FlexForce Overview
Move Forward Fearlessly
The first-of-its-kind Operational Technology (OT) application delivery platform, FlexForce™ by Interstates, reduces the application management cycle from months to weeks — or, in some cases, even days. It’s more efficient, reliable, secure, and cost-effective than current OT technology. You can add, update, and manage the applications you need to confidently meet your manufacturing and cybersecurity goals — with minimal production downtime.
See What Your Plant Can Do
FlexForce empowers your operation to reach its full potential. This OT application delivery platform ensures the OT applications behind your production data collection and monitoring processes are standardized, optimized and protected — making it effortless for your OT to run as lean as you do
Scalable and Flexible OT Application Management Solution
The right tool for many jobs, FlexForce can deploy OT-supported applications seamlessly, regardless of your operation's size. Use available third-party OT applications, or build your own to support tasks such as:
Asset Management
Keep your OT network current and at an approved, secure status.
24x7 Security Monitoring
Maximize visibility and improve incident response time.
Log Management
Improve resource management, simplify application troubleshooting, and streamline compliance and alerting.
Utility Monitoring
Receive information about unusual utility consumption and identify problems before they occur.
Real-Time Data Collection
Watch for deviations from predicted normal metrics, production inefficiencies, and opportunities for preventive maintenance.
Custom Applications
Meet a specific need with applications that we build or that you build yourself.
Benefits of FlexForce in Your Facility
Increased Efficiency
FlexForce helps you ensure peak performance. Automated profile-based application provisioning gives you reliable, repeatable, and predictable release management across your staging environments from testing to “live” — while significantly reducing release timeframes.
Reduction of Risk
FlexForce puts you in control. By taking a self-contained application approach, the risk and complexity of release orchestration are dramatically reduced.
On-premise or cloud orchestration: FlexForce provides a quick, reliable, and repeatable way to orchestrate applications throughout the platform — including deployment, replacement, and updates.
Automatic application provisioning: FlexForce requires minimal intervention for configuration and updates.
Security by Design
Secured by Twistlock: FlexForce was designed with security and your complete confidence in mind.
Next generation security solutions: As you manage the deployment of your suite of OT supported applications across your manufacturing environments and plant sites, strict security rules are monitored and enforced by the FlexForce platform.
Security profiles are built specifically into each application: These security profiles automatically follow applications wherever they are deployed and provide immediate security upon deployment.
Cost Effectiveness
FlexForce helps you cut production costs. It dramatically reduces the time and labor it takes to deploy and end-manage OT applications. And it eliminates operator error caused by manually configuring and updating applications — all of which reduce downtime while boosting your plant’s productivity and profitability to deliver a positive ROI.
One annual subscription fee: Hardware costs can be paid up front or spread out in annual payments. Monitoring and support costs are bundled together in an annual subscription — above that, you only pay for any additional applications or services you choose.
The Art of Smart OT
Interstates has been on the leading edge of operational technology since its inception. We have a deep understanding of both the production and IT sides of the OT equation. FlexForce is the platform that enables us to design an OT solution tailored to suit your needs — helping you boldly redefine what’s possible for your business today. And tomorrow. Contact us at bdev@interstates.com to get started!