MIS to Workflow Integration: Getting Production to Flow

"We identified what still worked and what didn't with the new system," Pilcher explains. "We also had to figure out what information was important to continue passing to production and how we were going to do it. We basically redid everything in our entire company."

Freeport brought the Foundation, Planner and Auto-Count DMI components of Monarch all online the same day, but waited almost six months before converting over to the PrintFlow automated scheduling system. Even given the somewhat older web presses the company had at the time, Pilcher says the Auto-Count system was relatively simple to install, so there was no reason not to include it in the first phase.