“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.”
"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."
“Now we can sit in a room and pull up whatever auditors ask for within seconds. They’re blown away. They walk out of here, smiling and completely impressed with our ability.”
"As a single source of truth, Plex enables the team to be on the same page when Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, and others collaborate on many different items at any given time. Liam Clegg, Quality Manager at the Hudson facility, said, “Plex allows for the possibility of creating reports that can be used both daily, for communication between Quality and Manufacturing, and at a monthly and quarterly level for reporting to and by senior leadership, and everything in between."
“Plex has allowed us to look at the whole business and each location daily. Day-to-day communication is more visible to those who need it.”
"Before PLEX, various systems were used to achieve the company’s objectives in financial, process, and quality terms. Plex has generated a positive impact on the integration and visualization of the systems. I believe Plex will take the company to the next level globally."
"When Plex was introduced as a potential ERP solution, the Dura-Shiloh team quickly determined that it would bring invaluable assets to the day-to-day workflow. Not only could Plex be implemented across all Dura-Shiloh locations, but the features within Plex’s ERP were created specifically for manufacturers, appealing to Dura-Shiloh’s business model."
"One of my sole focuses right away was just figuring out what we’re really saving from a standpoint of automating production recording and label making. So in just those two things alone, we captured right around $48,000 of annual savings which basically paid for the Plex MES A&O product easily.”
"It’s great because you can easily access it from everywhere.”
"We’re really discovering the way we do things, the way we document everything, which is great because it means we can find the right solutions that will directly benefit all our operators.”
"It’s so easy to identify the trends, ups and downs, potential issues, and to show other departments what’s going on so we can do something now.”
“Not only can I backtrack through multiple pages to acquire the information that I’m looking for, but I very rarely have to worry about any software issues or crashes.”
“In terms of traceability, I think we can get down to a level that we haven’t had before, in a matter of minutes.”
“From a floor perspective, [Plex] is so much more intuitive, I’m impressed at how well everyone adapted to [Plex] – the shipping process is so much easier.”
“We had one system for accounting, we had another one that would track expenses of jobs, we had one system that would look at productivity of the machines. It was a lot of dual or triple entry on everything that we did."