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Plex MES for Food & Beverage

Optimize your end-to-end Food & Beverage manufacturing process.
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Success in Food & Beverage manufacturing involves navigating dynamic pressures. Regulations and requirements are evolving at a rapid pace and the pressure on costs and margins is constant. As a Food & Beverage manufacturer, not just any manufacturing execution system (MES) will do. A robust MES provides automated production execution and line-level OEE tracking as well as a robust Quality Management System that includes rapid and comprehensive traceability features for recalls. Discover how Plex MES can help you take control of your plant floor and meet your cost, quality, and business goals.


Overcome industry challenges with smart manufacturing

According to our 2024 State of Smart Manufacturing report, which surveyed CPG manufacturers across 17 countries, respondents are adopting new technology to help address their greatest challenges.

95%
are using or evaluating smart manufacturing technology
ROI
Production Monitoring topped the list for technology that drives the fastest ROI
98%
have a sustainability / ESG policy in place
Workforce
was ranked as the biggest internal obstacle for CPG manufacturers
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A recipe for success with Plex MES

Uniquely in the market, Plex MES can be augmented with modular offerings to help Food & Beverage manufacturers manage all the different processes on the shop floor as needed, including production automation, OEE tracking, quality compliance, productivity management, scheduling, receiving, warehouse/inventory management, and shipping. Plus, with Plex, you also get:

  • A 100% cloud-native solution with world-class uptime and multi-layered cybersecurity
  • Fast deployment to deliver value quickly
  • An MES that is designed to scale across multiple plants
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Plex for the Food & Beverage Industry

Built for the Food & Beverage industry, find out how Plex is helping manufacturers like you plan and produce efficiently, lower costs, control profit margins and more.

See What Plex MES Can Do

The tracking and analysis of ingredients and formulas, combined with greater automation and connectivity delivered by a modern MES like Plex MES offer greater quality management, business visibility, and ultimately control of the entire enterprise. 

Check out this demo to see what Plex MES can do.

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Flexible and modular deployment options Comprehensive yield reporting Optimized batch scheduling World-class integrated food safety & quality management Automate, orchestrate & understand your plant floor Maximize supply chain efficiency & beat market delivery demands
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Flexible and modular deployment options

  • Tackle your biggest and immediate pain points with targeted solutions or go all in with a comprehensive solution – modular solutions of Plex help you solve specific problems, or deploy the full platform from the start – giving you choice and flexibility
  • Save time and money with simplified and accelerated deployment
  • Configure the platform for your business – no need for custom coding
  • Benefit from best practices thanks to a full industry template library
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Comprehensive yield reporting

  • Drive better financial performance and gain more granular insight into actual yields and problem areas
  • Get feedback on your actual cost versus the expected costs, with comprehensive yield reports that help you find the root causes and take corrective actions
  • Enable modeling of expected yield losses by component and operation, so you can drive greater precision in your purchasing decisions
REQUEST IN-DEPTH DEMO
Optimized batch scheduling
  • Maximize material and capacity utilization with optimized batch scheduling in series or in parallel, across multiple production lines with varying capacities
  • Ensure the right materials go into the right batch - automatically schedule pre-process/prep operations tied to specific batches and batch sizes
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World-class integrated food safety & quality management

  • Drive operational excellence with a fully digital, single source of the truth
  • Streamline food safety compliance and audits (HACCP, FSMA, SQF)
  • Enable effective issue resolution with built-in tools for corrective & preventative actions (CAPA)
  • Respond to recalls in minutes with real time lot tracking and traceability options
  • Leverage automation to reduce manual errors and drive in-line quality
  • Enable proactive alerting and statistical process control (SPC)
  • Drive customer satisfaction and enhance supplier management
  • Implement effective allergen control and ingredient tracking
REQUEST IN-DEPTH DEMO

Automate, orchestrate & understand your plant floor

  • Discover areas of weakness and track line level OEE to increase equipment availability and utilization
  • Leverage automation to quickly understand asset performance and allow for real-time adjustments
  • Automatically record and orchestrate data across your plant floor to deliver high-quality production at all times
  • Gain full visibility into your processes to strengthen and accelerate decision-making
  • Accurately correlate OT data like asset health and uptime with business data like quality, yield, cost and more
  • Seamlessly connect to the plant edge to effectively control information flow and production processes
REQUEST IN-DEPTH DEMO

