MIS to Workflow Integration: Getting Production to Flow

Putting Data to Good Use

Freeport Press does a lot of short-run work, completing more than 10,0000 makereadies in 2009. Its scheduler was extremely proficient, even using the home-grown, Excel-based program that the printer ran previously. Implementing PrintFlow, which can dynamically schedule the entire plant based on the production updates fed back upstream, has now freed him to spend about half the day doing Crystal Report writing so the company can capitalize on all of the production data it is receiving.