IN THE AGE OF SMART
MANUFACTURING
Reframe digital transformation as business transformation for a new competitive advantage
You are the go-to
leader for critical
decisions
Reactive mode is not sustainable, no matter how good you are. It takes a new approach to give you the opportunity to be proactive. To forecast, plan, and grow. It takes a real-time solution. One that records what’s happening in production and makes it available immediately. One that delivers data about different activities – inventory, quality, labor, or production – in a single context to provide a clearer picture of any situation, even as it changes in real time.
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Plex helps you make
manufacturing decisions
with confidence and speed
Do more than just keep up with the competition. Use Plex to change your management perspective, get agile, and get ahead.
Grow revenue as you attract new business
Improve customer retention and acquisition
Achieve world-class production efficiency as you enhance overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and reduce defects
Improve forecasting and capacity
Increase your Return on Assets (ROA)
Increase audit performance as you improve time, cost, quality, and other factors
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Using Plex drives
performance
With Plex, you benefit from having transparency in all aspects of your business. That means easy access to real-time reports and intuitive dashboards. Plex delivers up-to-the-minute visibility into what’s actually happening with production, making it easier to gain — and retain — control. And that’s when the operational efficiencies roll in.
• Enforce operational behavior with online work instructions and built-in error-proofing
• Keep assets producing as much as possible through preventive maintenance and real-time production monitoring
• See common inventory, resource, and maintenance issues ahead of time
• Commit to promise dates more confidently and adjust priorities as required, thanks to sophisticated scheduling tools
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Gaining Best-in-
Class Cybersecurity
Protection
COMPANY: Accuride International, Inc.
Tier 1 supplier of commercial vehicle wheels and wheel end solutions.
INDUSTRY: Automotive
• Hardware reqs now completed in 30 minutes (it used to take days)
• Inventory ships in only 3 hours
• 10% expected gain in supply chain productivity
“Plex has played a huge role in helping us to consolidate and transform the performance of our business, making us a super-efficient manufacturer across our product range. Our customers are happy, we have secured our place in the market and our bottom line is healthy.”
Paul Wright | Chief Information Officer and SVP, Information Technology,
Accuride International, Inc.
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CASE STUDY
Using Plex to optimize
employee retention
and safety
As a manager, you already know that people are your primary resource. Keeping your employees productive and safe is a never-ending effort. With that in mind, Plex features a human capital management solution. Managers like you rely on Plex to keep workers motivated and engaged every day. After all, having the right people — who are using the right tools — makes all the difference.
• Ensure that only trained operators are working on specific work centers and products
• Reduce safety incidents as you increase productivity
• Increase knowledge retention by using a single-source-of-truth system for all employees
• Decrease onboarding costs and ramp-up time
• Improve your financial performance
• Track hours and see vacation schedules
• Use the employee portal as a platform for feedback and suggestions
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Enabling real-
time visibility and
decision-making
CASE STUDY
“We knew we needed to have something more interactive, something off-premises, and most importantly, something that we didn’t have to manage every day, and Plex was the best fit for us.”
Ron Rapson| President, Sanders
COMPANY:
Sanders National brand featuring premium chocolates using original recipes since 1875.
INDUSTRY:
Confections
• Real-time date reporting
• End-to-end visibility from production to shipping
• Traceability that simplifies compliance
Using Plex to enable
manufacturing
transformation
This is the next-level agility you’ve been looking for. Plex makes faster, data-driven decisions the norm, leading to continuous improvement that accommodates changing needs. And one good, productive, connected, transformative thing leads to another. With Plex, you’ll improve performance in real time as you say goodbye to the errors of manual, paper-based processes.
• Integrate data across every level and every location
• Access your data any time, from anywhere, on any device
• Rely on a single source of truth for your information
• Get a clear view of your resources to more effectively manage capacity and inventory
• Quickly respond to changing customer demands, unplanned downtime, and unscheduled absenteeism
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CASE STUDY
Implementing the
system of the future
COMPANY: Ralco Industries Automotive supplier specializing in welded assemblies, metal stamping, design, tooling, and prototyping.
INDUSTRY: Precision Metalforming
• 60% reduction of scrap rates
• 15% reduction of inventory on hand
• 20% reduction of freight costs, expediting nearly eliminated
• Payback in less than a year through dramatically reduced inventory
“We get more advantage from Plex than we could with SAP or a similar system. This is the system of the future. Any company looking to outperform its competition and invest for the future will find its way to Plex.”
Jim Piper | President, Ralco
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With change
comes
opportunity
Control performance, connect people, and increase efficiencies. Plex is a future-proofed tool that enables laser-focused precision and leaves guesstimates in the dust. That’s how leading plant and operations managers are using the Plex Smart Manufacturing PlatformTM — as a digital system of record that delivers real-time visibility and world-class production efficiency.
Connect people, systems, machines, and supply chains
Track data from the shop floor to the top floor
Use anaylytics for unmatched visibility
Reduce errors for higher quality and control
Performance. People. Digital Transformation. Imagine managing with Plex.
Get your demo at
www.plex.com/demo
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