Asset Performance Management (APM) Software

Proactively monitor machine and plant health to ensure optimal uptime, throughput, and maintenance needs with enterprise asset performance management software.

Leverage the benefits of analytics and Industrial IoT technology to gain deeper insight into plant-floor equipment and enable predictive maintenance.

Monitor machine health to reduce production disruption due to surprise outages and machine failures.

Drive predictive maintenance to decrease the time it takes to diagnose machine health events and improve historical data traceability.

Contextualize IT/OT data in a single view to connect plant floor data with MES data and support informed decision making.

What is Asset Performance Management Software?

Plex Asset Performance Management software is a system that helps manufacturers monitor and analyze the health and performance of machines and equipment to deliver optimal uptime, throughput, and maintenance planning. It combines process, operational, and machine-level data with analytics and real-time visibility so organizations can detect issues early, support predictive maintenance, and make informed decisions to reduce unplanned downtime.

Benefits of Plex Asset Performance Management (APM)

Maximize Uptime

Eliminate unplanned downtime and hit your production targets.

Use real-time data collection and built-in analytics to capture and analyze live data on machine health and performance, compare machines against a desired state, and generate early notifications of potential disruption to reduce overtime labor, scrap, emergency maintenance costs, and over P&L impacts.

Reduce Machine Failure

Improve your ability to identify and help prevent machine health incidents.

Visualize and trend analytics to support accurate and timely diagnosis of failure-causing conditions using historical data storage. Contextualize machine activity with details on specific operations to drive predictive maintenance using contextual traceability.

Consolidate Data Silos

Manage all your data in one system to create context and connected workflows.

Contextualize a combination of OT data from the plant floor and IT data from Plex MES to create a single view and support informed accurate decisions. Create and manage maintenance requests in MES or CMMS system directly from Plex APM for more efficient management of asset performance.

Aligned with extreme precision to the pillars of Smart Manufacturing.

Plex enterprise Asset Performance Management (APM) is designed to provide immediate value for your company, while preparing you for whatever tomorrow brings.

Plex Asset Performance Management (APM) Features

  1. Real-time visibility: Using real-time sensor inputs, machine states, PLC events, error codes, and part numbers, Plex's APM system will generate live views of what’s going on in your manufacturing environment.

  2. Contextual traceability: Consolidate disparate silos of data into one system to gain a contextualized view as to why machines are not performing to the best of their ability and what was impacted when an issue occurs.

  3. Preventative data and trends: Historical data storage and trend analytics allow for the support of accurate predictive maintenance and diagnosis of failure-causing conditions.

  4. Built-in analytics: Use a variety of custom rules and analytics to ensure machines are running as desired and generate notifications against potential machine failure to guide corrective action.

Asset Performance Management FAQs

What are the key features of asset performance management software?

Asset performance management software includes real-time asset monitoring, predictive and preventive maintenance capabilities, condition-based alerts, and advanced analytics. It also centralizes operational and machine data to provide visibility into asset health, performance trends, and maintenance workflows.

What are the key benefits of asset performance management software?

APM software helps reduce unplanned downtime, extend asset lifespan, and lower maintenance costs by enabling proactive, data-driven decision-making. By improving reliability and optimizing maintenance strategies, organizations can increase overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and operational efficiency across the enterprise.

What is the difference between APM and ALM?

Asset performance management focuses on monitoring, maintaining, and optimizing physical assets in real-time to improve reliability and uptime. Asset Lifecycle Management (ALM) manages an asset’s entire lifecycle—from design and procurement to operation and retirement—covering a wider scope beyond day-to-day performance.