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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.
FactoryTalk ResilientEdge
Execution foundation for Plex MES that is designed to promote production continuity, while accelerating enterprise scalability and performance.
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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THE PLEX SMART MANUFACTURING PLATFORM

SMART BY
DEFINITION.

Connect, Automate, Track, and Analyze Everything in Your Business with the Plex Smart Manufacturing PlatformTM

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Put tomorrow’s tools in your handstoday.

Smart Manufacturing

is the intelligent, real-time orchestration and optimization of business, physical, and digital processes within factories and across the entire value chain. Resources and processes are automated, integrated, monitored, and continuously evaluated based on all available information as close to real-time as possible.

We’ve listened to manufacturers and understand the challenges they deal with every day. We deliver smart manufacturing solutions that make real-world improvements now with innovations that will define your future.

Connect and share all data — from production to financials
— digitally and accurately

Deliver real-time inventory visibility and end manual cycle
counting

Plan, forecast, and scale to reduce expedites and buffer stock

Control quality and eliminate out-of-spec production

Predict equipment malfunction before failure

“Having real-time information on every aspect of our business is what’s enabling us to reduce our inventory holdings, better track our finished goods, and much more.”

- Garn Evans, Vice President of IT, Motus Integrated Technologies

Manufacturing is more dynamic than ever. And you can’t build tomorrow’s products with yesterday’s tools. That’s why forward-thinking companies rely on smart manufacturing to deliver transformative change.

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What it means to
run your business
with Plex.

Plex makes the core tenets of smart manufacturing possible. And we do it by meeting smart manufacturing’s primary, non-negotiable requirement: Having the ability to connect, automate, track, and analyze all aspects of your business.

The Plex Smart Manufacturing PlatformTM is a digital system of record and engagement that connects people, systems, machines, and supply chains; automates business; tracks data from the plant floor to the top floor; and delivers analytics for unmatched visibility, quality, and control.

The Plex Smart Manufacturing
PlatformTM

The Plex Smart Manufacturing PlatformTM focuses on the most pressing and challenging needs of manufacturers.

• A proven, cloud-native smart manufacturing solution, originally built by plant floor employees
• Uniquely built to serve discrete and process manufacturers from single plants to diverse global locations
• Available fully integrated with all capabilities to run your entire enterprise, or with application modularity
• Delivered as a superior out-of-the-box experience that minimizes complexity and cost

CONNECT

ANALYZE

AUTOMATE

TRACK

Built natively in the cloud, the Plex Smart Manufacturing PlatformTM eliminates data silos and consolidates all company, customer, and production data into one source of truth. Plex offers a complete digital top floor to plant floor solution while also providing the flexibility for individual applications like Plex MES or Plex QMS to complement your existing enterprise solutions.

With a fully digital, connected system, manufacturers can automate changes across the enterprise — all in real time – and replace paper-based or manual activities like production recording and data entry. On the top floor, this translates to automated communications, sign offs, automatic shipping notifications (ASNs), and billing without manual slowdowns. On the plant floor, Plex drives quality specifications and can stop production immediately if something isn’t right, eliminating errors and lowering your risk.

Analytics enable manufacturers to make informed, rapid, and accurate decisions. Now, each group or team member has the data they need in real time. Plex takes the guesswork out of the business, so you can pinpoint issues, establish trends, and quickly generate the views and reports needed to do the job.

Connected, automated tracking capabilities deliver the control and visibility needed to lower costs through right-sizing inventory, measuring productivity, identifying asset performance and maintenance issues before they arise, and error-proofing production setup to ensure alignment before production begins. With the right information at your fingertips, it’s easier to mitigate recall exposure and simplify audits.

“With the improvements we’ve made through Plex, we now see ourselves as manufacturing leaders. We’re a tier-one supplier to the electric vehicle industry, and with that comes an expectation of highly productive processes and high-performing products. Plex plays a crucial role in enabling us to create value for our customers.”

