Plex Systems Announces Modularization of its Smart Manufacturing Platform to Scale with Business Needs
June 09 2022 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Approach Enables Companies to Flexibly Shape
their Digital Transformation Journey with Plex Cloud-native
Platform
Plex Systems, a Rockwell Automation company and a leader in
cloud-delivered smart manufacturing solutions, today announced a
new modularization approach for its Smart Manufacturing Platform to
enable accessibility and scalability for digital transformation in
manufacturing. This approach, enabled by Plex’s innovative
cloud-native platform, more closely aligns with customers’ needs as
they build their smart manufacturing technology strategy, including
a focus on flexibility, quick implementation, and ease of entry
with a path to grow.
With Plex, manufacturers can start their digital transformation
in a number of ways. For example, they can initially implement
quality management (QMS) or manufacturing execution (MES) systems –
common entry points for most manufacturers – and from there add
capabilities, such as production monitoring, asset performance
management, or supply chain planning. With this approach, companies
pick the starting point that best meets their needs and then can
scale into additional connected solutions over time. Plex uniquely
enables new capabilities to simply be activated versus “installed”
and for data and governance rules to flow seamlessly throughout the
system.
Three examples of the new modular solutions include:
- New Product Introduction and Management: Maximize profitability
and increase competitive position by reducing time to market and
decreasing development costs. Companies can manage the product and
program lifecycle – from concept to completion – and effectively
track new and existing products, including updates, retirement, and
obsolescence.
- Labor and Workforce Management: Optimize labor schedule and
costs while preserving delivery schedules through effective labor
management, clear skills-to-required production capabilities,
reduction of onboarding time, and programs for employee health and
safety.
- Advanced Quality: Proactively manage supplier quality and
compliance with integrated continuous improvement toolsets and
extend quality processes throughout the full supply chain to
promote a holistic quality culture both inside and outside the four
walls of the organization.
“Plex was built from the ground up for manufacturers with
flexibility and scalability in mind, as evidenced by our
cloud-first multi-tenant architecture. Modularization takes this a
step further with numerous starting points for companies at any
stage to begin or expand their digital transformation journey,”
said Nathan Pieri, chief product officer and vice president,
applications, Rockwell Automation. “We took an outside-in look at
understanding customer challenges and aligned our approach to help
them manage their entire lifecycle and deliver positive business
outcomes every step of the way. By providing manufacturers with
easier points of entry and an elastic building block approach,
companies can focus on their immediate Industry 4.0 transformation
needs with options to add more capabilities as they need them, all
seamlessly within our secure manufacturing cloud.”
"This approach solves a major need for manufacturers, addressing
prioritized pain points immediately while providing a simple path
to broader capabilities as needed. Plex is distinctive in its
multi-tenant SaaS approach, enabling modular capability expansion
without complicated integrations," said Reid Paquin, Research
Director at IDC.
“The new modular approach, from production monitoring to full
ERP and everything in between, ensures we can help customers
quickly solve their most pressing pain points with one, many or all
of our innovative smart manufacturing solutions, meeting them where
their needs are and supporting them as they grow,” commented Ron
Pascuzzi, chief customer officer, Plex Systems. “Plex’s
customer-led approach to our product strategy is affirmed by
offering a fast path to start their digital transformation
journey.”
Plex is a cloud pioneer that uniquely offered its innovative QMS
and MES capabilities as part of its ERP solution in a multi-tenant
SaaS environment for over twenty years. This modular approach
demonstrates the unparalleled flexibility available with a cloud
solution and gives manufacturers the ability to continue to
implement all these capabilities at once or compose the solution
they need with seamless scale.
Attendees of ROKLive, a Rockwell Automation and Plex Systems
event taking place in Orlando, Florida, June 13 to 16, can learn
more about and see these advancements in action in the expo and
demo hall.
About Plex Systems
Plex Systems, Inc., a Rockwell Automation Company, is a leader
in cloud-delivered smart manufacturing solutions, empowering the
world's manufacturers to make awesome products. Our platform gives
manufacturers the ability to connect, automate, track, and analyze
every aspect of their business to drive transformation. The Plex
Smart Manufacturing Platform includes solutions for MES, ERP,
quality, supply chain planning and management, asset performance
management, production monitoring, process automation and analytics
to connect people, systems, machines and supply chains, enabling
them to lead with precision, efficiency and agility. To learn more,
visit www.plex.com.
About Rockwell Automation
Rockwell Automation, Inc, (NYSE: ROK), is a global leader in
industrial automation and digital transformation. We connect the
imaginations of people with the potential of technology to expand
what is humanly possible, making the world more productive and more
sustainable. Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Rockwell
Automation employs approximately 25,000 problem solvers dedicated
to our customers in more than 100 countries. To learn more about
how we are bringing the Connected Enterprise to life across
industrial enterprises, visit www.rockwellautomation.com.
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