Aligning Manufacturing Goals | Rockwell Automation | Plex

With understanding and common goals for the outcome, you can focus

on a solution that fully connects your manufacturing enterprise.

Your buying groups have common goals for this process

How to build consensus for success

ALIGNING MANUFACTURING GOALS

A TEAM EFFORT TOWARD

CONNECTED MANUFACTURING

KEY STAKEHOLDERS

Drive full connectivity

among systems and teams

Realize total data and

production visibility

To meet these goals, each group must take specic actions

Document and

communicate your

group's needs;

collaborate and align

with peer groups

FOCUS AREAS

Improving resource productivity

Managing inventory, job scheduling and quality assurance

Satisfying customer expectations

CHALLENGES

Finding appropriately skilled people

Delivering quality to satisfy customer demands and regulatory

compliance

Leveraging real-time data to support decision making

Finding intuitive and user-friendly systems

THE NEED FOR CONNECTED MANUFACTURING

With access to enterprise-wide data and tools needed for production

control, the operations team will find opportunities to be leaner and

more responsive to ever-changing customer demands.

FOCUS AREAS

Profitability and growth

Meticulous revenue and cost management

Robust, responsive and predictable supply chains

Holistic, enterprise-wide planning

CHALLENGES

Outdated and error-prone manual tools like spreadsheets

Reconciling data from disparate systems with different file

formats in order to produce accurate, reliable reports

Lack of visibility to supply chain and production operations

THE NEED FOR CONNECTED MANUFACTURING

User access to enterprise-wide data enables holistic visibility across

the business to make better, more informed decisions.

FOCUS AREAS

Security, performance, accessibility, and reliability of IT

infrastructure

Serving internal and external customer needs for data reporting

and analytics

Automating and streamlining business and operational processes

CHALLENGES

Time-consuming software maintenance and updates

Keeping up with IT trends and new technology

Stretching budgets to meet company needs

Safeguarding current investments

THE NEED FOR CONNECTED MANUFACTURING

With manufacturing software delivered and managed in the cloud, you

free up IT resources that can now address other high-value needs like

data analysis and business process improvement.

See how Plex can be your expert resource for your connected manufacturing

journey with the Denitive Guide to Connected Manufacturing at

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On average, there are

6.8 inuencers

involved in a

technology purchase

Buyers give up on

purchasing a software

solution

39%

of the time,

frustrated and overwhelmed

as they attempt to get

everyone to agree

Agree on milestones

and gate reviews to

work through before

proceeding to the

next phase

Convert points of

disconnect to points

of alignment

Increase quality and

production efficiency

MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS TEAM

BUSINESS MANAGEMENT TEAM

TECHNICAL STAFF

Choosing a new software system in the rapidly changing manufacturing

landscape is complex and confusing, with many stakeholders to satisfy.