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Asset performance management

If your machines are unexpectedly malfunctioning and you just can’t stay on top of it, the effects immediately flow onto every other aspect of your business. Missed deadlines, continual micro-stops and costly, unanticipated equipment repairs all drive down production, reduce your return on assets, and raise operational costs.

Digitally-driven Asset Performance Management (APM) is a cloud-based solution that connects to machines on the plant floor and monitors machine health to drive predictive maintenance. Many leading manufacturers are turning to APM to proactively monitor machine and plant health to ensure optimal uptime, throughput, and maintenance needs.

Eliminate unplanned downtime and hit production targets

Digitally-driven Asset Performance Management (APM) finally lets operators gain a holistic, real-time view of plant floor activity and proactively monitor individual machine condition.

Simple Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technology, tiny low-cost sensors and high-speed wireless networking makes it possible to inexpensively interconnect and monitor all your plant floor assets to ensure optimal maintenance and preserve uptime and maximize throughput.

Leverage a wealth of performance data to manage asset health and hit unheard-of levels of visibility, control, and accuracy in production, inventory, and quality processes.

Data-driven predictive maintenance delivers better machine ROI

Achieve real-time visibility

Always have a live view of your manufacturing environment using data drawn from real-time sensor inputs, machine states, PLC events, error codes, and part numbers.

Gain contextual traceability

Consolidate machine performance data in one system for a holistic view that enables contextual insights about the wider process implications of individual malfunctions.

Apply performance analytics

Use custom rules and analytics to generate potential failure notifications, guide corrective action and keep machines running at optimum.

Develop performance trend data

Tap into historical data and trend analytics for increasingly accurate failure diagnosis and predictive maintenance.

Maximize uptime

Analyze live data against a desired state, and generate early notifications of potential disruption to reduce overtime labor, scrap, emergency maintenance costs and over P&L impacts.

Optimize performance

Discover new opportunities to enhance production with contextualized process, machine-level, and operational data.

Improve machine health

Proactively prevent production equipment failure and unplanned downtime by keeping machines in optimal condition.

Streamline maintenance management

Take your maintenance practices from reactive to proactive with predictive analytics.

See How Asset Performance Management Makes You Proactive

  • Launch the on-demand demo now to see exactly how Plex Asset Performance Management helps you to proactively monitor machine health.
  • View the real-time status of machines in an asset dashboard
  • Monitor variables and recent events in real time to identify anomalies
  • See machine availability and status over specific time periods
  • Set thresholds and alerts to ensure assets don’t operate out of tolerance
  • Generate easy-to-read reports with a Pareto analysis to inform decisions

You have symptoms. APM has solutions.

Missed Deadlines

Say goodbye to equipment failures and unexpected downtime result in delays, missed deadlines, and decreased customer satisfaction.

Substandard Products

Have the power to set performance standards for your machines to ensure quality production and to quickly resolve issues before the become major problems.

Slow Recall Response

Despite the increasing frequency of product recalls, many manufacturers struggle to store and track the necessary data to respond effectively and safeguard their reputation. Not with APM!

Inefficient Micro-Stops

While major production interruptions are often easy to identify and resolve, micro-stops—brief yet frequent production halts—often go unnoticed, causing a significant impact on throughput and quality.

Expensive Equipment Repairs or Replacement

Without real-time performance data, manufacturers typically wait until machines break down or show severe malfunction signs before taking them offline for maintenance. This leads to costly repairs and increased shipping and production costs to fulfill customer commitments.

If you’re facing any of the challenges listed above, your operation will benefit from a digitally-driven APM application. 

Transform insights into actions

Increasingly, manufacturers are recognizing the benefits of implementing solutions that enable machine connectivity and condition monitoring without the need for physical inspections. 

APM enhances the performance of production machinery, equipment, and assets, allowing for deeper data analysis and improved manufacturing outcomes with: 

  • Connectivity to virtually any asset or data stream
  • Live dashboards for facilities, work cells, or assets with intuitive color coding
  • Real-time asset status views (Off, In-Cycle, Idle, Problem, Other)
  • Remote access to dashboards from any device, anytime, anywhere
  • Historical views of asset status and event logs
  • Data visualizations with graphical trend lines
  • Integration of multiple data streams from machines and sensors
  • Security controls to restrict access to authorized users
  • Contextual insights combining process, operational, and machine data

Our asset performance management capabilities

Connect

Connect plant floor performance data to maximize production and operational visibility.

Automate

Automate alerts sent to personnel who can effectively react to behavioral data that’s outside of the norm.

Analyze

Analyze trends and compare operational data against other KPIs to discover new opportunities for improvement.

Track

Track equipment performance trends over time to predict downtime for proactive planning.