our Manufacturing service portfolio
Connect your plants, protect operations and support your global Industry 4.0 evolution
Managed SD-WAN
High-performance connectivity for every site
SASE: Secure Connect
Integrated networking and security in a single platform
Cloud Security
Secure access to the cloud
Network Security & Operations
Cyber resilience for manufacturing systems
Voice
Secure, dependable unified communications at global scale
Industry insights
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Fortune 500 Consumer Packaged Goods Case Study
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Learn more: Manufacturing Case Study
Manufacturing Case Study
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Learn more: Seamless Multi-Site Connectivity
Seamless Multi-Site Connectivity
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