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Cloud MES software: Take control of your shop floor
Plex is an elastic MES software solution that provides real-time, paperless production management to drive enterprise-wide compliance, quality, and efficiency.
With Plex MES, you’ll gain control of your plant floor with a comprehensive view of your entire production lifecycle and full connectivity to your ERP and third party external systems. You’ll easily automate tasks, help prevent errors, drive in-line quality, and synch up the top floor with the plant floor. The result? Less risk, higher quality, happier customers and a healthier bottom line.
Plex MES offers the flexibility and capabilities required to pave the way to autonomous operations. Key capabilities include:
- Production finite scheduling to determine which jobs to schedule to which work centers, with resource availability in mind
- Close-loop quality management to maintain quality procedures directly from the control plan for increased process repeatability and predictability
- Inventory management to track and manage your inventory in real time, and stay in control with end-to-end traceability
- Production management to make the right quantity of the right product at the right time for improved overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)
- Connected Worker to enhance workforce productivity through intuitive digital Work Instructions and advanced technologies that enable real-time operator guidance, reduce errors and streamline task execution and training
How can cloud MES software transform your operations?
Drive better visibility
Gather real-time and accurate material and traceability data to make sure that your production is always running smoothly.
Accelerate time to value
Streamline operations through rapid deployment, flexible configuration, and real-time production insights—accelerating time-to-value from day one.
Increase productivity
Choreograph production processes directly from the control plan to shorten cycle times and improve efficiency. Eliminate manual process errors with paperless operator control.
When it comes to meeting the increasing demands and complexity of today’s world, traditional manufacturing execution systems (MES) don’t cut it. Plex MES is built to be elastic with capabilities that expand beyond traditional MES functionality. As a single-instance, multi-tenant edge-to-cloud SaaS production platform, Plex connects people and systems, automates processes, tracks data from end to end, and captures and analyzes information like never before. Explore what makes Plex a truly elastic MES solution that can meet you where you are today with a modular architecture, scale across locations with a simple platform and help unlock autonomous operations.
The Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform
With Plex Systems, we are accelerating the transformation of industrial operations with advanced capabilities in MES, supply chain, and quality with a cloud-based application to drive operational efficiency.
The Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform™ was born on the plant floor and is purpose built for smarter manufacturing—today and tomorrow. In a single digital system of record and engagement, Plex makes it possible for manufacturers to reach new levels of visibility, quality, and control throughout their operation.
Connect
people, systems, machines and supply chains
Automate
business processes to boost efficiency
Track
data from the plant floor to the top floor
Analyze
what matters most and drive more informed decision-making
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Plex: A truly elastic MES
Manufacturers are caught between unprecedented external pressures and compelling opportunities for innovation and organizations can’t just think about their present needs but also be ready to adapt to rapid innovation. As an elastic MES solution, Plex MES has key qualities that modern manufacturers need to future-proof their organizations:
- Purpose-built for manufacturing Industries: Tailored for discrete, hybrid, and regulated industries, confirming compliance, traceability, and security
- Comprehensive capabilities beyond traditional MES: A multi-tenant Software as a Service (SaaS) environment with embedded AI technology to guide manufacturers along their autonomous operations journey
- Unified OT/IT integration: Seamless connectivity delivers holistic visibility and stronger business resiliency
- Extensible by design: A secure, resilient platform designed to integrate with existing systems and leverage emerging technologies like AI
- Resilient edge-to-cloud deployment: Flexible options from cloud-only to hybrid configurations to fit each site’s operational needs
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Why cloud-based MES?
Where and how MES software should run has always been a key consideration, with a trend toward cloud-based MES on the one hand and the adoption of edge computing to reduce latency and improve local processing on the other. Certainly, edge computing has allowed MES systems to move closer to the shop floor and exercise greater direct control over machines.
But with an elastic MES like Plex, you don’t have to choose. With a resilient edge-to-cloud execution layer, an elastic MES delivers continuous operations by processing data locally while seamlessly synchronizing with the cloud for enterprise-wide visibility and control. This real-time, unified data foundation enables AI-driven insights and sets the path toward autonomous, self-optimizing manufacturing.
Plex MES supports both cloud and edge environments providing the agility of cloud-native solutions with the control and security of traditional systems:
- Great alternative or compliment to customized MES
- Robust MES/MOM, with extensions to ERP, Supply Chain, and APM
- Modern, multi-tenant, versionless software at scale
- Quick to configure and deploy, updated by operators or machines
- Focus on analysts and business outcomes over programming
- Software and service price competitive
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