Media Contact
Peggy Fenwick
pr@plex.com
(734) 516-6490
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Media Contact
Patrick McLaughlin
pr@plex.com
(734) 255-6466
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Corporate Headquarters
Plex Systems, Inc.
1731 Harmon Rd.
Auburn Hills, MI 48326-1549
(248) 391-8000
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Map and Directions
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Company Description
Since 1995, Plex Systems, Inc. of Auburn Hills, Mich., has maintained a singular vision -- to drive significant cost, quality and productivity improvements for manufacturers, from the shop floor to the top floor. Plex Systems is the leading provider of an easy-to-use, online solution for the manufacturing enterprise. Its fully-integrated, on-demand software solutions have resulted in a near100 percent customer retention and solution implementation success rate. Plex Systems serves a global cross-section of manufacturing industries (OEMs and suppliers), particularly automotive, medical device, and aerospace and defense companies. www.plex.com
Product
Plex Systems, Inc. is the developer of Plex Online, a software as a service (SaaS) solution for manufacturers. Plex Online includes over 350 functional modules to manage operations from the shop floor to the top floor, including manufacturing execution system (MES) modules such as quality management and machine integration, enterprise resource planning (ERP) modules such as accounting and finance, customer relationship management (CRM) modules such as order entry and tracking, and supply chain management (SCM) modules such as supplier quality and traceability. Plex Online's SaaS model delivers reduced cost of operations, faster implementations and a continuously improving feature set.
Shareholders
Apax Partners - one of the world's leading global private equity groups (www.apax.com). Apax Partners operates across the US, Europe and Asia and has more than $20 billion in funds under management and advice.
Plex Holdings LLC - consisting of the founding investors in Plex Systems.
Board of Directors
Robert Beatty, founder and chairman of the board, Plex Systems
Mark Symonds, president and CEO, Plex Systems
Patrick Quirk, SVP, Worldwide Sales, GoldenGate; former PeopleSoft general manager and group vice president
Jonathan Golovin, PhD, chairman & CEO, Retail Solutions, Inc.; former founder and chairman of Consilium, Inc.
Jason Wright, principal, Apax Partners
Milestones
1989 - Under the leadership of Robert Beatty (Founder and Chairman of the Board, Plex Systems, Inc.), the first solution (Plexus Online) is designed and developed within a manufacturing company.
1991 - Manufacturing company quadruples in size and profit, and starts acquiring other manufacturing companies, installing the system in each facility as it expands.
1995 - Led by Beatty, the organization splits off as an independent entity forming Plexus Systems, with a mission of providing the "best manufacturing performance system on the planet."
1996 - The company uses traditional Windows client-server software, growing steadily with new, external customers.
2000 - The team begins work on Plexus Online, the first fully integrated Internet-based on demand manufacturing software solution.
2001 - Having proven successful, the company migrates its entire business model to Plexus Online, abandoning traditional software in favor of an enterprise-wide hosted software solution.
2002 - The company develops the first, fully integrated online ERP and MES manufacturing performance system that covers all aspects of a manufacturing company.
2005 - Having helped hundreds of manufacturing facilities become more efficient and profitable, the company achieved average annual growth rate exceeding 35 percent.
2006 - Apax Partners, one of the world's leading private equity investment groups, made a strategic investment in June of 2006. The company is named a Managing Automation Top Ten Company to Watch. The company ends the year with 53 percent growth.
2007 - Plexus Online receives a CODiE award from the Software Information Industry Association recognizing its unique contribution to the software industry. Founder Robert Beatty was named Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year in the Central Great Lakes division in the software/technology category.
2008 - Plexus Systems named one of Start IT's Hottest Companies for second year in a row. Record number of new customers, 52, joined company. The company achieved 33 percent revenue growth.
2009 - With a name change to Plex Systems and Plex Online, the company continues expansion into new markets and regions, growing the Plex team to over 130 employees and expanding into a new 20,000 square foot facility in Auburn Hills, Michigan.
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Timeline
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Logos
Plex Online and Plex Systems logos can be found here.
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