HOW TO MAKE AUTOMATION WORK FOR YOU

We all hear talk of the lights-out smart factories of Industry 4.0 but we know that the reality of an integrated workflow presents too many challenges to make this viable. Those exceptions-to-the-rule jobs crop up time and time again, requiring manual intervention to fix them. Often, companies abandon their vision for an integrated workflow, thinking that it's just not possible.

But the successful printing, packaging and label companies don't let this stop them.

These printers identify what stops the integration from working and use this knowledge to create the smart factory of the future. Find out their secrets, problems they uncovered and the solutions they came up with.

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"Before I became MD, I joined Tharstern as a software developer. This was back in the early days of Management Information Systems, when they were little more than glorified calculators. Even back then, I dabbled in a number of integration solutions – Heidelberg’s Data Control product for one, which used a handshake of text files, the make-up of which played a massive part in the JDF structure. Manroland’s PECOM system was another, which used a technology called CORBA as a means to communicate. These companies were way ahead of the curve.

When I got involved with JDF, the technology geek in me was thrilled at the opportunity that this would present MIS providers, and I have spent the last 14 years since then working with customers and other industry vendors to achieve the level of integration that we enjoy today. But it never ceases to amaze me, when I know the technology that’s available, how many companies fail to achieve their automation goals. If you’re waiting for some magic plug-and-play technology to come along and slot in to the way you currently operate and just work… well, it’s never going to happen, no matter what industry you’re in." - Keith McMurtrie, CEO