Plexus Corp. and its subsidiaries (Plexus) participate in the electronic manufacturing services (EMS) industry.
The company partners with its customers to design, manufacture and service highly complex products in demanding regulatory environments. The company’s innovative solutions across the lifecycle of a product converge where advanced technology and human impact intersect. The company provides these solutions to market-leading as well as disruptive global companies in the Aerospace/Defense...
Plexus Corp. and its subsidiaries (Plexus) participate in the electronic manufacturing services (EMS) industry.
The company partners with its customers to design, manufacture and service highly complex products in demanding regulatory environments. The company’s innovative solutions across the lifecycle of a product converge where advanced technology and human impact intersect. The company provides these solutions to market-leading as well as disruptive global companies in the Aerospace/Defense, Healthcare/Life Sciences, and Industrial market sectors supported by a global team of over 20,000 members across its 26facilities in the Americas (AMER), Asia-Pacific (APAC) and Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) regions.
At Plexus, the company helps create the products that build a better world. Driven by a passion for excellence, the company partners with its customers to design, manufacture and service highly complex products in demanding regulatory environments. From life-saving medical devices and mission-critical aerospace and defense products to industrial automation systems and semiconductor capital equipment, the company’s innovative solutions across the lifecycle of a product converge where advanced technology and human impact intersect. The company provides these solutions to market-leading as well as disruptive global companies in the Aerospace/Defense, Healthcare/Life Sciences, and Industrial sectors, supported by a global team of over 20,000 members across its facilities in the Americas (AMER), Asia-Pacific (APAC) and Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) regions.
Solutions
With integrated solutions throughout the product lifecycle, the company’s team strives to create innovative and optimized paths to deliver products to the market, keep products in the market longer and help manage the product lifecycle sustainably and responsibly.
Design and Development – Using standard tools and processes throughout the company’s six design centers worldwide, it leverages the latest technology and state-of-the-art design automation methodologies to provide comprehensive new product development and product commercialization solutions. The breadth of the company’s capabilities across the product lifecycle enables it to integrate supply chain, manufacturing and service expertise into its designs, resulting in products developed with the full product lifecycle in mind.
Supply Chain Solutions– Delivering an optimal supply chain strategy is more than simply getting a product where it needs to be on time. The company’s supply chain experts engage in all of Plexus’ integrated solutions to identify opportunities for supply chain optimization. The company helps manage the full supply chain to minimize cost, mitigate risk and provide a flexible, scalable and resilient solution for its customers.
New Product Introduction – When introducing a new product, the company understands its customers need to move quickly. The company has a dedicated team focused on decreasing time to market and transitioning products to full volume manufacturing, through a full suite of integrated new product introduction services, such as design for excellence, product lifecycle assessment, specialized design of test solutions and rapid prototyping.
Manufacturing– The company’s approach to manufacturing focuses on innovation, continuous improvement and superior quality and delivery. As it strives for perfect delivery and zero defects, exceptional quality begins with each individual member of its team, which the company advances through its Quality Begins with Me program. The company’s capabilities and its commitment to superior execution position it to support the complex technology and regulatory needs of the industries it serves, providing customers with dependable and flexible manufacturing solutions.
Sustaining Services –The company is committed to protecting its customers' brand reputation, supporting the success of each product in the market and extending a product's useful life through repair, refurbishment, remanufacturing (at the direction of its customers) and services parts planning. From influencing a product's design for serviceability, which creates early access for lifecycle extension services and repair, to aftermarket and end-of-life treatment, such as spare parts management, depot repair and part recovery services, the company takes a proactive and circular approach to service to help keep products in the market.
Through these integrated solutions, the company proactively tackles tough challenges throughout the product lifecycle. The company provides most of its solutions on a turnkey basis, under which it procures and warehouse all materials required for product assembly. The company provides select solutions on a consignment basis, meaning its customers supply the necessary materials, while Plexus provides the labor and other services required for product assembly. Other than certain test equipment, manufacturing equipment and software used for internal operations, it does not design or manufacture its own proprietary products.
The company’s facilities are strategically located to support the design, manufacturing and service needs of customers' global supply chains in its targeted market sectors.
Customers and Market Sectors Served
The company specializes in serving customers in the Aerospace/Defense, Healthcare/Life Sciences, and Industrial market sectors. Plexus serves a diverse customer landscape that includes industry-leading, branded product companies, along with other technology pioneering start-ups and emerging companies that may or may not maintain manufacturing capabilities. During fiscal 2024, the company served approximately 190 customers. Many of the company’s large customers, including GEHC and GE, contract with it through multiple independent divisions, subsidiaries, production facilities or locations.
Although the company’s business development focus is based on its targeted market sectors of Aerospace/Defense, Healthcare/Life Sciences, and Industrial, the company evaluates its financial performance and allocate its resources geographically. Plexus offers an array of solutions for customers in each market sector and, aside from the specific go-to-market teams.
Go-to-Market Strategy
The company’s market sector teams help to develop Plexus’ strategy for growth with a particular emphasis on expanding the value-add solutions it offers customers. The company’s sales and marketing efforts focus on expanding its engagements with existing customers as well as targeting new customers.
Sustainability & Social Impact
The company is committed to elevating the standards of business conduct through the integration of sustainable and responsible business practices into its enduring strategy. This integrated approach and related goals enable the company to address important environmental and social issues material to the long-term success of its business. This commitment is made public through the company’s membership with organizations such as the U.N. Global Compact (UNGC), including alignment to the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals, and the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA).
Regulatory Requirements
All Plexus manufacturing and engineering facilities are certified to a baseline Quality Management System standard per ISO9001:2015. The company has capabilities to assemble finished medical devices meeting the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Quality Systems Regulation requirements and similar regulatory requirements in other countries.
History
Plexus Corp. was founded in 1979 as a Wisconsin corporation.