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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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Smart Manufacturing Platform Overview
Discover how our integrated platform connects, automates, tracks, and analyzes your operations.
Cloud Infrastructure & Security
Enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure with industry-leading security and compliance.
Reporting & Analytics
Integrated data visualization and analytics platform enabling descriptive, diagnostic and predictive business insights with Plex.
Availability & Performance
Industry-leading uptime and performance with 99.5% availability guarantee.
Manufacturing Automation
Seamless integration with Rockwell Automation and other manufacturing systems.
Mobile Application
Access critical manufacturing data and controls from anywhere with our mobile apps.
Industries
Aerospace Auto and Tire Food & Beverage Industrial Manufacturing Plastics & Rubber Precision Metalforming
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2025 Gartner® Market Guide for Manufacturing Execution Systems
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The Manufacturer’s Guide to Elastic MES

Everything you need to know about paving the way to autonomy with an MES that’s flexible, resilient and easy to scale.
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The role of MES in a modern manufacturing environment

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Why traditional MES solutions no longer cut it

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What sets an MES with elastic qualities apart

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How the right partner  the right partner will make it easy to bring together systems, processes and data

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Today’s industrial environments require a new approach to MES. Discover how you can move from rigid to resilient with an elastic MES:

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Autonomous manufacturing starts with an elastic MES. Uncover what makes Rockwell Automation the right partner for a truly elastic solution:

 
Purpose-built for manufacturing

Tailored for discrete, hybrid, and regulated industries, ensuring compliance, traceability, and security.

Comprehensive capabilities

A multi-tenant SaaS environment with embedded AI technology to guide manufacturers along their autonomous operations journey.

Unified OT/IT integration

Seamless connectivity delivers holistic visibility and stronger business resiliency.

Extensible by design

A secure, resilient platform designed to integrate with existing systems and leverage emerging technologies like AI.

Resilient edge-to-cloud deployment

Flexible options from cloud-only to hybrid configurations to fit each site’s operational needs.

 

Elastic MES solutions, real results

 
 
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Price pressure and competition for skilled workers is fierce in the protein industry. To be successful, food producers like Maple Leaf Foods must find better ways to capture more value from the equipment on their plant floors—and attract, train, and retain workers.
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Pacur Serves Customers Meets Quality Requirements And Supports Forecasted Growth Plex
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Discover how Pacur saved time, gained efficiency, and enabled continuous improvement with the Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform.
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Jay Industries Achieves Major Yearly Savings and Increases Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) with Plex ERP and Plex MES A&O
Jay Industries Achieves Major Yearly Savings and Increases Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) with Plex ERP and Plex MES A&O
After struggling to trust the data of their previous ERP system, Jay Industries started looking for a new ERP system.
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    Gartner has named Plex Systems a Leader in the 2023 Magic Quadrant for Manufacturing Execution Systems.

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    Plex received the Gold Medal Award in the 2022 Info-Tech Data MES Quadrant Report. This guide uses user survey data to provide an easy-to-digest evaluation of popular MES solutions to help you make a better and faster MES selection.

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    “Plex Systems came out on top in the competitor ranking for vendors involved in the MES software ranking first for innovation and third for implementation. This is due to its innovative cloud-native MES design, rapid time to deployment, and wide customer base, all being supported by strong pricing guarantees.”

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    “In the early days of our company, an assembly that had 15 parts led to manually chasing everything and keeping track through every step on paper. Now, we are making items with hundreds of part numbers that go into one assemble.”

    – Jeff Karan, Director of IT, G&W Products

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