Tabletop Exercises for Manufacturing & Industrial Operations | Opsbook

Manufacturing

Resilience exercises built for plants, OT, and supply chains

Manufacturing incidents aren’t abstract. They become downtime, quality escapes, missed shipments, and safety risk. Opsbook runs role-based simulations that expose where coordination breaks—before it breaks production.

OT + IT coordination Plant leadership participation Vendor / remote access risk Action catalog + owners

Targeting trend

IBM’s Threat Intelligence Index notes manufacturing as the #1 targeted industry (multi-year trend).

Industrial ransomware

Dragos reports industrial sectors remain prime ransomware targets, with attackers leveraging credential abuse and remote access weaknesses.

The real gap

Most plants have playbooks. Fewer have exercised cross-functional decisions under real operational constraints.

Scenarios that create real downtime

Micro-simulations built to test how your org actually makes calls when production is on the line.

Ransomware forces plant operations decision

Practice when to isolate networks, stop lines, or run degraded—with OT, IT, safety, and leadership aligned.

Remote access compromise via vendor tooling

Test detection and containment when valid accounts are abused through remote access pathways into plant environments.

ERP/MES outage during peak schedule

Exercise manual workarounds, prioritization, customer communications, and recovery sequencing.

ICS integrity incident (unexpected setpoints)

Run response when controls appear “within bounds” but behavior is wrong—forcing OT + engineering validation steps.

Quality system compromise + recall risk

Simulate tampered data or process deviations and test how quality, legal, ops, and comms coordinate quickly.

Supply chain disruption + cyber overlap

Train decisions when suppliers fail, logistics reroutes, and cyber constraints collide—so escalation rules are clear.

Outcome: dashboards by role and scenario, after-action reporting, and an action catalog that assigns owners and deadlines to fixes.

How it works

Step 01

Build plant-relevant scenarios fast

Define sites, systems (ERP/MES/OT), safety constraints, and roles. Opsbook generates role-specific injects and decisions.

Step 02

Run exercises across shifts

Train operations leaders, OT engineers, IT/security, and exec stakeholders asynchronously—without halting production for a single meeting.

Step 03

Convert findings into controlled change

After-action reports plus an action catalog that documents what changed—then retest to verify readiness improvements.

Integrations and evidence exports

Keep action tracking and evidence centralized—so exercises drive real remediation.

ServiceNow Jira Splunk SIEM exports CSV / PDF evidence Teams / Slack

Ready to make manufacturing resilience measurable?

Train teams under real constraints—and prove readiness across plants, roles, and scenarios.