189 Plex Systems Testimonials

"We needed to do this right. We went through two iterations on a system that would help us with inventory—and they were expensive—so we didn’t want to go down that road again and not be happy with it in two years. Plex kept rising to the top because it is 100% cloudbased and it fit our needs as a food and beverage manufacturer."

“[The quality staff is] now doing statistical analysis that was difficult to do before, which enables them to go on the production floor and stop processes that are generating out-of-specification products. Based on this improvement, we’ve been able to reduce scrap rates from 2.5 percent to 1.5 percent.”

"Mission-critical data is always accessible, safe, and secure. Plex’s flexibility is one of its greatest benefits. We’ve identified continuous improvement projects resulting in more than $200,000 of savings."

“With Plex, you know when you’re trying to build something you can create the control plan, set up your inspection point, and it’s captured right there in the moment and it’s there forever. And if you ever need to see any kind of validation or verification, it doesn’t get any better than having quality ingrained in the system.”

“Plex’s ability to provide detailed information quickly saves us time. With the Cloud model, it has allowed us to access information from anywhere, anytime. We are no longer chasing data from one source to another. It is now readily available to help us make informed and proactive decisions.”

“The barcoding function has made tracking parts more accurate and easy. Now, we are able to give precise information to our suppliers. We used to have a 10,000-foot view of inventory. Now we view it from 10 feet. That is a huge change.”

“If we’re able to provide the information our customers are asking for, we can show that we can be a strategic business partner. We were one of Subway’s first suppliers to provide digital reporting, and that’s because we had Plex.”

"Now I can go into the part cost structure and see the direct overhead, variable overhead, direct labor all the way down—and I can see the formulas. We can look at these cost structures to find areas of profit or loss. Our old system could not get as granular as Plex. I suppose maybe we had a lot of data but no information. Now we are getting our information on a much more accurate level than it was before.”

“The traceability within Plex is a huge timesaver for us. As soon as you set up a job in Plex, the system tells you exactly how much material you’ll need and shows you where the inventory is located.”

“We used to have 30 or 40 people come in and tag everything in the facility so that we could prepare a report for our auditors. People were here on overtime for 12- or 16-hour shifts, taking naps and not allowed to leave until we were finished. But now with Plex, we simply run a year-end inventory report, print off about 100 pages, and hand it to the auditors. We close our monthly books in a couple of days and our yearly books within two weeks—and there’s a huge cost savings in avoiding all that overtime.”

"Customers of AAM, who know Plex, now have great peace of mind knowing that all our core processes are managed by such a robust and integrated system for manufacturers."

“What has impressed AAM the most about the Plex implementation is that we have managed to launch an enterprise-wide change process without suffering any downtime and while achieving continued sales growth. This incredible commercial success and smooth deployment is a testament to the ease with which Plex can be brought online in a large and complex organization.”

“Smart Manufacturing is the intelligent, real-time orchestration and optimization of business, physical, and digital processes within factories and across the entire value chain. Resources and processes are automated, integrated, monitored and continuously evaluated based on all available information as close to real-time as possible.”

"Without traceability, you really don’t have documentation of your quality. And if you don’t have documentation, you haven’t done it. Now that I’ve got Plex, I can go into an audit with a laptop computer and I can find just about anything that the auditor is asking for right then in real-time."

"Before, you kind of had to go out and find a flavor, a roll, a bottle, a box. Now it (Plex) tells them the exact location they could go to, where it is, how much is actually in that location, and that has been a real help for our cooks which is less time batching and less time for the production."