189 Plex Systems Testimonials

“A typical audit takes two days, but our process is simpler with Plex and we were able to condense that to just hours. An auditor can walk through our facility and see how individual operators log in to Plex to open a job, put in scrap, pack out boxes, and so on.”

"We knew we needed to have something more interactive, something off-premises, and most importantly, something that we didn’t have to manage everyday, and Plex was the best fit for us."

“We have buy-in for Plex, all the way to our executive level. Having them really digging in deep has pushed the system. I’ve even seen our new president in the system saying, ‘Here’s how we’re going to do expense reports this way.’ It’s not just this initiative that IT wants but that the whole company wants.”

“Now we are addressing issues that go right to our bottom line because we have valuable details that we never had before. We can click a button and it's right in front of us. Once we focused on real information, we started managing the stuff that matters."

“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."