Plex’s Todd Weeks outlines the benefits of working with a reputable Cloud company, going into specifics around the four key metrics that Plex focuses on as a leading SaaS provider.

Plex CTO Jerry Foster shares insights on new technologies—including machine learning, mobile apps and advanced analytics—that help manufacturers keep tabs on fast-paced factory-floor operations.

Shank’s Extracts, Inc., Sanders and Morley Candy Makers, Inc., Hausbeck Pickle Co. and USHydrations share best practices in food safety management systems and the technology they use to continue to lead their industries.

Plex’s Cloud Operations Director Lauren Giroux has been featured as a Michigan manufacturing leader. Leaders at customers Accuride Corporation, Hausbeck Pickle Co. and Sanders Candy are also named in this inaugural special issue.

Is the fourth industrial revolution here? Enterprise Times says while much progress has been made, manufacturers still have work to do, with ERP and IoT technology playing central and critical roles.

Gerry Gray from Plex offers food processors ways to meet the Food Safety Modernization Act’s (FSMA) latest requirements to gain better visibility and access into supply chains. Tips include automating processes and digitizing records for one version of the truth across the organization.

Plex CTO Jerry Foster discusses how manufacturers are actively exploring viable use cases for wearables and augmented reality/virtual reality technology on the shop floor.

Plex’s annual State of Manufacturing Technology report reveals that the 4th Industrial Revolution is well underway, supported by cloud technology.

Like the first industrial revolution, the next generation of manufacturing will yield exponential increases in quality, efficiency, and innovation. And according to Plex’s Chief Technology Officer, “Cloud technology is at the core of the next industrial revolution.”

Making pickles and peppers for global fast food restaurants and chains is challenging. See how the Hausbeck Pickle Company combines family values, hard work and cloud technology to provide for big name customers like Subway, Burger King, Sonic, Domino’s Pizza and Papa John’s.