CodePod and CodeNet are purpose-built appliances that carry program files to your machines over an encrypted connection. Your 20-year-old control never touches the office network, and nobody walks another USB drive across the shop floor.
A CNC machine is bought to run for thirty years. The operating system inside it was not. That gap is where shops lose time — and where auditors start asking questions.
The systems inside most controls stopped receiving security updates long ago and can’t be brought up to date. If the machine can read a file share or a USB drive, we can connect it, whatever its age or brand, and it stays on your floor. Replacing a machine that still holds tolerance is an expensive way to fix a file transfer problem.
The file-sharing methods these controls were built around have been switched off on modern networks. They were never secure, so IT departments removed them. Every year, fewer of the old ways still work.
Sneakernet is what’s left. A drive in someone’s pocket carries no encryption and leaves no record of where it has been, and somebody walks it out to the machine again every time a program changes. It is also the hardest habit to defend in a CMMC assessment.
The device stands on both sides of the boundary and hands files across. Your network sees a modern, authenticated, encrypted endpoint. The machine sees the same file share or USB drive it has always seen. Neither side can reach the other.
The two sides of the appliance cannot see each other. Only files cross the middle.
Connect over secure Wi-Fi or plain Ethernet. Every upload is encrypted, and every person gets their own login and their own file space instead of one shared folder the whole building can reach.
Dangerous files are rejected before they can ever reach the machine. Files sit encrypted at rest, and every connection is written to an audit log you can hand to an assessor.
The control sees a standard network file share or a USB drive, which is exactly what it already knows how to read. Nothing is installed on the machine, and nothing about the way your operators work has to change.
Which one fits depends on how your machines connect and how many of them you have. If you’re not sure, tell us what’s on your floor and we’ll tell you straight.
One device per machine · Ethernet
The full-capability appliance. Beyond file transfer, CodePod can bridge machine data protocols back to your office network, making it both a file bridge and a monitoring gateway for the same machine.
One server · multiple machines · USB
The cost-effective route for smaller shops, and the answer for machines that have a USB port but no usable Ethernet. One server distributes files to receivers that plug straight into each control.
CodePod and CodeNet are both in beta and both available to order now, with longer-than-normal lead times. The hardware and software are finished and working. What beta means here is that we are still hardening edge cases and finishing documentation.
Where a beta unit needs swapping for final production hardware, we cover that at no charge. What the swap covers is set out in writing with your quote.
No Windows PC to buy, license, patch, or babysit in the corner of the shop. It is one sealed device that does one job.
Age, brand, and control generation don’t matter. If the machine can read a file share or a USB drive, it can be connected.
The device is transparent to the machine. Programs appear where they have always appeared. There is no new screen to learn at the control.
Twenty years of hands-on CNC experience is behind these products, from running the machines to fielding the support calls. The design decisions come from that.
If you handle Controlled Unclassified Information, the file path to your CNC machine is part of your assessment scope. Full-disk encryption, named user accounts, network isolation, and audit logging are built into these devices rather than bolted on afterwards.
Iron Glacier products help you close a specific gap. They support your compliance program. They do not by themselves certify your organization.
Send us your machine list, with makes, models, and how they connect, and we’ll come back with a straight recommendation and a quote. No pressure and no drip campaign.
