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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
Platform
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.
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
Plex MES for Automotive
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3 SMART

STRATEGIES FOR

AUTOMOTIVE

SUPPLIERS

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Gain More Operational
Control of the Shop Floor

STRATEGY 1

Increased Productivity + Inventory Accuracy

= INCREASED CAPACITY

100%

Reduced inventory on-hand and doubled inventory turns for greater working capital.

Less Scrap and Waste + Operationalized Quality Compliance

= REDUCED COST

30%

Improved efficiency and reduced expedite and premium freight costs.

Built-in Automotive Processes + Continuous Improvement

= INCREASED BUSINESS

50%

Increased business without adding production personnel.

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03

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SMART AUTOMOTIVE

Gain Control with the Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform

Dramatically increase inventory turns. Reduce scrap with built-in error proofing. Reduce risk of non-compliance. Isolate and reduce the risk of recalls with end-to-end traceability.

“Paying premium freight used to be a huge expense for us. It amounted to about 0.7% of our total sales. With Plex, we’ve basically eliminated those costs in just two years, while achieving nearly 100% on-time delivery for our customers.”

EDUARDO ARANA
Deputy Managing Director
Eurotranciatura Mexico

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ACHIEVE

OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE

ON YOUR SHOP FLOOR

“Plex’s biggest strength is its ability to integrate our manufacturing plants in the United States and Mexico. We are considerably more efficient after integrating PLCs, allowing our operators to function with less manual interaction.”

SAM WINTZ
IT Manager
Batesville Tool & Die

“Plex’s document control system was instrumental in helping us get a perfect IATF score. The way our inventory controls are linked to controls within Plex is what made it easy for us to qualify.”

JEFF BENDER
Materials Manager
Coastal Automotive

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STRATEGY 2

Connect Your People, Processes, and Machines for End-to-End Visibility

CxOs

Executives rely on Plex for real-time data to drive faster, more confident decisions.

• Easily stand up or shutter plants for right-sourcing to meet changing demand

• Shorten cash-to-cash cycle with visibility to customer demand, production schedules, and dynamic costing.

• Mitgate the risk of recalls with accurate traceability information at your fingertips.

Operations

Uses Plex to understand costs, optimize schedules, and eliminate waste.

• Effectively launch more successful programs to respond to changing customer needs.

• Reduce the time and cost of customer compliance with a world class quality “operating system.”

• Quickly react to change with access to a single source of data at anytime from anywhere on any connected device.

Supply Chain Managers

Count on Plex for real-time information to better mitigate the risk of supply chain disruptions.

• Improve collaboration and visibility with a robust supplier portal (at no cost to your suppliers).

• Easily comply with EDI requirements with a solution that is built-in, not bolted on.

• Manage supplier quality by sharing access at no additional cost.

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The Benefits of End-to-

End Business Visibility

Align your business with manufacturing operations. Improve financial visibility to drive profitability. Enable more lean operations with a single source of truth. Improve quote win-loss ratios. Mitigate the risks of supply chain disruptions.

“Plex more effectively integrates and collaborates with our supplier base. Plex supplier portal helps us collaborate with suppliers to manage supplier container creation, labeling and shipments as well as supplier quality…”

MICHAEL TRATHEN

Sr. Manager VSM/Lean Systems

American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc

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PURPOSE-BUILT FOR

AUTOMOTIVE

MANUFACTURING

SUPPLIERS

“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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STRATEGY 3

Unleash the Power
and Flexibility of Smart
Manufacturing

No software to install or maintain + No downtime to install upgrades + Customer & Supplier Portals

= INFINITE SCALABILITY

IT-Enabled Business Improvement + Scalable, Extensible Cloud Platform + IT Data Analysts

= HIGHER VALUE FROM
IT INVESTMENTS

Subscription vs. Capital Expense + Included EDI, Labeling & Barcoding + Unlimited users, suppliers, & customers

= SIMPLE PRICING MODEL

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The Plex Smart
Manufacturing Platform
by the Numbers

Jagemann Stamping Company

saved $200,000 in IT costs.

Clips & Clamps

6 replaced systems with Plex. 0 upgrade costs.

Coastal Automotive

22 streamlined compliance audit time from

   DAYS to HOURS.

“If there is a quality issue, responses are fully integrated across the entire supply chain. Suppliers don’t have to enter their quality information into a separate system to develop their metrics.”

MIKE GERBER

IT Director

Fluid Routing Systems

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LOWER YOUR TOTAL

COST OF OWNERSHIP

“Because Plex delivers so much functionality right out of the box, we were able to eliminate a long list of purchased and homegrown systems when we went live. This will empower us to keep growing without burdening our IT staff in the future.”

MIKE ZUIDERVEEN
Senior Manager, IT
Motus Integrated Technologies

“Plex has simplified data gathering and data management at all levels of our enterprise, allowing savings in time and resources. We are no longer chasing data from one source to another. It is now readily available to help us make informed and proactive decisions.”

ARVEL WOOTEN
Organizational Development Specialist
Hatch Stamping Company

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ARE YOU READY TO RUN YOUR BUSINESS

SMARTER?

CONNECT

people, systems, machines, and supply chains

AUTOMATE

business processes

TRACK

data from the shop floor to the top floor

ANALYZE

what matters most and drive more informed decision making

The Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform helps automotive suppliers, like you, run an efficient business and deliver on customer demands.

Learn more at
www.plex.com/industries/automotive

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