JohnsByrne Co. -- Finding an Edge

But JohnsByrne—a $20 million per year printer that produces brochures, annual reports, direct mail pieces, catalogs, POP materials and specialty printing—had other ideas. Long a proponent of keeping its MIS on an extremely short leash, the idea of buying into a computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM) workflow seemed an attractive proposition. Thus, when the manufacturing collective of Komori, Creo and Printcafe provided JohnsByrne the opportunity to work side-by-side to make the "Smart Factory" solution a reality, the printer was happy to oblige.