COMPUTER-INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING -- Making Customers' Work Flow

Brown has been working with a demo version of Ficelle, which is an Internet-based publication production management system that implements JDF. "We're looking to bring all the stakeholders together from the world of disconnect we have in a manual, or non-CIM, production environment," he says. "We want to allow for real-time, 24/7 access. We don't want clients just submitting jobs to a black hole any more."