Rockwell Automation, Inc. has announced that Irish baked-goods company, West-Bake Ltd., has adopted the Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform as a company-wide management suite for its growing operations.
Based in Glenamaddy, Co. Galway in the West of Ireland, West-Bake operates a 44,000 ft2 (4,088 m2) bakery, with a strong team dedicated to producing muffins, cookies and cakes for customers around Europe. The adoption of the Plex solution will allow the company to establish and maintain tighter inventory and quality control in a digital format as it scales up its manufacturing.
Initially looking for an ERP (enterprise resource planning) solution, an in-depth, project-requirement capture and factory walkthrough by the Rockwell Automation team discovered that the Plex manufacturing execution system (MES) and quality management system (QMS) would have a positive business impact for West-Bake. Indeed, the return on investment savings realized by the MES would fund the ERP investment, which was subsequently bolstered by the QMS capability.
