SEO-Rich Description (Manufacturing / Smart Manufacturing Focus)
In today’s competitive manufacturing landscape, asset data has become essential for improving productivity, reducing downtime, and strengthening operational performance. In this presentation, Michael Hart, Senior Director of Product Management at Plex by Rockwell Automation, explains how manufacturers can optimize production processes by connecting, automating, tracking, and analyzing asset data across the plant floor.
The session highlights the current challenges manufacturers face—including siloed technology investments, reactive maintenance, quality issues, and unpredictable equipment behavior—and demonstrates how a smart manufacturing platform unifies people, systems, machines, and supply chains within a single digital system of record. By centralizing real-time machine data, downtime events, scrap causes, and operational KPIs such as OEE, Plex enables manufacturers to move from gut-based decisions to data-driven continuous improvement.
Michael walks through how poor asset health directly impacts downtime, scrap, availability, quality, and overall equipment effectiveness—and how actionable, real-time data gives operators and maintenance teams the visibility they need to respond quickly. The discussion also introduces the maintenance maturity model, showing the path from reactive repairs to predictive maintenance strategies that lower costs, increase uptime, and protect production throughput.
With Plex’s cloud-native architecture, manufacturers gain the flexibility to start their digital transformation where it matters most: connecting plant-floor assets, improving visibility, enhancing maintenance practices, and driving measurable improvements across OEE, quality, and operational efficiency. By analyzing asset data through a unified platform, manufacturers can future-proof operations, optimize performance, and unlock the full potential of smart manufacturing.
Keyword List
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Plex by Rockwell Automation
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Smart manufacturing platform
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Asset data analysis
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Manufacturing digital transformation
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Real-time production visibility
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OEE optimization
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Downtime reduction strategies
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Predictive maintenance
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Maintenance maturity model
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Asset health monitoring
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Machine data integration
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Plant-floor automation
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Production process optimization
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Manufacturing KPIs
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Scrap and quality management
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Connected manufacturing systems
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Cloud-native MES
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Industry 4.0 technologies
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Continuous improvement manufacturing
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Real-time machine monitoring
