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News Release from: Hiflex GmbH | Subject: Hiflex Management Information System
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 21 March 2007
Management Information System For
Estonian Printer
Quality, speed, creativity, and reliability are the priorities of Estonian printing company AS Iloprint, which is why it opted for the Hiflex Management Information System (MIS) and JDF.
Quality, speed, creativity, and reliability are the priorities of Estonian printing company AS Iloprint, which is why it opted for the Hiflex Management Information System (MIS) and JDF The software is claimed to open a new era of automating production and enhancing efficiency and productivity within the printing industry
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 27 Nov 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Rain Kaarma, managing director of AS Iloprint, explained: "In our every day work we combine technologies, know-how and service in order to provide our customers with innovative high-end products for their marketing.
We fulfil more than 6,000 orders per year, many of them consisting of numerous small operations.
In our niche, flexibility is crucial." He continued to explain the strategy behind his company's investment in the Hiflex MIS: "To increase flexibility and efficiency, our objective is to integrate all organisational and technical IT functions that are related to the production processes in one central IT system.
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This is only possible when bringing the administrative and the technical workflow together." And Lea Kimber, Iloprint's development director added: "The Hiflex MIS was created and developed by printing professionals.
Compared to local producers, Hiflex looks back to a long history of development and we believe that Hiflex has concentrated on what it does best - the printing business.
All the key people we have met at Hiflex have long term experience in printing, so they really know what their customers need.
They provide, along with the MIS, a considerable amount of printing knowledge." Managing director of Hiflex, Stefan Reichhart, commented: "Our business software covers all areas, from estimation through to job costing, invoicing and document management.
With the estimate, an accurate production plan is automatically generated that visualises the entire production sequence.
The relevant job data is transferred in to the Hiflex planning system where the job is automatically scheduled, observing all dependencies between the different processes." And Lea Kimber explained: "The Hiflex system really manages the job related communication processes efficiently and greatly improves order management." In the automated workflow the Hiflex MIS such functions as the JDF Controller manages and controls the joint usage of all data relevant to production.
Iloprint plans to implement JDF-connectivity between the Hiflex MIS, the Screen Trueflow PDF workflow management system and the printing presses from MAN Roland and Heidelberg.
Rain Kaarma said: "JDF-connectivity, as we have experienced it in action at Hiflex reference implementations, enhances transparency and flexibility throughout production.
This provides the basis for getting more out of valuable machines and systems." Stefan Reichhart expanded further: "The practical and economic benefits of JDF installations have been proven by award winning Hiflex users.
In the international CIP4 Innovation Award 2005 and 2006 Hiflex users were awarded four out of six awards and achieved second places in the remaining." Since its establishment in 1993, AS Iloprint has grown and its team now comprises 80 employees.
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