# Manufacturing Execution System (MES) / MOM Software

## Take control of your plant floor with an elastic MES system that meets you where you are today with a modular architecture that scales across locations and a simple platform that brings together more capabilities than a traditional MES to help unlock autonomous operations.

## What is a Plex MES System?
Plex MES (Manufacturing Execution System) is a cloud-based production management platform that gives manufacturers full visibility across the plant floor and real-time control over production lifecycle. Plex MES features operator control panels, error-proofed workflows, closed-loop quality control, inventory tracking, and finite scheduling, all aimed at reducing errors, increasing efficiency, and improving quality. By connecting tightly with ERP systems and providing unified, real-time data, Plex MES helps manufacturers achieve compliance, traceability, and consistent performance across operations. As a truly elastic MES, Plex enables you to quickly deploy the capabilities you need today with broad options to seamlessly scale as your needs change.

## Benefits of Plex Elastic MES Software

### Gain control without compromise
Accelerate time to value with a rapidly deployable, modular architecture, choosing the capabilities you need today and making changes flexibly as your needs evolve.

### Simplify operations at scale
Build on a platform that is scalable and centrally managed to simplify operations across locations, reducing costs and supporting business growth.

### Unlock autonomous operations
Connect and unify more capabilities within your MES platform, unlocking broad data visibility, laying the foundation for AI, and moving your organization towards 'lights out' production.

## Plex MES System Capabilities

### Error-Proofed Plant Floor Control
Gain more reliable data for effective decision-making. In many plants today, people still manually enter much of their data. Plex’s paperless, easy-to-use operator Control Panel automates tasks, preventing human errors and increasing productivity. Plant operators can mitigate compliance risk through database-driven traceability and direct, in-line quality control.

### A Single Source of Truth
Empower both your top floor and plant floor to finally work from the same real-time data. Traditionally, MES/MOM systems contain disparate applications connected through complex integrations. Plex provides a unified MES manufacturing software solution — that means a single user interface to applications that are designed to work as one. And because the Plex MES platform is in the cloud, you can access your full production lifecycle from anywhere, at any time, on any connected device.

### Connectivity with Your Manufacturing ERP
Respond to market demands or customer changes without interrupting production. Changes from the top floor plan are dispatched to the plant floor scheduler. For every action on the plant floor, there is a transaction in Plex. Our flexible, configurable cloud MES system is also easy to deploy, standardize across your enterprise, and connect to your corporate ERP.

### Aligned with extreme precision to the pillars of Smart Manufacturing.
Plex MES/MOM Systems are designed to provide immediate value for your company, while preparing you for whatever tomorrow brings.

#### Connect
Connect to operations with a platform designed to support the speed, volume, and complexity of manufacturing transactions.

#### Automate
Automate production transactions and manual tasks to ensure greater accuracy and free up workers’ time for higher-value activities.

#### Track
Track materials effectively throughout the entire journey, from receipt to shipment – including WIP – to deliver a real-time, granular view of the business.

#### Analyze
Analyze data collected at each manufacturing moment in the context of your enterprise-wide goals and metrics.

### Explore Plex MES Platform Features

#### Production Finite Scheduling
Use a finite scheduling engine to determine which jobs to schedule to which work centers, with resource availability in mind.

### Closed-Loop Quality Management
Maintain quality procedures directly from the control plan for increased process repeatability and predictability.

### Inventory Management
Track and manage your inventory in real time, and stay in control with end-to-end traceability.

### Production Management
Stay on top of plant floor operations—making the right quantity of the right product at the right time for improved OEE (overall equipment effectiveness).

### Human Capital Management
Empower frontline manufacturing teams with real-time digital tools to improve productivity, reduce errors, and enhance collaboration.

### Unified Edge to Cloud
Lower total time to value and total cost of ownership with the only SaaS MES platform that offers flexible deployment options tailored to your business needs - from being 100% cloud-native to having a fully resilient edge, an elastic MES keeps manufacturing running, even during disruptions.

## MES Manufacturing Software FAQs

### What is manufacturing execution system software?
Manufacturing execution system software is a digital platform that monitors, tracks, and controls production processes on the shop floor in real time. An MES connects machines, people, and data to optimize efficiency, quality, and traceability throughout manufacturing operations.

### Why is MES software important for manufacturers?
MES software is essential because it helps manufacturers reduce errors, improve compliance, and increase productivity by delivering consistent, data-driven processes. It provides real-time visibility into production, enabling faster decisions and better control over costs, quality, and delivery.

### What is the difference between composable MES and elastic MES solutions?
The role of MES is evolving and, even among modern solutions, many MES platforms are simply not flexible to fulfill the evolving needs of modern manufacturing. An [elastic MES](https://plex.rockwellautomation.com/en-us/products/manufacturing-execution-system/elastic-mes-guide.html) simplifies operations at scale, with a centrally managed platform that cuts costs, while offering built-in cybersecurity, compliance and resiliency. This platform encompasses more capabilities than a traditional MES solution, unifying data, optimizing processes and moving organizations towards autonomous operations.