The skills gap is a chief concern for today’s manufacturers, and as Mike Rowe explains at PowerPlex 2017, we all must work together to help close it. Learn exactly how big the challenge is, and some of the ways Mike and Plex are working to resolve it.

TROY, Mich., June 22, 2017 – Plex Systems, the leader in cloud ERP for manufacturing, today announced leading innovators in discrete and process manufacturing continue to choose and deploy the Plex Manufacturing Cloud to run their business, from the shop floor to the top floor. Plex is the choice of more than 550 customers operating over 1,800 facilities around the world.

Plex provides insights for food and beverage manufacturers on managing allergens – a growing concern across the industry. Topping the list of insights are a focus on the process, planning tools, and leveraging software to properly manage materials on the shop floor.

Hatch Stamping demonstrates a long-standing culture of using business intelligence to drive smart decisions, most recently applying production analytic application from shop floor to top floor leadership, which has contributed to 25 percent sales growth in the last two years alone. Plex leaders also discuss analytics’ role in IIoT and the product innovation process.

ASK Power, a manufacturer of electrical power connectors for the transportation, military, telecommunications, and OEM markets improves business processes using sales & operations planning and capacity planning.

As part of an ongoing series profiling manufacturing ERP vendors, industry analyst Brian Sommer shares an update on Plex, noting that “Plex is the grand master of the cloud ERP space.”

The 2017 Plex Impact Award recognizes leading manufacturers, including Accuride Corp., a growing global supplier of components to the North American and European commercial vehicle industries.

At PowerPlex 2017, industry analyst Jon Reed sat down with Plex CEO Jason Blessing to hear more about Plex’s growth as a company and discuss the cloud manufacturing tipping point.

Plex is further connecting people, processes, systems and products in manufacturing enterprises with two new advancements in its analytics and supply chain suites, enabling greater enterprise-wide visibility, control and management with a forward-looking approach to data, forecasting, and machine-learning.

Sanders Candy realizes significant ROI with Plex in part due to fast-track deployment, and being able to rely on experts for hardware infrastructure buildouts and software maintenance. The company has seen significant overall growth in the last three years, with equipment and production lines contributing to the company tripling its output.