Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform

Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform

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About Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform

Built around the pillars of Smart Manufacturing, Plex Connects, Automates, Tracks, and Analyzes your operations.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): Connect your people, suppliers, and customers to a single source of truth. Automate workflows and create a digital paper trail for reference and continuous improvement. Track all physical and digital transactions for greater accuracy and traceability. Analyze real-time trends over time and uncover rich, contextual insights.

Manufacturing Execution System (MES): Connect to operations with a platform designed to support the speed, volume, and complexity of manufacturing transactions. Automate production transactions and manual tasks to ensure greater accuracy and free up workers’ time for higher-value activities. Track materials effectively throughout the entire journey, from receipt to shipment – including WIP – to deliver a real-time, granular view of the business. Analyze data collected at each manufacturing moment in the context of your enterprise-wide goals and metrics.

Analytics and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT): Connect shop floor performance data to maximize production and operational visibility. Automate alerts sent to personnel who can effectively react to behavioral data that’s outside of the norm. Track equipment performance trends over time to predict downtime for proactive planning. Analyze trends and compare operational data against other KPIs to discover new opportunities for improvement.

Supply Chain Planning: Connect your business and remove data silos with cloud-based planning to unite people, processes, and supply chains. Automate and remove the guesswork from planning with system-calculated recommendations for order requirements, safety stock, and lead times. Track data, material usage, and related financial transactions to optimize your supply chain. Analyze and evaluate what matters most to drive informed inventory decision-making.


Key benefits of Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform

Built around the pillars of Smart Manufacturing, Plex Connects, Automates, Tracks, and Analyzes your operations.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): Connect your people, suppliers, and customers to a single source of truth. Automate workflows and create a digital paper trail for reference and continuous improvement. Track all physical and digital transactions for greater accuracy and traceability. Analyze real-time trends over time and uncover rich, contextual insights.

Manufacturing Execution System (MES): Connect to operations with a platform designed to support the speed, volume, and complexity of manufacturing transactions. Automate production transactions and manual tasks to ensure greater accuracy and free up workers’ time for higher-value activities. Track materials effectively throughout the entire journey, from receipt to shipment – including WIP – to deliver a real-time, granular view of the business. Analyze data collected at each manufacturing moment in the context of your enterprise-wide goals and metrics.

Analytics and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT): Connect shop floor performance data to maximize production and operational visibility. Automate alerts sent to personnel who can effectively react to behavioral data that’s outside of the norm. Track equipment performance trends over time to predict downtime for proactive planning. Analyze trends and compare operational data against other KPIs to discover new opportunities for improvement.

Supply Chain Planning: Connect your business and remove data silos with cloud-based planning to unite people, processes, and supply chains. Automate and remove the guesswork from planning with system-calculated recommendations for order requirements, safety stock, and lead times. Track data, material usage, and related financial transactions to optimize your supply chain. Analyze and evaluate what matters most to drive informed inventory decision-making.


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Reviews

Overall rating

4.2 /5
(13)
Value for Money
3.6/5
Features
4.2/5
Ease of Use
4.2/5
Customer Support
3.6/5

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  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Monthly for 1-5 months
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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Plex is ERP made easy

Reviewed on 2018/05/10

Pros

In regard to ERP, this is all you need in order to track what is being done, how long it will take, and what else is needed for the project.

Cons

I think the layout could have been better in terms of visual aesthetics, but I do understand why it was designed the way it was. It is very effective!

Sukhpreet
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  • Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source

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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

PLEX Review

Reviewed on 2024/08/14

Overall Experience with Plex is satisfactory; build is stable.
Room for improvement.

Overall Experience with Plex is satisfactory; build is stable.
Room for improvement.

Pros

Seem-less integration of different modules.

Cons

Some of the design or features are old-school and not flexible.

Jacob
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  • Industry: Chemicals
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source

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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Our Plant uses PLEX

Reviewed on 2024/12/17

We use PLEX everyday to manage our manufacturing team. Overall very good experience.

We use PLEX everyday to manage our manufacturing team. Overall very good experience.

Pros

Very easy to view and use the data we collect across the plant.

Cons

We have the older/cheaper service of plex, so I am sure the current software has more features that would be nice.

David
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  • Industry: Aviation & Aerospace
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

Stay Away from Plex

Reviewed on 2020/02/14

Pros

We like the "all-you-can-eat" pricing model.

Cons

Nearly everything. Plex has nearly destroyed our company and that is not an exaggeration. Part of it I could chalk up to a poor implementation via consultant company and not having the competency on the inside to know what to ask for. Even when we tried to have a completely new implementation done by another consulting company, we could clearly see that Plex was never going to work for us. The MRP, routers and BOM's are completely disjointed making planning a very tedious task. You would think that a simple report like a costed BOM would be standard, but that doesn't exist. The management of Plex has been uninterested in addressing any of these issues (our Director of ops identified over 38 major problems) so we are actually looking to change systems, at the cost of hundred's of thousands of dollars.

Alternatives Considered

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Reasons for Choosing Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform

PCMRP could not scale with our business.

Reasons for Switching to Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform

The low cost, all-you-can-eat, with unlimited users was attractive.
Tyler
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  • Industry: Mining & Metals
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
  • Review Source

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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Just launching UX

Reviewed on 2018/03/04

Pros

Ease of use- very intuitive for any user that has worked with a line of business software

Web based- this allows total IT cost to be reduced. This is particularly true with multi-site/ high
user businesses. Because it is “cloud”, backups and risk plans are not as difficult to develop.

Unlimited users! This sets PLEX aside from all others. Don’t loose this model PLEX!

PLEax community is awesome. Lots of training/ knowledge there. This is typically an add on for other softwares.

Cons

UX still has its bugs but you can just as easy log in to classic and do what you need to do. UX is great so far.

Education portal should come free for the first 6 months for a free trial. There are so many training sessions and areas to find answers to your questions in this area. If PLEX gave a good preview, this would likely be a fast add on.

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Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform FAQs

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Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform offers the following pricing plans:

  • Starting from: US$3,000.00/month
  • Pricing model: Subscription
  • Free Trial: Not Available

Contact Plex Systems for detailed pricing.

Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform has the following typical customers:

51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform supports the following languages:

English

Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform supports the following devices:

Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform integrates with the following applications:

3G Pacejet Shipping

Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat

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