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Ignition vs. Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricIgnition

by Inductive Automation

Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform

by Rockwell Automation

Overall rating4.84.0
Review count6074
Ease of use8.88.3
Ease of setup9.37.4
Quality of support9.17.6
Meets requirements9.48.2
NPS89.09090920.27027
Small Business37.3%13.5%
Mid-Market33.9%63.5%
Enterprise28.8%23.0%
Total page views1,203577
Total LLM citations2,5244,125

Ignition

Ignition by Inductive Automation is a universal industrial automation software platform that enables your organization to connect, design, build, and deploy industrial applications at an enterprise scale. Serving as a central hub for Operational Technology (OT), Ignition unifies real-time data from Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), databases, IIoT devices, and enterprise systems into a single, cohesive system of record.

Pros

    Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform

    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.

    Pros