Plex Manufacturing Execution System (MES) by Rockwell Automation
Driving digital transformation with a cloud MES
Plex MES is designed to control the plant floor with full visibility into the product lifecycle, offering full connectivity to your ERP. Plex MES drives plant floor performance, reduces costs, and increases revenue and profit. Improve quality, mitigate risk, and enhance brand reputation with Plex MES.
Plex MES is designed to control the plant floor with full visibility into the product lifecycle, offering full connectivity to your ERP. Plex MES drives plant floor performance, reduces costs, and increases revenue and profit. Improve quality, mitigate risk, and enhance brand reputation with Plex MES.
Common problems affecting all these industries that the solution addresses are:
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Lack of digitization – too many manual or paper-based processes that create silos of error-prone data
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Lack of plant floor visibility – no real-time data on inventory, WIP, job and equipment status
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Lack of control of materials and finished goods
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Difficulty reacting to changes in demand and production priorities
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Lack of real-time visibility to plant floor KPIs
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Constant challenges with meeting quality needs, including time-consuming audits and recalls.
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Need a solution to manage production but face budgeting/ROI/implementation concerns
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Need to reduce scrap and downtime
Error-Proofed Production Control
Companies looking to mature their business through digitization can streamline production and accelerate growth.
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Increase productivity with intuitive control panel that digitally connects operators with everything they need (setup, work instructions, etc.) and collects data about everything they do.
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Increase throughput with error-proofed setups, quality checks, production recording, and scrap reason reporting.
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Paperless workflows driven by control plan with digital data collection, transfer, and storage
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Monitor critical operational KPIs for production throughput, uptime, quality, and the resulting OEE.
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Stay synced to your plan with dynamic dispatch connected to finite scheduling, Kanban, and operator control panel.
Real-time plant floor visibility
Gain visibility and control of materials and finished goods. React swiftly to changes in demand and production priorities. Complete recalls and audits in minutes, not days or hours.
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Know your work-in-progress (WIP) inventory position at any time with real-time track and trace of WIP material monitored by Plex.
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Reduce excess inventory and associated carrying costs to free up production capacity. Connect jobs, production scheduling, and due date with inventory to reduce stock-outs.
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Real-time manufacturing intelligence to stay informed of what’s been produced, what has not been produced (and why) and the overall production and machine efficiency.
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Support real-time asset performance management/monitoring to identify & reduce production bottlenecks, reduce equipment downtime and drive greater plant performance.
Quality/Compliance ease with single source of truth
Make audits a “non-event” with a single source, database-driven solution that links all transactions with relevant compliance documentation and traceability information from suppliers to customers.
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Problem-control methodologies inherent in the system enable identification of problems early and automatically with alerts.
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Reduce non-compliance risk and align to ISO and industry standards (e.g., APQP, IATF, FSMA, AS9100D) with built-in compliance module that simplifies audits.
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Streamline continuous improvement (CI) projects with built-in CI module to track status.
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Operationalize quality processes by enforcing compliance to digital control plans.
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Improve check sheet compliance with automatically presented check sheets per control plan frequency that require completion to continue production.
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Reduce scrap with real-time SPC monitoring, that alerts or shuts down machine if measurements trend out of spec.
Achieve operational excellence and drive results
Eliminate patchwork plant floor solutions with a world class MES that is a scalable, configurable cloud solution that integrates with your current ERP system.
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Easily connect with your ERP via purpose-built APIs complimented by a developer portal.
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Developer Portal enables customers to see, test, and enable APIs that will be used to pass data to and from the middleware solution, which in turn will exchange data with their ERP system.
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Support faster decision making, improved workflow, communication, and collaboration by extending manufacturing functionality beyond the desk to mobile devices located anywhere.
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Ensure accurate production performance metrics by digitally automating tasks like recording production or scrap.
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Complement with edge technology for production monitoring, automation and orchestration, and use IIoT technology for asset performance management.
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Monitor real-time production with dashboards to identify issues and drive OEE efficiency.
