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Drive Continuous Improvement with Real-time Production Visibility
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  • Manufacturing Execution System
  • Production Monitoring
  • Quality Management System
  • Asset Performance Management
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Turn Real-Time Plant Floor Insights into Action

Ever wonder what you could accomplish with real-time visibility of your plant floor? With a clear view of your operation and actionable production data, you can set your sights on driving results, efficiencies and improvements. Plex Production Monitoring software in the cloud makes it possible – no hardware or customized software is required. See what else is possible with seamless connectivity to machines.

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See how you can maximize uptime and throughput to make faster, more confident decisions with Plex Production Monitoring. Drive continuous improvements using transparent, real-time operational KPIs.


Get the Most Out of Your Plant Floor Data

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Get started quickly

Fast-track your production visibility and time-to-value with this out-of-the-box software solution.

Optimize performance

Improve production and reduce downtime with real-time, accurate visibility of operational metrics.

Drive continuous improvement

Harness actionable insights to improve production behavior and deliver on-going value.


Key Capabilities: Reach New Levels of Performance

From empowering operators to resolve issues and communicate improvements, to being able to increase efficiency and maximize throughput, Plex Production Monitoring can unleash new levels of performance in your operation.

The production whiteboard has been a time-tested visual management staple on plant floors for years. But the manual nature of the whiteboard is prone to human error and becomes outdated before the ink even dries.

With Plex Production Monitoring, you can easily set up and leverage user-friendly dashboards and scoreboards to display real-time production measures including cycle times, capacity utilization, and OEE. This is when production monitoring stops being just a process and becomes the swiss army knife that gets you to your goals.

Take your production whiteboard to the next level with:

  • Rapid implementation with the ability to easily connect to any hardware
  • Closed-loop system connected to the plant floor that measures productivity and other equipment KPIs in real time
  • Production visualization that improves downtime, OEE performance, and job performance over time
  • Measurements like production cycles, job metrics, quality, downtime, scrap, and machine status Plex Production Monitoring Capabilities
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Use Cases for Improving Industrial Performance
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Use Cases for Improving Industrial Performance

In this Article “Five High Impact Use cases for improving Industrial performance” you will learn how industrial analytics transform your business with valuable insights.  

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Businesses thrive when the top floor is connected to the shop floor. Industrial analytics has a huge role to play in generating insights at the device, equipment, line, plant, and enterprise levels.

If you’re wondering what this could look like in your business, check out these proven, high impact use cases to get an idea. This article can also help form a solid foundation for engaging stakeholders, establishing a common vision for change, and co-creating organizational value. Use cases highlight the impact of analytics on: 

  • Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
  • Yield optimization
  • Asset performance management
  • Condition-based monitoring
  • Energy management

Plex Production Monitoring in Action

10%
Increase in production efficiency across plant floor
$1M+
Revenue savings from employee suggestions
15%
Decrease in machine downtime

Unlocking Opportunities to Drive Improvement

Optimizing production efficiency and continuous improvement are critical to manufacturing success. Doing it well means collecting accurate data in real time and making it actionable. Plex Production Monitoring makes this possible by delivering transparent, real-time operational KPIs to drive continuous improvements. Here are 5 steps to start unlocking opportunities with Plex Production Monitoring:

  1. Rally the Troops. Identify your core team. These champions will be responsible for defining the vision of how production monitoring becomes a jumping off point for Smart Manufacturing in a way that works for their needs.
  2. Identify Your Biggest Pain Points. Start pragmatically with one line, area, or process within your business that causes the most headaches.
  3. Target Your KPIs. What matters most to you? Is it improved production cycles, less downtime or scrap, or improved quality? Determine what you will use to define success and be open to new measurements.
  4. Start Monitoring. Connect to your existing machines and equipment to close the loop in your production cycle. Once you are connected and gain real time visibility, you’ve unleashed your potential.
  5. Keep Checking In. After gaining initial results, the job is not done. Use those metrics to your advantage for on-going efficiencies and continuous improvement.

What Problems Does Plex Production Monitoring Solve?

Your resources are limited. Your time grows more valuable by the second. But if you’re like many manufacturers, you’re still struggling with the challenges below. If greater throughput and reducing costs is your end game, Plex Production Monitoring can help.

  1. Can’t Identify the Root of Problems. It’s not always obvious where or why bottlenecks occur. Many manufacturers still struggle to track and analyze data, but that’s what it takes to achieve continuous improvement.
  2. Manual Efforts Drain Your Resources. Repetitive data entry processes are tedious, time consuming, and costly. Not to mention the fact they cause errors and take your focus off more important tasks.
  3. Visibility Is Murky at Best. You want to excel past your expectations and targets. But there’s no easy way to get there without a contextual and real-time view of how production is running.

How Can a Cloud Solution 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.

Cut costs

Streamline operations to reduce the time it takes to make each product, decrease downtime, and minimize waste.

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.


Technology and automation are driving the next generation of manufacturing. Leading organizations are harnessing the cloud to transform the way they work – and you can too by:

  • Accelerating innovation with access to new insights and the ability to collaborate with ease and try new things quicker and at a lower cost
  • Increasing agility by being able to deploy quickly and pivot with ease to meet fluctuating demands
  • Scaling on-demand by easily adding or removing compute power and users to reduce time to value

With Software as a Service (SaaS), the benefits of the cloud have never been more accessible. Explore what's possible with the cloud in manufacturing and start planning your journey today!

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