Business Software for Plex Quality Management System (QMS)

VKS is a digital work instruction software that makes it easy for companies to throw out paper work instructions and transform into a digital factory. Create digital work instructions and standard operating procedures (SOPs) using pictures, videos, PDFs, annotations and more. Integrate in-process quality checklists to help reduce defects by up to 95%. Standardize best practices and increase productivity by 20%. With real-time process control and built-in reports, you also get 100% guaranteed traceability. By switching to digital work instructions, you can capture tribal knowledge and eliminate the skills gap. You also benefit from increased communication on the shop floor and the subsequent improved accuracy of your operational decision-making.

Drive plant floor efficiency with high-resolution visibility, error-proofed control, and a real-time production ecosystem that is connected to your ERP—by design. ERP systems weren’t designed for manufacturing execution. Plant floor information available post-production—or “back-flushed”—doesn’t help you control output at the manufacturing moment. Plex’s Manufacturing Execution Suite (Plex MES) gives you real-time production management so you have up-to-the-second manufacturing data—for end-to-end visibility and closed-loop control. Flexible, configurable, cloud-native solution for ease of deployment, standardization and integration to complement your corporate ERP system. Suite of unified shop floor applications on a common database to eliminate the risk of disruptions or errors due to inter-application integrations. Paperless, easy to use, operator control to increase productivity, and eliminate manual process errors.

Take control of your plant floor with full visibility into your production lifecycle and full connectivity to your manufacturing ERP. By automating tasks, preventing errors, driving in-line quality, and ensuring accurate communication between the top floor and the plant floor. With a comprehensive, real-time view of your entire production lifecycle. For both you and your customers with full traceability and operations monitoring. In many plants today, people still manually enter much of their data. Plex’s paperless, easy-to-use operator Control Panel automates tasks, preventing human errors and increasing productivity. Plant operators can mitigate compliance risk through database-driven traceability and direct, in-line quality control. Traditionally, MES/MOM systems contain disparate applications connected through complex integrations. Plex provides a unified solution — that means a single user interface to applications that are designed to work as one.

Seamless connectivity to machines gives you the real-time operational KPIs you need to take control of your production performance. Say goodbye to dry-erase whiteboards! Plex Production Monitoring, powered by Plex Mach2, provides seamless connectivity to and from machines on the plant floor. With our out-of-the-box software you’ve got access to production visibility fast without draining resources. You’re always in the know. Easily customized dashboards, coupled with clear visuals provide instant feedback and up-to-date production metrics. And most importantly with data accuracy you can trust. Continuous improvement cycles are enabled in real-time with real metrics. Not yesterday’s old news. That puts you in control to drive OEE optimizations and reduce unplanned downtime.

Proactively monitor machine and plant health to ensure optimal uptime, throughput, and maintenance needs. Leverage the benefits of analytics and Industrial IoT technology to gain deeper insight into plant-floor equipment and enable predictive maintenance. Monitor machine health to reduce production disruption due to surprise outages and machine failures. Drive predictive maintenance to decrease the time it takes to diagnose machine health events and improve historical data traceability. Contextualize IT/OT data in a single view to connect plant floor data with MES data and support informed decision making. Use real-time data collection and built-in analytics to capture and analyze live data on machine health and performance, compare machines against a desired state, and generate early notifications of potential disruption to reduce overtime labor, scrap, emergency maintenance costs and over P&L impacts.