PRINT 09 MUST SEE 'EMS Committee Identifies Core Technologies for Today's Printing Industry

Whether a printer-created approach, or via CIP4's Job Definition Format (JDF), computers and MIS are the key components of integrated automation. Production floor feedback to MIS offers a wide range of information that, if acted upon, can improve operations. However, often lacking, the Committee notes, are the analytical software skills and computer savvy to turn available data into actionable improvements by utilizing the data in follow-on applications such as statistical process control. Other functions that benefit from IT competency are, for example, addressing/mailing and digital asset management operations.