DRIVE THE DIGITAL PLANT FORWARD WITH MANUFACTURING AUTOMATION

May 6, 2021

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Meet the Plex Team

Tony Kaczmarek
VP Product Management

Michael Hart
Director of Product Strategy

Brian Gillespie
Director of IIoT Solutions

Plex & Mach2 – A seamless fit 20 years in the making!

• Installed base of nearly 200 plants
• Mature product
• Rich features & APIs
• Excitement from community, customers, analysts
• We hit the ground running – maintaining existing customers and adding new sites

Plex & Mach2

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Additional Improvements Planned

Benefits of being on the inside – Joined efforts to improve:

• New APIs
• User Interface enhancements
• Simplification/unification of APIs and functionality
• New features and platform capabilities
• Production Monitoring solution

Customer Efficiencies

Existing customers

• Synchronization of commercial terms
• Implementation, professional service, support, subscription all under Plex
• Simplification of packaging
• Support through standard Plex

New customers

• Standard solution for shop floor integration - no more guesswork
• Rapid implementation and ROI with robust “out of the box” functionality
• Powerful low-code environment for easier scaling and management
• Joining a mature community with peers, resources, best practices

Accelerate Industry 4.0 and Digital Transformation

Manufacturer Pains

Old, non-networked equipment Manual processes High employee turnover

Negative Results

Complex solutions High costs and waste Production inefficiency

Mach2 Provides

Cost-effective turnkey solution Process, data automation Contextualization with Plex

Turnkey Solution for Manufacturers of Any Size

Mach2 is an integration software platform that interacts with your plant floor machines and systems to provide real-time usable, actionable information.

• Bi-directional data communication that extends Plex MES and IIoT to the edge

• Democratizes Industry 4.0 and IIoT with templated, turnkey solution for the masses

• On-ramp to Smart Manufacturing with production monitoring that focuses on key operational metrics

• Out-of-the-box solution to empower automation and unleash operators

o Day 1 value with a rapid implementation for automated production recording, machine status, OEE

o Day 2+ value customers extend the solution to more machines, automate quality, lineside labeling

• Low-code design for extensibility and ease-of-use to solve your unique plant floor challenges

On-ramp to Smart Manufacturing

Provide on-ramp to Smart Manufacturing

Turnkey solution that lowers the barrier to full MES solution

OOB solution captures data and provides real-time visibility and monitoring of production process.

Expand and Automate MES/IIoT

Real-time contextualized data collection and alerts

Integrated solution turns machines into users and creates fail-safe mechanism to prevent process defects

Deliver Extensibility​ Toolset

Flexible toolset solves key business challenges​

Low-code solution works in concert with Plex MES & IIoT to solve unique challenges

PLEX SMART MANUFACTURING PLATFORM

Connected by a Modern Cloud

CONNECT ― AUTOMATE ― TRACK ― ANALYZE

Manufacturing Execution Suite (MES)

Manufacturing Automation

Quality Management System (QMS)

Supply Chain Planning (SCP)

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

MANUFACTURING ANALYTICS

PLEX SMART MANUFACTURING PLATFORM

Data Platform
• APIs
• Developer Portal
• EDI
• Reporting

INTEGRATION LAYER

External Systems and Applications

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Mach2

Data Entry to Plex

• Machines are users
• Automated
• Unleashes operators from tedious data entry
• 24x7x365
• Accurate

Control

Shop Floor Execution

• Automated setup
• Error proofing
• Lineside labeling
• Operators making parts
• Real-time scoreboards

Mach2 Rollout and Expansion

• NO CODE!
• Mach2 is a toolset
• Kors uses toolset to build out-of-the-box product
• 2-day training class
• “Hand over the keys”
• Visual logic layer
• Multiple screen building options
• Unlimited possibilities!

Mach2: We Speak Machine

Day 1

Mach2: We Speak Machine

Day 1

Mach2: We Speak Machine

Day 1

Mach2: We Speak Machine

Day 1

Mach2: We Speak Machine

Day 1

Mach2: We Speak Machine

Day 1

Mach2–“Day 1 & Day 2+”

Day 2

Plex & Mach2

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A call to action

• Lift to full shop floor integration is smaller / easier than most manufacturers anticipate

• You likely have prerequisites and a footprint to take advantage of Plex Mach2

‒ Plex ERP/MES/Quality‒ IT/OT Network‒ Server‒ Networkable equipment or low cost IoT devices‒ Labor resource (not a coder) –flowchart Visio type development

• Rapid deployment / lost cost deployment, phased approach (Newman/Thai/Hatch)

• Low-cost sensors, wireless networks, cloud, etc. = democratized access to technology and manufacturing innovation

Mach2 Extends Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform to the Edge

Integration and Enablement

Capabilities

Applications                Workflow               Visualizations

Data Connectivity and Normalization

Modern Sensors & Controllers

Custom Protocols & Drivers

Modern Communications Protocols

Industrial Automation

Robotics

CNCs

SCADA

1. Workcenter Setup
2. Quality/Checksheet Automation
3. Lineside labeling
4. Production Automation
5. Serial number tracking
6. Weigh Scale or other peripheral Integration
7. Scrap adjustments
8. Asset genealogy

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cloud

edge

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Q&A

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Brian Gillespie

bgillespie@plex.com

248.221.2566

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