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A Case for Digitizing Food Safety Management Systems
You don’t have to look any further than the recent E. coli outbreak caused by romaine lettuce – the worst E. coli outbreak since 2006 – to know that better food safety practices are essential to…
How A and K Finishing Delivers On-Time, Defect-Free Products Every Time with the Plex Manufacturing Cloud
When A&K Finishing, a provider of plastic paint solutions for the automotive, office furniture, electronics, and commercial industries, opened its doors in 1990, they set out to be the “first to…
Innovation – Plex Customers “Making Things”
One of the lessons learned in Jerry Foster’s Innovation Keynote at PowerPlex 2018 is that innovation can take many forms. While we most often think of product innovation, there is also business…
PowerPlex 2018 – Innovation in Manufacturing Keynote
As Jerry Foster, Plex CTO, sees it, “all in on innovation today will own the competition tomorrow.” However, innovation isn’t necessarily the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about…
PowerPlex 2018 – Back to Detroit
Introduction After hosting PowerPlex 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia, PowerPlex 2018 returns to its roots in Detroit, Michigan, one of the nation’s biggest manufacturing hubs. CEO Don Clarke welcomed the…
Does Your Manufacturing ERP Software Do These 4 Things?
Connected manufacturing is a business strategy that leverages cloud computing to harness operational and business data and promises greater visibility, efficiency, control, and customer satisfaction…
7 Common Mistakes Manufacturers Make with ERP Implementations
We’ve learned a lot about what success looks like from implementing the Plex Manufacturing Cloud at thousands of manufacturing plants across the globe. Many of these ERP implementation lessons have…
5 Things Manufacturers Will Take Away from a First-Time Experience at PowerPlex 2018
If you are a manufacturer and want to improve your operations with the help of technology, you may want to consider attending PowerPlex 2018. Why? This event is the world’s largest gathering of cloud…
What Are the Benefits of Going Digital for Manufacturing Companies?
Every business has its challenges. The challenges you, as a manufacturer, face today include fluctuating customer demand, supply chain planning, inventory cost control, compliance requirements—and a…
How to Determine ROI and Long-Term Value for a Manufacturing ERP System
Modernizing your ERP is a major investment in the long-term success of your manufacturing business. And like other manufacturers, you’re probably worried about the cost, the potential disruption to…
The Plex Manufacturing Cloud Helps Argent Empower Employees to Grow the Bottom Line
When you think about traditional ERP configurations, access is usually limited to a select few. This is usually because the system requires coding expertise or the licensing is limited to a small…
Manufacturers: Is it Time to Break Up with Your Legacy ERP?
Break ups are never easy. As a manufacturer, ending your relationship with a legacy ERP system that no longer supports the agility and speed at which you do business can seem complicated. But there…
How Kamco Takes On-Time Delivery to the Next Level
In the world of automotive suppliers, delivering what customers want, when they want it is key to survival. Delivering “how” they want it puts you in a class above all others. This strategy is what…
Plex Customers Put Wearables and Augmented Reality to Work on the Shop Floor
I’m always amazed at what Plex customers are doing when it comes to advanced technology. Manufacturers, after all, have led us through major technology revolutions that have forever changed the world…
Modernizing Your ERP: What Every Manufacturer Should Know
If your company has an ERP and you’re struggling with lack of visibility into your manufacturing processes, lack of trust in the data, increased downtime, and rising costs—it may be time to modernize…
Ready to Turn Your Biggest Manufacturing Challenges into Opportunities in 2018?
Every business comes with its challenges. But, what if you could take your biggest manufacturing challenges—the ones you grapple with day-in and day-out—and turn them into competitive advantages?
What is Connected Manufacturing and Why Should You Care About It?
Manufacturing is increasingly becoming part of the digital economy. Even if you are doing good as a business, you still need to respond to the changes taking place in your industry: shop floor (…
5 Steps to Gain Organizational Buy-In for Your ERP Project
When your company has determined that it’s the right time to look at an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, the first question that typically pops up goes like this: “Is our investment…
5 Operational Challenges Manufacturers Can Address with Connected Manufacturing
You grapple with operational challenges every day. It’s the nature of manufacturing with so many variables that go into making products. Getting a handle on these challenges is also do or die,…
Mobility in Manufacturing Offers New Opportunities on the Shop Floor
The days of documenting inventory or production data on paper, collecting it, and manually collating it are over—at least they should be. Unfortunately, many manufacturers still rely on manual…