COMPUTER-INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING -- Making Customers' Work Flow

Christopher Wells, president and CEO of LaVigne Inc., in Worcester, MA, likes Mark Jones' PortalÆ HubÆPlant model for a CIM printing workflow. It just has to be turned on its ear a little to fit his multi-process, one-plant operation.

"We're developing multiple portals that funnel jobs to one hub to get crunched into a common set of data to then go through different workflows in our plant," Wells explains. The company has moved aggressively into print-on-demand digital services, including versioning and target marketing, but also has offset printing capabilities.