Bailey is a technology sales professional with over 20 years of experience in the ERP and supply chain space. Prior to Plexus, he was an account executive at QAD (NASDAQ: QAD), where he directed marketing efforts with Tier 1 and 2 manufacturers. Prior to QAD, Bailey worked with several other companies building a presence in the South, including Symix and JBA.. Tom Mackey, executive vice president of sales at Plexus, said, “H.L.’s expertise in southern manufacturing markets will help Plexus extend our customer base across a broad range of industries in the region, including automotive, aerospace and medical device manufacturing.”“I was attracted to Plexus Systems by the depth and quality of the software and the excellent customer relationships the company has already built. I’m very excited to help the company extend Plexus Online’s presence in the southern states, where manufacturers are striving to effectively compete in today’s global business environment,” said Bailey.H.L.Bailey can be reached at hlbailey@plex.com or (770) 982-5476.
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Plexus Online Channel Partner Program
Plexus Online manufacturing software can manage a company’s entire business from Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and sales to purchasing, production, quality, shipping and accounting. It also provides advanced traceability and genealogy. The cost-effective software is web-hosted, which lets companies use Plexus’ world-class data center and avoid buying and maintaining costly computer equipment.
The Plexus Channel Partner Program allows companies with established install bases to generate significant revenue by selling the entire Plexus Online suite or individual modules as an add-on to existing solutions such as Microsoft Business Solutions, Oracle Solutions, QAD and SAP. Partners also receive marketing materials from Plexus Systems and will be invited to a user conference each year, which will keep them up-to-date on advances in Plexus Online software.
“Plexus Systems has been continuously successful selling against the biggest names in our industry, “said Michael Grant, Channel Manager for Plexus Systems. “We are committed to helping our Channel Partners achieve the same level of success.”
The Plexus Channel Partner Program allows companies with established install bases to generate significant revenue by selling the entire Plexus Online suite or individual modules as an add-on to existing solutions such as Microsoft Business Solutions, Oracle Solutions, QAD and SAP. Partners also receive marketing materials from Plexus Systems and will be invited to a user conference each year, which will keep them up-to-date on advances in Plexus Online software.
“Plexus Systems has been continuously successful selling against the biggest names in our industry, “said Michael Grant, Channel Manager for Plexus Systems. “We are committed to helping our Channel Partners achieve the same level of success.”
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Who Will Lead The Manufacturing Evolution?
On Demand Software Delivery is here and it will grow substantially in the coming years. Recent announcements by nearly all of the biggest software vendors about On Demand Software Delivery shows that the success of companies like SalesForce.com has caught everyone’s attention — customers and software vendors alike. You know who started the revolution, which software companies will evolve to be the leaders?
For over a decade, Plexus Systems, Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.) has maintained a singular vision -- to drive significant cost, quality, traceability and productivity improvements in the manufacturing sector from the shop floor to the top floor. Plexus Online is the first true on demand manufacturing performance system. It delivers a powerful, real-time interface to the total manufacturing process. With the ability to manage a single facility or an entire enterprise, Plexus Online allows manufacturers to closely track critical aspects of their operation, anywhere, anytime.
The award winning Plexus Online manufacturing intelligence system enables the collection, presentation and analysis of critical, real-time data to decision makers throughout the enterprise and the supply chain. By having a common shared platform, tomorrow's knowledge workers can reach beyond the confines of their offices with anyone they need to do business with - customers, partners, suppliers - all without any barriers. Plexus Online allows a company’s entire chain of command to get the information they need on demand, anytime, anywhere. Companies can pull together their separate functions into a lean, highly profitable whole to successfully compete in today’s global manufacturing marketplace.
It comes down to the customer experience, making a product easier to use for a customer and evolving it as quickly as possible to meet the customer's needs. Plexus Online software delivered as a service enables that and packaged software does not.
Benefits of using Plexus Online include, better decision making through more timely and accurate information, complete integration, improves coordination among employees, customers, and suppliers, easier administration, automatic software updates, all users have the same version of software, increase revenue through differentiation, strong control mechanisms, high quality, innovative links with customers, global accessibility, etc.
Plexus Online is the on demand business solution specifically designed for automotive suppliers and other manufacturing companies. As an Internet-based system Plexus Online requires no infrastructure to implement. It links together multiple plants as well as customers, suppliers and employees into a centralized database of real-time information that is accessible no matter where they are in the world. It also is ideal for fast and flexible deployment in a time of mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and other rapid changes.
For over a decade, Plexus Systems, Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.) has maintained a singular vision -- to drive significant cost, quality, traceability and productivity improvements in the manufacturing sector from the shop floor to the top floor. Plexus Online is the first true on demand manufacturing performance system. It delivers a powerful, real-time interface to the total manufacturing process. With the ability to manage a single facility or an entire enterprise, Plexus Online allows manufacturers to closely track critical aspects of their operation, anywhere, anytime.
The award winning Plexus Online manufacturing intelligence system enables the collection, presentation and analysis of critical, real-time data to decision makers throughout the enterprise and the supply chain. By having a common shared platform, tomorrow's knowledge workers can reach beyond the confines of their offices with anyone they need to do business with - customers, partners, suppliers - all without any barriers. Plexus Online allows a company’s entire chain of command to get the information they need on demand, anytime, anywhere. Companies can pull together their separate functions into a lean, highly profitable whole to successfully compete in today’s global manufacturing marketplace.
It comes down to the customer experience, making a product easier to use for a customer and evolving it as quickly as possible to meet the customer's needs. Plexus Online software delivered as a service enables that and packaged software does not.
