Merlin Printing Reduces Waste and Improves Productivity Using CONNECT

Merlin Printing was facing problems finding a reliable way to collect machine and shop floor data from its vintage Heidelberg (Booth N1643) web offset presses. With growing demand, its manual data collection methods became inefficient, inaccurate, and outdated. Additionally, management needed access to accurate job cost data in order to better understand their makeready waste and the true cost of production for job versioning.

The Heidelberg presses were the place to start. Like most legacy conventional printing presses, there was no digital communication available to automatically collect data. This equipment needed to undergo a digital transformation to enable automatic connectivity. Once automatic data collection and analysis were in place, Merlin knew they could better understand their operation, run a smoother shop, and be more proactive in averting costly issues.