Smart Manufacturing: Operational Excellence Isn't Limited to the Shop Floor

Summary

Manufacturing suppliers have many challenges to maintain profitability and growth. From developing and maintaining an effective supply chain to ensuring streamlined production to deliver products to customers on-time every time. But the many disconnects in processes and systems coupled with siloed and disparate databases means someone must steward the flow of data from one system to another, performing the data gymnastics to get information in a form that executives need to effectively run the business. Whether they use paper-based processes or multiple connected spreadsheets, most manufacturers struggle to keep up.

Imagine a business environment where supply chain processes are digital from the onset such that your business system starts as the system of record and continues to operate as a single source of truth for all of your data. Now imagine that your shop floor processes are similarly connected so that orders are processed, materials are ordered, and jobs are synchronized with production capacity. Sound too good to be true?

Attend this webinar to see how the Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform brings this vision into reality. Digitized processes from shop floor to top floor make it easy for you to achieve operational excellence and creates an environment of continuous improvement to drive your success into the future.

Speakers

Stu Johnson has more than 25 years of experience in the manufacturing industry since beginning his career as a mechanical design engineer. He moved into the enterprise software space working in various roles providing solutions for global manufacturers in the consumer, aerospace, automotive, and heavy equipment industries. Currently, Stu serves as Director of Product Marketing for Plex Systems and focuses on the future of manufacturing software working with the Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association (MESA), Smart Manufacturing Workgroup exploring topics like the Industrial Internet of Things and Industry 4.0.