- Eduardo Arana, Deputy Managing Director, Eurotranciatura Mexico

What the Plex Smart Manufacturing PlatformTM is:

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What the
Plex Smart
Manufacturing
Platform
TM
does
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Delivers data from all of your plants and all of your machines into a simple, consolidated view
accessible to all employees
•
Eliminates the need for paper with digital, easily shareable information so you can make data-
driven decisions
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Provides integral quality management, electronic data interchange (EDI), material track-and-trace
trees, and barcode scanning capabilities
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Adapts and scales elastically to both expected and unexpected business changes
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Ensures confidence and reliability with industry-leading security and uptime
CONNECT
AUTOMATE
TRACK
ANALYZE
Manufacturing
Execution Suite
(MES)
Manufacturing
Automation
Supply Chain
Planning (SCP)
Quality Management
System (QMS)
MANUFACTURING ANALYTICS
PLEX SMART MANUFACTURING PLATFORM
TM
Data Platform • APIs • Developer Portal • EDI • Reporting • Mobility • Security​
INTEGRATION LAYER
EXTERNAL SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS
Enterprise Resource
Planning (ERP)
“Plex is our culture and it‘s a growth tool for
our company.”
- Scott Hankamp, Operations Manager,
A&K Finishing
Built to succeed.
Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform
TM
applications are
designed to manage any aspect of your enterprise.
Choose individual applications for quick time to value,
or a fully integrated out-of-the-box solution.
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Reduce costs and increase profitability by
automating tasks, preventing errors, and driving
in-line quality.
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Drive plant performance and revenue growth with a
real-time view of your entire production lifecycle.
•
Mitigate risk and protect brand reputation for both
you and your customers with traceability and
operations monitoring.
•
Drive performance from top floor to plant floor
using a single system with integral ERP, MES,
and quality.
•
Gain a holistic view into your business by
managing your financial, operational, and IT
strategies for end-to end production and supply
chain control.
•
Use function-specific templates that shorten the
path between gathering data and taking action.
•
Access your data anywhere, anytime and manage
your business on the go whether looking at a
plant floor screen, operational report, or financial
dashboard.
•
View high-resolution operational data in context of
your business to help continuously improve areas
you may not have surfaced before.
•
Automate processes, orchestrate workflows, and
control information flow to add efficiency, lower
costs, and eliminate manual errors.
•
Connect to machines on the plant floor and
visualize transparent, real-time operational KPIs to
drive continuous improvements.
•
Proactively monitor machine and plant health
to ensure optimal uptime, throughput, and
maintenance needs.
•
Automate quality with in-line measurement and
validation.
•
Integrate industry standards into your quality
processes.
•
Standardize, digitize, and automate quality
documentation, processes, and measurements.
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Forecast and proactively optimize your inventory.
•
Plan demand with agility and data-driven insight to
empower cross-functional demand plans.
•
Unify and coordinate all demand and supply
planning activities with your financial and strategic
objectives.
Manufacturing Execution System (MES)/
Manufacturing Operations Management
(MOM)
Manufacturing Automation
Quality Management System (QMS)
DemandCaster Supply Chain Planning
(SCP)
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Manufacturing Analytics
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A defining moment for manufacturing. And your company.

Plex is dedicated to making your move to smart manufacturing just that— smart. We’re committed to lowering your risk at every turn. With 99.9% uptime, the cloud-native Plex Smart Manufacturing TM is industry-leading. We maintain a class “A” security rating from SecurityScoreCard.com, relentlessly outperforming the market. And we’ve eliminated the need for forced upgrades, instead providing product updates in real-time across all of your departments and locations.

Beyond the cloud, we know that people and partnerships matter, too. That’s why Plex Customer Success & Services (CSS) is laser-focused on not only maximizing the value you get from your Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform TM investment, but also minimizing the time to realize that value.

The Top 5 Reasons Our Customers Choose Plex

1. Because we always put our customers first.
2. Because we are a ‘central nervous system’ of smart manufacturing operations.
3. Because we know manufacturing like the back of our work gloves.
4. Because we have a proven solution dedicated to continuous innovation.
5. Because we’re built to scale for today and tomorrow.

“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, CIO and Senior Vice President of Technology, Accuride Corporation

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STARTED?

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