CIM In Action -- Awaiting the Big Payoff

At Japs-Olson, all preset information is being sent to its presses for ink key presets. The information travels one way; Japs-Olson has written its own direct machine interface to get production feedback from the shop floor.

"We get important feedback from the floor in terms of how our production is doing," Murphy relates, "so we're able to track materials much more closely in terms of paper usage and waste. We're getting a lot more information back in terms of productivity, production status, etc."