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Manufacturing Execution System (MES)
Manufacturing Execution Suite (MES) is a comprehensive manufacturing software solution that provides real-time, paperless production management to drive enterprise-wide compliance, quality, and efficiency.
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Quality Management System (QMS) is a cloud-based digital quality solution for manufacturers that standardizes and automates quality documentation, processes, and measurements.
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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is a full-featured, scalable, cloudbased ERP that automates front- and back-office processes.
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Supply Chain Planning (SCP) combines data from your Plex ERP and multiple departments across your business to sync up demand and supply planning to improve inventory accuracy and production management.
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Connected Worker empowers frontline manufacturing teams with real-time digital tools to improve productivity, reduce errors, and enhance collaboration. It connects your people, to purpose, people, productivity, and processes to drive continuous improvement and workforce agility on the shop floor.
Production Monitoring
Production Monitoring provides seamless connectivity to machines on the plant floor, delivering transparent, real-time operational KPIs and dashboards to drive continuous improvements.
MES Automation & Orchestration
MES Automation & Orchestration connects your Plex MES to the plant edge to control information flow, processes, and workcenter setup adding efficiency, saving costs, and eliminating manual errors.
Asset Performance Management (APM)
Asset Performance Management (APM) combines process, operational, and machine-level data through highly visual dashboards to proactively monitor machine and plant health to ensure optimal uptime, throughput, and maintenance needs.
Finite Scheduler
Finite Scheduler is an advanced production scheduling tool that helps manufacturers optimize resources, reduce bottlenecks, and improve on-time delivery. It enables dynamic, constraint-based scheduling to align operations with real-world capacity and demand
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Mike Rowe of ‘Dirty Jobs’ to Keynote Plex Systems’ PowerPlex

March 8, 2017

Plex Systems, the leader in cloud ERP for manufacturing, announces Mike Rowe as the keynote speaker for the annual user conference, PowerPlex 2017. Click here.

TROY, Mich., March 8, 2017 – Plex Systems, the leader in cloud ERP for manufacturing, today announced Mike Rowe, host of the hit TV series “Dirty Jobs,” will keynote PowerPlex 2017. Known as the “dirtiest man on TV,” Rowe will share the surprising lessons he learned as an apprentice traversing all 50 states and attempting 300 different jobs.

Plex’s annual user conference brings together the world’s largest gathering of cloud manufacturing professionals to share and learn how cloud ERP and manufacturing automation systems transform their businesses and industries. This year’s conference takes place May 8-11, 2017, in Atlanta, Georgia.

Mike Rowe: Honoring America’s Workers

Known for his ability to shine light on the value and experiences of some of America’s hardest workers, Rowe transformed cable television into a landscape of swamps, sewers, and coal mines. He has narrated hundreds of documentaries about space, nature, dinosaurs, hurricanes, and how stuff works. Most recently, Rowe launched The Way I Heard It, a weekly five-minute podcast of bite-sized mysteries for the curious mind with a short attention span.

Rowe also runs the mikeroweWORKS Foundation, a 501(c)(3) public charity that works hard to debunk myths about the skilled trades and help close the skills gap. As the CEO of the foundation, Rowe speaks regularly about the country’s dysfunctional relationship with work, the widening skills gap, and challenging the persistent belief that a four-year degree is automatically the best path for the most people. The foundation has granted or helped facilitate the granting of more than $4 million in technical and/or vocational education for trade schools across the country.

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“Plex is honored to welcome Mike Rowe to PowerPlex 2017,” said Jason Blessing, Plex Systems CEO. “Mike’s tireless advocacy for the people who turn ideas into reality across America is a passion we admire and embrace every day. I can’t think of a better message, and mission, to share with the Plex community.”

PowerPlex 2017

More than 1,200 manufacturing leaders will gather at PowerPlex 2017 to learn best practices, gain hands-on knowledge and connect with peers on how to most effectively leverage the Plex Manufacturing Cloud. Over four days, attendees will have the opportunity to choose from more than 90 sessions featuring Plex users, Plex product leaders and other industry experts. PowerPlex 2017 registration is open now.


About Plex

Plex, by Rockwell Automation, is a leader in cloud-delivered smart manufacturing solutions, empowering the world's manufacturers to make awesome products. Our platform gives manufacturers the ability to connect, automate, track, and analyze every aspect of their business to drive transformation. The Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform™ includes solutions for manufacturing execution (MES), ERP, quality, supply chain planning and management, asset performance management, production monitoring, process automation and analytics to connect people, systems, machines and supply chains, enabling them to lead with precision, efficiency and agility. To learn more, visit http://plex.rockwellautomation.com.

About Rockwell Automation

Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK), is a global leader in industrial automation and digital transformation. We connect the imaginations of people with the potential of technology to expand what is humanly possible, making the world more productive and more sustainable. Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Rockwell Automation employs approximately 29,000 problem solvers dedicated to our customers in more than 100 countries. To learn more about how we are bringing the Connected Enterprise to life across industrial enterprises, visit www.rockwellautomation.com.


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