Are you ready to lead the Smart Manufacturing revolution?
The Plex Connected Worker platform is your chance to trailblaze as the manufacturing industry faces a significant shift in the workforce. Now is the time to empower your employees through technology, data, and enhanced communication.
Standardize on-boarding
Digital Work Instructions feature step-by-step task guidance
Make data-driven decisions
Manage activities, access real-time insights, and act on other key measurables
Communicate seamlessly
Witness the benefits of a connected shop floor, as employees utilize a Microsoft Teams Chat integration
What is a Connected Worker?
A connected worker is a frontline manufacturing employee who uses digital tools to stay linked with machines, data and people in real time. Plex’s connected worker solution gives workers step-by-step, digital work instructions, integrates activity tracking and performance metrics and enables seamless collaboration through embedded chat. This empowers workers to make data-driven decisions, reduce errors and feel more engaged by connecting their work to the larger manufacturing process.
Plex Connected Worker: Consistent and Clear
The Rise of the Connected Worker: Navigating the Changing Industrial Landscape
Connected Worker Capabilities
Connected Technology supported by the core pillars of Smart Manufacturing
Plex Connected Worker provides your company with consistency and flexibility as the industry continues to change.
Connect
Connect tools, processes, data, and people through the full lifecycle of the production system.
Automate
Automate tedious tasks and empower your employees to develop new skills.
Track
Track activity, progress, and communication all in one screen.
Analyze
Analyze real-time production metrics and make informed decisions.
Plex Connected Worker Features
Digital Work Instructions
Plex’s Connected Worker provides employees with step-by-step instructions to guide tasks across people, machines, and devices. This expedites the on-boarding process, enhances precision, reduces error, and accelerates production timelines.
Key Measurables
Real-time performance metrics provide production insights that are available at your fingertips. With increased production visibility, your team will be empowered to make data-driven decisions.
Activity Management
The “home screen” of the Plex Connected Worker streamlines production activity into one, easily accessed spot. Team leaders can organize, track, and optimize tasks for people, machines, and devices.
Collaboration
An embedded Microsoft Teams application connects individuals across the shopfloor and company. With smart communication, employees can better coordinate and efficiently collaborate with one another.
Skills & Knowledge Management
Plex Connected Worker offers a centralized system for skill tracking, enablement, and enforcement. Companies no longer need to rely on word-of-mouth for knowledge-sharing and can instead maintain a standard of competency.
Employee Health & Safety
Plex Connected Worker technology creates a single source of truth for training and work instructions. This consistency mitigates risks, enhances productivity, and ensures employee well-being and safety.
“Connected Frontline Workforce (CFW) applications are a strategic imperative to address critical challenges in safety, quality, and productivity. Manufacturing leaders are deploying CFW applications to bridge skills gaps, improve employee retention, and enhance the overall employee experience through better user interfaces, interactive training, and real-time insights.”
Connected Worker FAQs
What is a connected worker solution?
Plex Connected Worker is a smart manufacturing tool that brings frontline workers into a digital ecosystem by linking people, machines and processes. It provides step-by-step digital work instructions, activity tracking, real-time performance metrics and built-in collaboration through chat. The aim is to standardize workflows, improve clarity and make the shop floor more connected and efficient.
How does a connected worker solution improve productivity?
It boosts productivity by guiding workers with digital, step-by-step instructions that reduce error and speed up onboarding. Real-time visibility into key performance metrics helps workers and managers make data-driven decisions and optimize their tasks. Embedded collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams chat help teams coordinate quickly, reducing delays and misunderstandings.
How does a connected worker solution enhance safety and compliance?
By centralizing training materials, work instructions and safety documentation, the solution ensures every worker follows the same standardized procedures, reducing risk. It captures and enforces skills and competency through a unified system, helping maintain compliance. And since tasks are guided and tracked, deviations are easier to catch and correct before they lead to safety incidents.
Can connected worker solutions integrate with existing systems?
Yes — Plex’s Connected Worker is built into our broader MES / Smart Manufacturing platform, so it can work alongside other factory and enterprise systems. Recent updates even enable interoperability with both Rockwell applications and third-party MES and ERP systems.
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