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Plex Asset Performance Management

Optimize Machine Health With a 360-Degree View of Your Plant Floor
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Proactively Monitor Machine and Plant Health

Machine health impacts every other plant floor KPI. With the Industrial Internet of Things (lloT), you can get a level of connectivity that can open the door to new opportunities to manage asset health while unlocking plant and business insights to enable data-driven decisions.

Plex Asset Performance Management (APM) allows you to do just that. Using IIoT technology, Plex APM offers today’s manufacturers a new way of networking machinery together to gain a much deeper understanding of efficiencies and of potential failures, before they happen.
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Plex Asset Performance Management (APM) can help you shorten the path between gathering data and taking action. Explore how Plex APM can give you both a deeper understanding of efficiencies and potential failures – before they happen.

Key Capabilities: Turn Insights Into Action

More and more manufacturers are discovering the value of adopting solutions that enable machine connectivity and facilitate monitoring of machine conditions and output without performing physical checks.

Plex APM optimizes the performance of machines, equipment, and other assets used in production and allows you to dive deeper into data and perform better across all manufacturing activities with:

  • Connectivity to virtually any asset or data stream
  • Live dashboards of facility, work cell, or asset with easy-to-understand color coding
  • Real-time views of asset status (Off, In-Cycle, Idle, Problem, Other)
  • Remote access to dashboards anytime, anywhere, from any device
  • Historical views of logged asset statuses and event logs
  • Visualizations of data over time with graphical trend lines
  • Multiple data streams from machines and sensors
  • Security control to restrict access to authorized users
  • Contextual data insights that combine process, operational, and machine data
Plex Asset Performance Management
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Plex Asset Performance Management

Discover how Plex Asset Performance Management (APM)  can help you optimize machine health with a 360-degree view of your plant floor.

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Get Ahead and Stay Ahead

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Enhance Performance

With contextualized process, operational, and machine-level data, you can uncover new ways to improve production.

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Optimize Machine Health

Keep machines in top condition to help prevent production equipment failure and unplanned downtime.

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Make Maintenance Smarter

Evolving maintenance maturity can help you avoid expedited shipping costs, missed deadlines and extra production shifts.

What Problems Does Plex QMS Solve?

If your quality management is like many manufacturers, you are dealing with manual processes and spreadsheet-based quality control with no governing process. With increasing product complexity on one hand and continuous efforts to reduce cost on the other, the challenge to maintain quality continues to grow. With Plex QMS, you can tackle some of these most common quality challenges:

  1. Poorly Integrated Quality. It’s near impossible to gain the visibility needed to measure and ensure quality using disconnected systems and processes. This means the risk of recalls rises, customer risk increases, and costs can soar.
  2. Unmanageable Document Control. Paper-driven document management quickly leads to outdated information and loss of control. This results in high costs of compliance, but can also lead to the loss of certifications or worse, customers.
  3. Can’t Identify Root Cause of Problems. Product recalls are on the rise, yet many manufacturers still struggle to store and track the data necessary to rapidly react to recalls and protect their reputation.
  4. Inability to Keep Up with Changing Regulations. It seems that every few weeks there are new regulations and guidelines. It can be next to impossible to implement the changes in an analog environment before you have another risk on your hands.
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6 Steps to Asset Performance Management Success

Now you know what Plex APM is capable of – providing a 360-degree view of your plant floor to unlock both plant and business insights to enable data-driven decisions. It’s smart manufacturing at its best. So, what steps can you take toward Asset Performance Management success in your business? Start here:

  1. Determine your business goals. Don’t get caught up in the hype of IIoT technology; focus on the specific benefits like measuring machine health.
  2. Define success. Link your goals to specific metrics.
  3. Create a plan. You don’t have to perform a “Big Bang” implementation to reap the benefits of APM.
  4. Get organizational buy-in. Engage the right decision makers and stakeholders to secure approval.
  5. Implement. Transform your factories into connected plants.
  6. Rinse and repeat. Think of IIoT technology implementations as part of a company-wide digital transformation, not a one-off project.

How Can a Cloud Solution Transform Your Operations?

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Drive better visibility

Gather real-time and accurate material and traceability data to make sure that your production is always running smoothly.

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Cut costs

Streamline operations to reduce the time it takes to make each product, decrease downtime, and minimize waste.

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Increase productivity

Choreograph production processes directly from the control plan to shorten cycle times and improve efficiency. Eliminate manual process errors with paperless operator control.

Technology and automation are driving the next generation of manufacturing. Leading organizations are harnessing the cloud to transform the way they work – and you can too by:

  • Accelerating innovation with access to new insights and the ability to collaborate with ease and try new things quicker and at a lower cost
  • Increasing agility by being able to deploy quickly and pivot with ease to meet fluctuating demands
  • Scaling on-demand by easily adding or removing compute power and users to reduce time to value

With Software as a Service (SaaS), the benefits of the cloud have never been more accessible. Explore what's possible with the cloud in manufacturing and start planning your journey today!
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