Digital Finishing -- Making a Stitch in Time

The system uses job tickets and barcodes that feed information to proprietary software for tracking where a job is in the plant and where it needs to go. Algorithms prioritize what job gets worked on next at each station to meet delivery times.

“Since an order will get routed to the appropriate finishing station automatically, distance is not really a relevant measure for us,” says the COO. “We don’t put the bindery equipment right next to the (digital) press because we have specific binding areas.”