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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.
Quality Management System (QMS)
Quality Management System (QMS) is a cloud-based digital quality solution for manufacturers that standardizes and automates quality documentation, processes, and measurements.
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is a full-featured, scalable, cloudbased ERP that automates front- and back-office processes.
Supply Chain Planning (SCP)
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.
Connected Worker
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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Cloud Infrastructure & Security
Enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure with industry-leading security and compliance.
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Access critical manufacturing data and controls from anywhere with our mobile apps.
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Industry-leading uptime and performance with 99.5% availability guarantee.
Manufacturing Automation
Seamless integration with Rockwell Automation and other manufacturing systems.
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Schaller Group Gains Visibility by Migrating to Plex, by Rockwell Automation

Metal former selects Plex ERP to digitize operations and gain end-to-end facility visibility

March 3, 2024 - Plex by Rockwell Automation, a leader in cloud-delivered smart manufacturing solutions, today announced that the precision metal forming and assembly company, Schaller Group, has chosen the Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform as an integrated, state-of-the-art manufacturing and business solution to run its Michigan-based aerospace and prototype facility. Schaller selected the full suite of Plex solutions, including Plex Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Plex Manufacturing Execution System (MES), and Plex Quality Management System (QMS).

The decision to migrate to a new solution was driven by challenges Schaller faced across its current systems and increasingly stringent cybersecurity requirements from their customers. Across the board, processes were multi-platform and manual. The company did not operate off a single source of truth, but rather, various spreadsheets, a legacy ERP system, and numerous paper documents—all in a siloed manner. This lack of integrated systems created a significant challenge to meeting their customers’ cybersecurity requirements. Another major pain point for Schaller was production scheduling—where production often bottlenecked, produced limited reporting and capacity visibility, and a lack of automation. The company also recognized a need to improve quality management, hoping for better traceability and production control. Schaller leadership, along with its committed employees, ultimately agreed a new ERP system was essential to continue to serve its customers and grow its operations.

As Schaller continues its Plex journey, the company looks forward to seeing both immediate and long-term improvements where Plex not only addresses the issues listed above—automating inventory for better production scheduling and providing digitized quality management abilities—but also provides even more benefits:

  • Access to real-time KPI visibility
  • Cross-functional automated, digital system
  • Elimination of paper-based processes across most department
  • Increased financial visibility into production

The implementation of Plex is underway and both companies are eager for a successful go-live, along with exciting results.

"The ability to move from manual entry to digital systems that streamline operations, connect the plant floor to other areas of the business, and provide access to operational data is invaluable,” shares David Schaller, Director of Advanced Manufacturing, Schaller Group. “We know Plex ERP will change Schaller’s day-to-day for the better, as our employees gain insights previously unavailable, comply with quality requirements with ease, and tap into the potential of automation. As our industry continues to face enhanced cybersecurity requirements, Plex ERP’s cloud-based architecture will provide the added benefit of helping us maintain industry standards for cybersecurity.”

“We’re pleased that Schaller Group put its trust and confidence in Plex,” says James Madden, enterprise software sales executive, Rockwell Automation. “Plex’s comprehensive ERP functionality will soon provide Schaller with complete visibility from the shop floor to the top floor, giving them real-time insights into operations, quality, engineering, and finance. With Plex, Schaller will have the pulse of the entire enterprise at their fingertips, enabling smarter decision-making and enhanced efficiency.”


About Schaller Group

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Schaller Group is a trusted partner to leading manufacturers in the aerospace & automotive industries for 70+ years. We offer metal stamped parts on 50 to 1800 ton hydraulic & mechanical presses, robotic RSW & MIG welded assemblies, roll-forming, 5 axis machining and water jet. Located in Chesterfield, Mi, we have more than 500,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing. Certifications include AS-9100, IATF 16949, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 17025, NADCAP welding and laser.


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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