WORKFLOW SOLUTIONS -- Can't Beat the System

Implementing a JDF workflow is said to have reduced the shop's makeready time for a saddlestitcher to 24 minutes from 85 minutes. This gain in productivity enabled it to eliminate a binding line (from three down to two), while producing 17 percent more books than in the previous year.

Kraft Druck und Verlag, of Ettlingen, Germany, was recognized for achieving the "biggest improvement in efficiency and customer responsiveness." It has implemented JDF/JMF to connect its Hiflex MIS to a Creo (now Kodak) Prinergy workflow system and the PECOM control system of its MAN Roland sheetfed presses. An important aspect of this solution is reporting all machine events back to the MIS via JMF for timely and accurate invoicing.