In the US, MAN Roland has installed a Prism WIN management information system at its Graphic Centre in Westmont, Illinois. The system will be responsible for creating the job tickets for all jobs in the centre and capturing actual material, labour and machine costs through its shopfloor data capture module.
“We chose to highlight our integration to Prism WIN because of our long standing JDF connectivity,” explains Hal Stratton, director of new technologies at MAN Roland. “WIN not only provides job ticket information to our presses, but also to our Kodak Prinergy prepress workflow. Through PrintNet, all of our presses send real-time, JMF messages to WIN of actual job progress and machine performance. At the end of a customer demonstration we actually print out a WIN job cost detail report for the customer, for the actual job we just ran. Prism WIN ties our entire workflow together.”
Although the primary objective of the Westmont facility is to showcase MAN Roland presses, printers today are increasingly looking for how their new press will integrate into their overall production workflow.
“The integration between an MIS and our presses through PrintNet is of paramount importance to our customers,” says Vince Lapinski, ceo of MAN Roland. We have led in the early and continued development of JDF and have more than 45 proven customer installations working with a variety of MIS solutions. WIN offers our customers a strong option toward computer integrated manufacturing.”
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