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Rockwell's Plex Quality Management System

Quality as a mindset for driving process, reporting, and accountability

Meeting customer demands, maintaining regulatory requirements, and competing in a global
market all hinge on one critical aspect of your manufacturing business: consistent product
quality. In a fast-paced business, achieving this is sometimes easier said than done. Common
challenges like manual document control, low supplier ratings, lack of internal quality personnel, and poorly integrated quality systems, to name a few, make it difficult to stay ahead of the curve.

Manufacturers that have consistently established themselves as leaders in quality management have a particular trait in common, one that has helped them navigate and solve many of the problems described above. That trait? They view quality as a mindset. For them, quality management isn’t just a series of boxes to check. Rather, quality is embedded across every facet of the manufacturing process, from document management and cross-functional collaboration to supplier communications, safety, compliance, training, and much more. It’s a foundational business tenet and a guiding principle for decision-making.

If you’re thinking this all sounds great but will require a seismic cultural shift and even greater
time and resources to implement new tools—we can help. There’s a comprehensive quality
management solution that offers intuitive tools and resources designed to streamline your
team’s workflows and help them deliver on time, every time. In short, we can help you address
modern manufacturing problems with a modern quality management system that makes life
easier for everyone.

A solution that turns data to quality insights

Plex Quality Management System (QMS) by Rockwell Automation is a cloud-based, digital
quality solution for manufacturers, that standardizes and automates quality documentation,
processes, and measurements. With a “Plan-Do-Check-Act” perspective, Plex QMS applies data
intelligence and insights to enable fast, informed decisions and drive the transformation of
quality management from a reactive process to a proactive, value-added imperative.

Reduce quality costs and risk with digitally integrated quality and compliance planning

Plex QMS drives and maintains quality by ensuring a predictable, repeatable, and data-driven process. Gone are the days of flipping through cumbersome stacks of paper and tracking down document owners to verify updates. With Plex QMS, you can finally go paperless with digital check sheets that validate quality and process control in real time to ensure that execution aligns to specifications as planned.

It works by helping you generate process control plans with detailed inspection instructions and check sheets that are closely integrated with product specifications. If product quality becomes misaligned with specifications, automatic error-proofing capabilities stop production before it’s too late, helping you save time and resources while reducing overall risk.

Critically, Plex QMS features cloud-based document control and versioning, ensuring that the latest quality requirements and documentation are available and shared in real time across the entire enterprise. When everyone has access to a single source of truth, you’re better prepared to work with consistency and intent, which ultimately reduces cost, mitigates risk, and contributes to consistent customer satisfaction.

And when it comes to compliance planning, you can manage and track documents such as engineering and material specifications or recipes and seamlessly maintain detailed lists of compliance requirements for each, as needed. Plus, common regulatory compliance standards like APQP, FSA, HACCP, FSMA, and SQF are easily supported across workflows, so you and customers can rest assured that important industry-specific standards are being met.

Option to start from

If you’re interested in learning more about quality management capabilities, visit
our page on Plex QMS by Rockwell Automation. Plex QMS is just one
component of the Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform, a fully integrated, end-to-end solution that powers your entire enterprise.