AUBURN HILLS, Mich., May 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Plexus Systems, providers of the on-demand manufacturing performance system Plexus Online, hosted more than 300 global manufacturers and partners from a wide variety of manufacturing industries, including automotive, aerospace and defense, and medical device manufacturing for the sixth annual Plexus Online User Conference. Attendees learned about new and existing modules of Plexus Online, as the company demonstrated how it is gaining momentum through technology leadership and partnering with customers.
Plexus CEO Mark Symonds vowed to continue making strategic improvements to support the global growth of its customer base. The recent Plexus conference in Dearborn, Michigan -- themed Envision, Enable and Empower -- reflected the company's newest initiatives for customers.
Symonds told the group, "You joined Plexus Online because you saw the future, and you wanted to be part of it. You've been ahead of the curve, and we've been proud to be a part of your successes. Others are realizing the strength of this model. On-demand and Software as a Service have entered the mainstream world of business, and are fast becoming the preferred delivery model for new technology."
Plexus Online combines the capabilities of enterprise resource planning (ERP), manufacturing execution systems (MES), quality management, customer relationship management (CRM), shop floor integration, and supply chain management (SCM). With the ability to manage a single facility or a global enterprise, Plexus Online utilizes lean principles to enable manufacturers to closely track their operation, anywhere, anytime using a simple web browser.
Plexus Online has added 15 new modules, bringing the total to more than 350 functional modules. The modules allow companies instant access to vital information and critical management aspects, such as quality, productivity and production scheduling.
Plexus Systems described to users its new, secondary data center for redundancy and disaster recovery operations, and how the company has scaled its technology infrastructure and operations to easily support more than 27,000 daily logins and 25,000 database transactions per second.
"Our system infrastructure has a level of redundancy and safety for our clients that is virtually impossible for them to match with an internal system deployment. That's one of the additional values that Plexus Online provides," said Symonds.
About Plexus Systems
Since 1995, Plexus Systems, Inc. (Auburn Hills, MI) has maintained a singular vision -- to drive significant cost, quality and productivity improvements for manufacturers, from the shop floor to the top floor. Plexus Online(TM) is a true on-demand manufacturing performance system, delivering a powerful, real-time interface to integrate and manage the total manufacturing enterprise. Plexus Systems originated internally at a manufacturing company, and was designed to resolve quality challenges, including production, distribution and global supply chains management issues. Today, Plexus Online also enables businesses to manage other top priorities, such as accounting, compliance and human resources. Plexus Systems serves a cross section of manufacturing industries (OEM and suppliers), particularly automotive, defense, medical device and aerospace companies headquartered in the Americas, Asia, and Europe.
Plexus Systems has partnered with Apax Partners (www.apax.com), one of the world's leading global private equity groups, to drive global expansion and further strengthen the company's products, services and market position. Apax Partners operates across the US, Europe and Asia and has more than $20 billion in funds under management and advice. In 2006, funds advised by Apax made a strategic investment in Plexus Systems, joining the founding investment group as stakeholders in Plexus.
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