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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.
Mobile Application
Access critical manufacturing data and controls from anywhere with our mobile apps.
Availability & Performance
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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Aerospace Auto and Tire Food & Beverage Industrial Manufacturing Plastics & Rubber Precision Metalforming
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Product and Program Management

One of the many Supply Chain Management (SCM) features you'll find on the Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform.
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Leverage a single source of product and program information to align customer demand, engineering and production.

Real-time data and consistent repeatable processes help you keep operations in sync.

Plex SCM Product & Program Management Capabilities

Synchronized Parts and Assemblies with CAD or PDM System
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Import digital product definition files to ensure that your production data is in sync with the latest design
  • Leverage bi-directional updates to computer aided design (CAD) and product data management (PDM) systems using partner integration to keep part, assembly, and process routing specifications up-to-date.
  • Import dimensions, tolerances, and metadata to populate process routings.
  • Import 3D CAD files for visualization using partner integration.
Real-Time Access to Customer Requirements, Part Specifications, and Process Routing
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Ensure that all team members can make decisions with confidence with secure and synchronized customer requirements and documentation

Create and maintain a master list of products and purchased materials, including all associated data, such as process routings, bills of materials (BOMs), and multi-out production configurations. Link part information anywhere it is needed, allowing users to link back to a single source. Set up and manage process routings to define the operations and sequencing. Display bills-of-materials in multiple ways for any assembly by referencing parts, components, or ingredients from the central database.

With Plex, you can access documentation securely from the document control system (DCS), which maintains the latest revision information. Link the proper revision of documents throughout Plex with the universal attachment system to ensure everyone is working on the correct revision. Set up standard master pricing and cross-customer pricing information that is based on volume discounts or other user-selected parameters. Manage flexible commission payment structure by salesperson.

Material Specifications Management
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Maintain specific specifications for raw materials

Set up your receiving system to be optimized for metallic raw materials. Define detailed chemical specification templates for steel, aluminum, and other metals, and validate the chemistry and physical characteristics of incoming materials against engineering specifications. Create inventory records and barcoded labels for each inventory unit received.

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Ensure that everyone is working on the proper product effective revision control in documentation and processes

Submit engineering change requests (ECR) leveraging the platform’s customizable workflow system to route changes for required approvals. Track the process of ECRs and define the effectivity as to when a change is to be implemented. Maintain all versions of documentation securely forever.

Drive Standard Processes for Continuous Improvement
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Maintain visibility of program progress with easy tracking and reporting on tasks, schedules, and production

Set up and manage a list of projects and programs, including all pertinent facts and activities about each program, and track and manage multiple phases. Include suppliers, customers, or partners in programs, incorporating their activity and giving them visibility into each phase’s progress.

Plex Supply Chain Product And Program Capabilities
  • "Before Plex, we were often in danger of overestimating our inventory and shortshipping a customer, or underestimating inventory and building more product unnecessarily. Getting accurate inventory has had a huge effect on our bottom line."

    Jeff Bender - Materials Manager, Coastal Automotive
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  • "Plex is one of the few systems that we found helps us put in so much information that we can use to make better decisions about our business."

    Jeff Lehman - President, Shank's Extracts
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  • “We felt Plex was a much better fit for us because it is designed specifically for manufacturers.”

    Paul Wright - Senior Vice President of IT and CIO, Accuride
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