COMPUTER-INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING -- Systems that Serve a Greater Good

Agfa recently updated ApogeeX, its PDF- and JDF-based workflow solution. According to Hepditch, two key focuses of the upgrade are cost-effective fault tolerance and load balancing, for dynamic scaling of system resources. "System reliability is becoming a more critical issue as more of the major workflows are database driven," she notes. "Something still can go wrong with the hardware, so how do you recover if everything is tied into a database and you no longer have access to it?"