Plex Systems has announced compliance enhancements to its Quality Management System (QMS) solution, Plex QMS. Particularly, the enhancement is to meet updated Ford Motor Company Customer-Specific Requirements for IATF 16949:2016.

Plex is a Rockwell Automation Company and has been one of the leading companies in cloud-delivered smart manufacturing solutions.

Offers Transformative Benefits

Renowned for its extensive capabilities and closed loop quality process, Plex QMS follows a plan-do-check-act methodology to drive the full quality lifecycle. Accordingly, this enables manufacturers to deliver better margin and drive a culture of quality.

Furthermore, the solution now also helps companies meet the newest IATF-16949 FMEA requirement, with support for families of FMEA, foundation FMEAs, and automated FMEA information flows from a Part FMEA to the Control Plan. Most importantly, the cloud-based Plex QMS also ensures all users are accessing the same PFMEA version.

“Plex is proud that in as little as five weeks, automotive suppliers can start realizing the transformative benefits of our QMS solution,” said Anthony Murphy, Vice President, Product Management, Plex.

In addition, Murphy said, “We’re focused on maintaining strong connections to the industry and regulatory bodies and actively engaging with customers to help deliver results-driven solutions that assist with meeting these new standards as well as reduce cost to comply.”

Complements Needs of Automotive Makers

Meanwhile, Reid Paquin, Research Director at IDC said, “The race to improve quality through digitalization is hitting critical mass as some automotive manufacturers are rising to the challenge and others lag behind,” said Reid Paquin, Research Director at IDC. “Suppliers utilizing quality management solutions, like those available from Plex, offering real-time, repeatable, predictable quality can help these manufacturers by delivering superior components that reduce their overall risk exposure and support market share expansion.”

Plex will display its solutions for automotive manufacturers at the AIAG Quality Summit on October 5-6, in Novi, MI. In addition, Plex’s full suite of solutions including QMS and the FMEA enhancement, will be available as well at the 31st annual Automation Fair, from November 16-17 in Chicago, IL.

More information about Plex QMS for IATF-16949:2016 is available here.

The platform of Plex gives manufacturers the ability to connect, automate, track, and analyze every aspect of their business to drive transformation. In addition, the Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform includes solutions for manufacturing execution (MES), ERP, quality, supply chain planning and management, asset performance management, and production monitoring. Furthermore, they also provide process automation and analytics to connect people, systems, machines and supply chains, enabling them to lead with precision, efficiency and agility.