Maximize supply chain efficiency & beat market delivery demands

  • Improve inventory management with accurate AI-powered forecasting based on historical sales data, external feeds like point-of-sale information, and more
  • Reduce waste with advanced requirements planning that considers expiration dates of raw materials and work in progress WIP
REQUEST IN-DEPTH DEMO
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Flexible and modular deployment options

  • Tackle your biggest and immediate pain points with targeted solutions or go all in with a comprehensive solution – modular solutions of Plex help you solve specific problems, or deploy the full platform from the start – giving you choice and flexibility
  • Save time and money with simplified and accelerated deployment
  • Configure the platform for your business – no need for custom coding
  • Benefit from best practices thanks to a full industry template library
REQUEST IN-DEPTH DEMO
Comprehensive yield reporting
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Comprehensive yield reporting

  • Drive better financial performance and gain more granular insight into actual yields and problem areas
  • Get feedback on your actual cost versus the expected costs, with comprehensive yield reports that help you find the root causes and take corrective actions
  • Enable modeling of expected yield losses by component and operation, so you can drive greater precision in your purchasing decisions
REQUEST IN-DEPTH DEMO
Optimized batch scheduling
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Optimized batch scheduling
  • Maximize material and capacity utilization with optimized batch scheduling in series or in parallel, across multiple production lines with varying capacities
  • Ensure the right materials go into the right batch - automatically schedule pre-process/prep operations tied to specific batches and batch sizes
REQUEST IN-DEPTH DEMO
World-class integrated food safety & quality management
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World-class integrated food safety & quality management

  • Drive operational excellence with a fully digital, single source of the truth
  • Streamline food safety compliance and audits (HACCP, FSMA, SQF)
  • Enable effective issue resolution with built-in tools for corrective & preventative actions (CAPA)
  • Respond to recalls in minutes with real time lot tracking and traceability options
  • Leverage automation to reduce manual errors and drive in-line quality
  • Enable proactive alerting and statistical process control (SPC)
  • Drive customer satisfaction and enhance supplier management
  • Implement effective allergen control and ingredient tracking
REQUEST IN-DEPTH DEMO
Automate, orchestrate & understand your plant floor
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Automate, orchestrate & understand your plant floor

  • Discover areas of weakness and track line level OEE to increase equipment availability and utilization
  • Leverage automation to quickly understand asset performance and allow for real-time adjustments
  • Automatically record and orchestrate data across your plant floor to deliver high-quality production at all times
  • Gain full visibility into your processes to strengthen and accelerate decision-making
  • Accurately correlate OT data like asset health and uptime with business data like quality, yield, cost and more
  • Seamlessly connect to the plant edge to effectively control information flow and production processes
REQUEST IN-DEPTH DEMO
Maximize supply chain efficiency & beat market delivery demands
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Asian manager and employee checking food quality control in factory using digital tablet

Maximize supply chain efficiency & beat market delivery demands

  • Improve inventory management with accurate AI-powered forecasting based on historical sales data, external feeds like point-of-sale information, and more
  • Reduce waste with advanced requirements planning that considers expiration dates of raw materials and work in progress WIP
REQUEST IN-DEPTH DEMO

Harness the power of the plant floor

Today’s Food and Beverage manufacturing enterprise gains a key competitive advantage by implementing a strong plant floor control system, like Plex MES. Dive in and explore what’s possible with Plex MES for manufacturers like you.

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We have so many options when it comes to Plex. And it’s so simple whether it’s an add-on module or extra programming. You couldn’t ask for anything easier than that.
Jason Morrow, Summer Garden Food Manufacturing
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The biggest benefits have been the total lot traceability throughout the system and the total productivity, efficiencies, and scaling capabilities with the batch management.
Christopher Marks, OWS Foods

Plex drives real results

99%
On-time, in-full deliveries
99%
Inventory accuracy
$10M
Freed up in operating costs
20%
Reduced inventory levels

Are you ready for FSMA Section 204 (d)?

The FSMA Rule 204 (d) will require enhanced traceability throughout the supply chain. There are several key provisions manufacturers like you need to be aware of and prepare for long before the rule goes into effect in July 2028. In this analyst report by ABI Research, you’ll discover an essential analysis of FSMA updates and how they impact your operations, including:

  • Recordkeeping and reporting requirements
  • Traceability requirements
  • Collaboration considerations
  • Implementation considerations
Harness technology to meet evolving requirements
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Harness technology to meet evolving requirements

Learn more about what Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Section 204 (d) will mean for your business and discover how deploying an effective MES can help you get compliant, avoid disruption and optimize operations.

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