Benefits of using Plexus Online include, better decision making through more timely and accurate information, complete integration, improves coordination among employees, customers, and suppliers, easier administration, automatic software updates, all users have the same version of software, increase revenue through differentiation, strong control mechanisms, high quality, innovative links with customers, global accessibility, etc.
Plexus Online is the on demand business solution specifically designed for automotive suppliers and other manufacturing companies. As an Internet-based system Plexus Online requires no infrastructure to implement. It links together multiple plants as well as customers, suppliers and employees into a centralized database of real-time information that is accessible no matter where they are in the world. It also is ideal for fast and flexible deployment in a time of mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and other rapid changes.
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Plant Performance Monitoring (PPM) - Monitor In The Here And Now
You can know what is happening right now on your shop floor, what happened five minutes ago, and what is likely to happen in the next few minutes. Real-time plant performance monitoring (PPM) systems give you the ability to do just that and to respond immediately to changes or problems in your manufacturing processes while creating and maintaining key performance indicators that will help you to optimize those processes.
Real-time PPM systems pull data directly from machines on the plant floor, but how they work can differ between systems. For example, PPM systems can collect data through an operator control station, or by being wired to a machine's PLC, or through an intermediate software package. in addition, some PPM systems work through web browsers and keep collected data on servers that are located on-site at the shop, while others are hosted from websites that are run by the system provider who maintains the data at a remote server.
The Plexus Online system from Plexus systems (www.plex.com) also offers a real-time, on-demand interface to manufacturing processes. however, this system software is hosted over the internet from Plexus's own website.
At its site, the company stores and maintains all the software programs and collected data. shop customers own the data, but Plexus manages it, backs it up and protects it for them. Plexus's management of the data eliminates the need for on-site servers, databases and extra it personnel.
Shops can use simple web browsers to track the critical aspects of their operations from anywhere at anytime, and managers can initiate changes when they are needed. operators input data to Plexus Online from machine control panels or from a separate PC, or data can be entered automatically through a server and PLC connection.
One Plexus customer stores setup parameters for its stamping presses within Plexus Online then downloads those settings to its machines. as the presses run, the Plexus Online software monitors them, and if a measurement is out of spec, the software initiates an appropriate adjustment.
The same customer also prompts and monitors quality inspections through the Plexus Online system. the software is programmed to require inspections on a given number of parts to make sure the process is running right and that press tooling has not worn. if the operator does not make a scheduled inspection within five minutes of the Plexus Online system calling for one, the software shuts down the press automatically to avoid wasting material or producing bad parts. Besides such monitoring, the system also creates traceability records.
The Plexus Online site resides in auburn hills, Mich., and currently oversees about 1,200 plants, backs up customer information and archives data. every hour or so, the site conducts a disc-to-disc back up and a once daily disc-to-tape back up. its backup tapes are stored off site.
Plexus has five websites for backup, and a redundant internet connection and back-up power. it also has a complete back-up-data center in a location outside of Michigan.
The company regularly answers questions on data security and how safe data is from outsiders."a shop's data is not just ‘out there' on the internet. it is literally in a locked vault at the Plexus facility," Mark symonds, chief executive officer of Plexus systems inc. said. "there is a lot of physical security involved, and shops, on their own, would be hard pressed to acquire and maintain the level of system redundancy, safety and security that Plexus does, let alone be able to afford a complete fail-over back-up facility," he added.
Source: American Machinist
Real-time PPM systems pull data directly from machines on the plant floor, but how they work can differ between systems. For example, PPM systems can collect data through an operator control station, or by being wired to a machine's PLC, or through an intermediate software package. in addition, some PPM systems work through web browsers and keep collected data on servers that are located on-site at the shop, while others are hosted from websites that are run by the system provider who maintains the data at a remote server.
The Plexus Online system from Plexus systems (www.plex.com) also offers a real-time, on-demand interface to manufacturing processes. however, this system software is hosted over the internet from Plexus's own website.
At its site, the company stores and maintains all the software programs and collected data. shop customers own the data, but Plexus manages it, backs it up and protects it for them. Plexus's management of the data eliminates the need for on-site servers, databases and extra it personnel.
Shops can use simple web browsers to track the critical aspects of their operations from anywhere at anytime, and managers can initiate changes when they are needed. operators input data to Plexus Online from machine control panels or from a separate PC, or data can be entered automatically through a server and PLC connection.
One Plexus customer stores setup parameters for its stamping presses within Plexus Online then downloads those settings to its machines. as the presses run, the Plexus Online software monitors them, and if a measurement is out of spec, the software initiates an appropriate adjustment.
The same customer also prompts and monitors quality inspections through the Plexus Online system. the software is programmed to require inspections on a given number of parts to make sure the process is running right and that press tooling has not worn. if the operator does not make a scheduled inspection within five minutes of the Plexus Online system calling for one, the software shuts down the press automatically to avoid wasting material or producing bad parts. Besides such monitoring, the system also creates traceability records.
The Plexus Online site resides in auburn hills, Mich., and currently oversees about 1,200 plants, backs up customer information and archives data. every hour or so, the site conducts a disc-to-disc back up and a once daily disc-to-tape back up. its backup tapes are stored off site.
Plexus has five websites for backup, and a redundant internet connection and back-up power. it also has a complete back-up-data center in a location outside of Michigan.
The company regularly answers questions on data security and how safe data is from outsiders."a shop's data is not just ‘out there' on the internet. it is literally in a locked vault at the Plexus facility," Mark symonds, chief executive officer of Plexus systems inc. said. "there is a lot of physical security involved, and shops, on their own, would be hard pressed to acquire and maintain the level of system redundancy, safety and security that Plexus does, let alone be able to afford a complete fail-over back-up facility," he added.
Source: American Machinist
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