When it comes to consistency and yield, the Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform helps you put your money where your mix is.
Rise to the top with total quality control and traceability
Strict quality management takes a lot of resources. It's worth the effort but can leave you feeling less than efficient. Plex can lift the burden with total ingredient traceability, from supplier to shipping. Quality management is woven through our entire process, so you can trust that every product you bake is perfection.
We Solve for Your Unique Challenges
1. Quality Management
Seize control of your quality with real-time data integration and total traceability.
- Real-time data provides scheduling efficiency and precise material allocation to ensure you hit expiration deadlines and react to trends before they result in scrap and waste.
- Access documentation, anytime and with any device, with an integrated document management system.
- Leverage digital checksheets to ensure quality, safety, and compliance with customer and regulatory specifications.
- Track and monitor defects to quickly identify root causes.
- Real-time inventory lot management and tracking of ingredients.
- Automate your production and eliminate manual spreadsheets and processes.
- Quickly identify any affected lots or shipments in case of a recall, with immediate notifications to distributors and customers.
2. Production Control
Plex provides precise production control over your date-controlled inventory. Meet fluctuating demands in a snap.
3. Compliance and Safety
Streamline checks and audits.
- Perform regular, mandatory quality checks of formulation temperatures, washdowns, and finished product evaluations.
- Quickly access and deliver the documents for each auditor without the paper chase.
- Run mock audits and checks in minutes, instead of days.
A New Recipe for Growth
Since implementing Plex MES and Plex QMS, West-Bake has experienced impressive improvements:
- Enabled data-driven decision making with real-time production insights
- Digitized quality records and serialized barcodes for instant traceability
- Established a strong digital core to support scaling operations
With Plex, we get insight straight away into what we’re producing. Are we running ahead of schedule? Are we running behind? Everybody can see it. It flags up issues instantly, allowing us to respond quickly.
Learn How The Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform Can Help You