Hiflex claims that its management information system is the only one with full JDF functionality on the shop floor, from prepress to finished product. Gary E Marron, president of Hiflex North America, states: “Administrative costs are the biggest concern to most printers and a stranglehold on their potential for profitability. With a true JDF data structure at the core of the system, we are able not only to generate JDFs dynamically for each order, but import them from a print buyer and export them for preflighting on the customer’s desktop against the specs directly from the order.
“We configure our MIS to a printer’s specific rules and equipment, and then generate JDFs dynamically for every order to be printed. These JDFs include a complete job component breakdown, with JDF parts and sub parts, as well as a complete JDF process plan for how the job will be run in the shop and in live production.”
Hiflex uses the JDF structure to consolidate and flatten the steps required to get the job done and promotes a new work type called the Super CSR. This embraces estimates, layouts, quotations, production plans, initial purchasing and scheduling all in one role and uses the JDF automation of Hiflex MIS to attain “significantly reduced administrative overheads”.
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