--- title: Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform Reviews meta\_title: 'Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 74 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.0 review\_count: 74 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: ERP url: https://www.g2.com/categories/erp --- # Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform but has limited features. Are you part of the Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Plex, by Rockwell Automation is a leader in cloud-delivered smart manufacturing solutions, empowering the world's manufacturers to make awesome products. The Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform includes solutions for manufacturing execution (MES), ERP, quality, supply chain planning and management, asset performance management, production monitoring, process automation and analytics to connect people, systems, machines and supply chains, enabling them to lead with precision, efficiency and agility. Our platform gives manufacturers the ability to connect, automate, track, and analyze every aspect of their business to drive transformation. * * * Seller [Rockwell Automation](https://www.g2.com/sellers/rockwell-automation-2026-07-14) Discussions [Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform Community](https://www.g2.com/products/plex-smart-manufacturing-platform/discuss) Languages Supported Czech, German, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional) Solution Type All-in-One Overview by Dave Morfas Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 8 months ### Return on Investment 27 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/plex-smart-manufacturing-platform/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![SAP ECC](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "SAP ECC") SAP ECC 4.2/5(946) ](https://www.g2.com/products/sap-ecc/reviews) [ ![Kinetic](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Kinetic") Kinetic 3.9/5(733) ](https://www.g2.com/products/epicor-kinetic/reviews) [ ![NetSuite](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "NetSuite") NetSuite 4.1/5(4,909) ](https://www.g2.com/products/oracle-netsuite/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/plex-smart-manufacturing-platform/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 74 real user reviews. Implementation Time 8 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing") AE Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/1/2019 "Plex is easy to use" 5/5 What do you like best about Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform? I am able to search for all active/inactive employees. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform? There's really nothing for me to dislike about plex at the moment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform solving and how is that benefiting you? It helps me with managing all employees. When it comes to searching for certain employees and their status, it's all there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Automotive](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Automotive") UA Verified User in Automotive Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 10/24/2018 "efficient way to organize documents and track business hours" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform? Plex allows us to share technical documents on a cloud server as well as track individual project hours with specific tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform? I dislike the layout of the software. The software overall works great. However, the style and design of the website could use some improvement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform solving and how is that benefiting you? The business problem that we are solving with Plex Manufacturing Cloud is the ability to track individual project hours as well as a cloud where anyone can check technical documents. The benefits include easy access to what tasks/projects employees are working on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Automotive](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Automotive") UA Verified User in Automotive Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/25/2018 "Quality Engineer" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform? A lot of menus for quality, manufacturing, logistics across the plant. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform? Graphical presentation and displays look like obsolete technology Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform: make it more user-friendly and attractive to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform solving and how is that benefiting you? Quality control, production control , manufacturing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Lexi O.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Lexi O.") LO Lexi O. Maintenance Coordinator Mechanical or Industrial Engineering Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/29/2017 "Plex Review" 4/5 What do you like best about Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform? Plex does a really good job organizing material and making it easily accessible. Plex does a great job keeping track of inventory and cutting out labor hours to do inventory manually. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform? The only thing I dislike about Plex is that it is very difficult to learn. There are many portals but once you learn them or create short cuts it is simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform: Plex is a great tool once it is learned. It is important to spend plenty of time on Plex to become comfortable and effecient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform solving and how is that benefiting you? I have not had any issues from Plex. The only issues I have ran into is co-workers not using Plex correctly and creating issues later on such as inventory levels being off. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering") UM Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/10/2017 "Plex" 5/5 What do you like best about Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform? It is very easy to use. It is very functional. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform? There is not anything that I dislike about Plex. It has helped us as a company and enabled me to grow in my job. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform: I would highly recommend it. It is very easy to use and it has great functionality. It solved our biggest problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform solving and how is that benefiting you? It has solved material Planning problems. We now have components on time. We now have a good relationship with our suppliers because we are not hounding them for components. It has a supplier portal, which has solved supplier issues It has given us the ability to forecast our customer's needs. Plex has taught me so much about our business. It has solved problems with functionality. I love it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign BL Bill L. Network Engineer Automotive Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/11/2017 "Plex - many shortcomings" 0/5 What do you like best about Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform? I admit the plant floor interface is very nice and easy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform? You can get 2 different results on 2 different screens using the same dataset, Support is very "iffy", some days you cannot reach anyone for support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform: Dont' Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform solving and how is that benefiting you? Based on what we have found in using the software, we see no benefits Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering") UM Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/17/2017 "bad news" 1/5 What do you like best about Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform? not much. I cannot do costing without going into test system and using a dummy part to change costs just to get an estimate cost for a new product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform? things are hard to find, do not connect well, tables have the same names for different tables so hard to query from them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform: find a different software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform solving and how is that benefiting you? Using for AP, which is not great but not horrible. Also for costing, which does not work for our needs. Engineering modules seem to be way to complicated so we don't use those as we should be able to Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 11/27/2017 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite AM adrianna m. Activity Assistant Marketing and Advertising Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/30/2017 "Great product" 5/5 What do you like best about Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform? Easy to use and efficient it is a great product and I would recommend this software to others Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform? Nothing. It is a wonderful product and I see nothing wrong Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform solving and how is that benefiting you? It provides a fast way to organize and plan business documents Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering") UM Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/11/2017 "Use of Plex by production supervisor" 3/5 What do you like best about Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform? Plex can be accessed from any computer or smart phone. I like that it is live and can be monitored when away from work if necessary. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform? That I have to put my password in every 90 minutes if I haven't used the system for that time period. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform solving and how is that benefiting you? It is much more beneficial to have Plex live versus our past system that wasn't. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering") AM Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/29/2018 "New Implementation" 2/5 What do you like best about Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform? Menu ease of use. Easy to find info and identify apprpriate data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform? Implementation process is full of holes. We have had to slow down our schedule due to serious issues created by implementation process Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform solving and how is that benefiting you? Consolidation of mergers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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