Scalable Secure Remote Access Solutions for OEMs
Secure remote access to production assets, data and applications, along with the latest collaboration tools, provides plant and sites with the ability to apply the right skills and resources at the right time, independent of their physical location. OEMs are looking to reduce costs, add more value to their Industrial Automation and Control Systems (IACS) customers and differentiate themselves from their competitors. This paper outlines the means to enable secure remote access to plant or site-based applications and data and can be used as guidance for OEMs to collaborate with their customers when designing a secure remote access solution.
Realizing Digital Value: Three Opportunity Areas for OEMs
Success as an OEM has always hinged on the ability to design and deploy machines in ways that yield rapid time to value, no matter the challenges that may be involved.
Industry challenges, both perennial and new, are likely here to stay.
What’s different now is the technology landscape and opportunities it presents for OEMs to not only maximize efficiency from within, but also to differentiate themselves and strengthen their position in the marketplace.
Redefining Line Visualization For Protein Processors
Whether you're processing meat and protein products or producing batteries for electric vehicles, the basic goal for all manufacturers is to produce the optimal amount of product, at the highest level of quality, while limiting costs. And since the days of Henry Ford's assembly lines, there's always been an ongoing push for continuous improvement.
Within this paper, we'll focus on perhaps the most important aspect of digital transformation for food processors- enhanced asset and line visibility. We'll break down the technologies and strategies vital to optimizing the potential it contains, and the best steps to take in unlocking benefits related to improving operational and supply chain flexibility, cutting extraneous costs, enhancing internal and external communication to eliminate waste, and, perhaps most importantly, optimizing the role and impact of workers.
Reshaping Protein Production
For manufacturing decision makers, the ability to adapt production in line with rapidly changing market conditions and consumer preferences is key. Accordingly, their focus is on creating a flexible, digitally-enabled manufacturing environment that serves the need for transparency and flexibility. Within this focus, priorities around cost, food safety and quality, data security, workforce transformation, yield generation and greater localization all need to be balanced. These factors are putting pressure on producers to digitalize and operate as a connected enterprise.
Over the course of this paper we will explore how your organization can leverage new technologies to achieve flexible manufacturing and distribution, enabling you to meet the needs of a changing marketplace.
Digital Readiness Among Meat, Poultry and Seafood Processors
Get ahead with digital readiness in protein industry! We've surveyed top global meat, poultry, and seafood producers and found out how you can do more with technology.
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- Automation in action.
- Maximizing every cut.
- Enter edge computing.
- Unified robotic solutions.
Protecting Your Intellectual Property and Expanding Your Markets
Enterprise connectivity represents a massive opportunity for both machine builders and their customers.
But the risks associated with having a complex, interconnected system – from cybercriminals and competitors – are growing. Almost one in two companies has experienced illicit copying of entire machines. Cyberattacks can cause damage to physical assets, workers or products.
Fundamental to today’s production environment is the ability to provide secure, remote access for end customers, improve productivity and safety, protect critical production data from internal and external threats, while keeping intellectual property equally secure.
Scalable Secure Remote Access Solutions for OEMs
Secure remote access to production assets, data and applications, along with the latest collaboration tools, provides plant and sites with the ability to apply the right skills and resources at the right time, independent of their physical location. OEMs are looking to reduce costs, add more value to their Industrial Automation and Control Systems (IACS) customers and differentiate themselves from their competitors. This paper outlines the means to enable secure remote access to plant or site-based applications and data and can be used as guidance for OEMs to collaborate with their customers when designing a secure remote access solution.
Take Control of Your Food & Beverage Plant Floor
Security breaches in the Food and Beverage industry can impact production in unique ways. Attacks can occur on key operational systems such as refrigeration; materials might be misdirected; recipes may be tampered with or stolen, leading beyond product and financial losses to product quality and safety issues. A specific cybersecurity strategy addressing these specialized risks is required.
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State of Smart Manufacturing Report
Every day, we navigate a complex landscape: aiming for increased profitable growth without sacrificing quality; building greater resiliency and agility; stretching to make operations more sustainable; and tackling workforce and supply chain challenges simultaneously.
What can we learn from our common struggles? And how can we leverage global trends to reach our own goals? This research spotlights one common thread: the need for technology to mitigate risks, open up new opportunities, and remain competitive.
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Plex Quality Management System Demo
Don't rely on manual processes and spreadsheets to ensure you meet customer demands and regulatory compliance. Take control of your plant floor by integrating digital quality management into your production flow with Plex Quality Management System (QMS).
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MES For Dummies
Plex Systems, Inc. delivers the first smart manufacturing platform that empowers the world's leading innovators to make awesome products. Plex gives process and discrete manufacturers the ability to connect, automate, track, and analyze every aspect of their business - from the shop floor to the top floor to drive business transformation. Built in the cloud, the Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform ™ includes MES, ERP, supply chain management, Industrial IoT, and analytics to connect people, systems, machines, and supply chains, enabling them to lead with precision, efficiency, and agility in an ever-changing market.
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What Is a Manufacturing Execution System (MES)?
A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) helps businesses ensure that their manufacturing operations and production output are working to maximum efficiency. It’s a software system that connects, monitors, and controls machines, work centers, and data flows on the factory floor. The MES does this by tracking and gathering real-time data throughout the production lifecycle and on every piece of equipment involved in the production process—from order to delivery.
An MES provides businesses with data on product tracking and genealogy, performance, traceability, management, work in progress (WIP), and other plant activities throughout the production cycle. This information provides decision makers with detailed insight on how to optimize their operations. In this eBook, we’re going to take a look at:
- What Does a Manufacturing Execution System Do?
- Manufacturing Execution System Architecture
- What are the Benefits of Using a Manufacturing Execution System?
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Plex Quality Management System (QMS)
When manual processes and homegrown systems fall short, Plex Quality Management System (QMS) can help you take the guesswork out of quality management and error-proof your production operation. Plex QMS offers manufacturers increased quality visibility and real-time data capture to help ensure repeatability, predictability, and compliance management.
Plex QMS makes it possible to digitally manage quality with accurate, real-time quality content aligned to industry and product requirements. And you gain increased operational excellence.
Complete the form to download the Plex Quality Management System (QMS) Brochure now!
Realizing Digital Value: Three Opportunity Areas for OEMs
Success as an OEM has always hinged on the ability to design and deploy machines in ways that yield rapid time to value, no matter the challenges that may be involved.
Industry challenges, both perennial and new, are likely here to stay.
What’s different now is the technology landscape and opportunities it presents for OEMs to not only maximize efficiency from within, but also to differentiate themselves and strengthen their position in the marketplace.
3 Keys to Unleashing the Power of Data Analytics in Commercial Construction
The pandemic has seen to that in ways no outside force ever could. McKinsey, for example, reports senior business leaders have accelerated “digitization of their customer and supply-chain interactions… by three to four years.” The executives also say their acquisition of digital or digitally-enabled products has leapfrogged seven years.
This may not be news to you. It’s likely your company has made its share of large and small digital bets. But the expanding flow of data raises some interesting questions:
- How are you harnessing your database?
- How could data analytics better support decision-making?
- What steps can you take — right now — to advance your analytics?
This playbook examines the quickening pace of digital automation in the construction industry and the insights that transformation represents through real-time analytics.
