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How Is a Press Made?
The production network stands for high-precision series production
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How Is a Press Made?
The Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG production network - for high-precision series production.
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"Our Know-How Is Stored in Many Heads"
Stephan Plenz, Head of the Heidelberg production network, speaks about organizational processes, management principles and core skills at the world's largest press factory.
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Presses for the World
One factory at three German sites: the Heidelberg production network in Amstetten, Brandenburg and Wiesloch-Walldorf.
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It All Starts with the Customer
Order management provides the link between markets and production. Customer requirements and market assessments create sales data and orders that trigger planning cascades and determine the pace of manufacturing and assembly.
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Hot Conditions for the Birth of a Press
The "noble parts" are cast and processed at the Amstetten site. High-precision bases, side frames and cylinders provide a stable structure for quality offset printing.
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The Parts Millionaire - Mechanical Manufacturing in Brandenburg
The Brandenburg plant is one of the main suppliers of mechanical parts for assembly and the global logistics center at the Wiesloch-Walldorf plant.
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Wiesloch-Walldorf Manufacturing Facility - Seven Stages at Once
Improved, faster, and more innovative with multifunctional processing centers - annual cost saving of 3.5 percent as a result of continuous improvement processes.
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The "Nervous System" of the Press
In the Wiesloch-Walldorf factory, Heidelberg produces electronic circuit boards, control cabinets and control systems for the Printmaster and Speedmaster press series and the Suprasetter platesetter.
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The Best on the Market
Heidelberg purchasing evaluates suppliers using criteria such as quality, price, flexibility, commitment to innovation, and reliability.
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The Right Place at the Right Time
Wiesloch-Walldorf plant logistics - a "large train station" for around 60,000 different parts and components that are synchronized with the demand in assembly and have to be delivered just in sequence to the assembly line.
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Assembly - the Emergence of a Gigantic Clockwork Mechanism
Around 70 percent of the production area at the Wiesloch-Walldorf plant is occupied by assembly.
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Heidelberg Without the "Heavy Metal''
Prepress is the first stage in the offset printing process chain: high-precision, effective plate imaging is a prerequisite for high-quality
end products.
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The Heidelberg Product Range
The core business of Heidelberg is the complete process and value added chain in sheetfed offset.
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A Clear Aim to Build on Our Lead
The Heidelberg Production System HPS is based on intelligent, innovative solutions that bring quality and efficiency - "breathing factories" - a culture of continuous improvement.
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Better, Faster, Cheaper
Technology development is introducing the latest technological findings and methods to press production, while value analysis is reducing production costs.
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Learning from the Bottom up
People are a key success factor - Heidelberg attaches great importance to training, while demographic change is increasing competition for the workers of tomorrow.
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Quality from the Outset and All the Way Along the Line
The Heidelberg tree of key figures makes it possible to evaluate requirements and criteria and therefore determine the progress that has been made.
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APO Works Out the Best Plans
New planning system takes capacities into account and makes production transparent.
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New Press. New Format. New Markets.
A new generation of products in Wiesloch-Walldorf - Heidelberg is extending its portfolio upwards by introducing the "very large format".
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First Heidelberg Production Site in Asia
In the Qingpu industrial zone near Shanghai, China, folders, small and medium-format presses are assembled for the Chinese market.
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Perfect End Results
Heidelberg Postpress rounds off the production line in offset printing with finishing systems.
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24-Hour Delivery Worldwide
Wiesloch-Walldorf (Germany), Indianapolis (U.S.) and Tokyo (Japan) - with networked logistics centers in three time zones, Heidelberg ensures the high availability of spare parts for its offset printing systems, prepress and postpress machines.
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The Largest and Most Modern Press Factory in the World
50 years of the Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG plant in Wiesloch-Walldorf – built in 1957 on fields next to the railway track - prerequisite for and symbol of success.
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Sixfold Precision - the All-Seeing Eye!
Offset printing is a highly complex process and requires accuracies to within a few thousands of a millimeter and milliseconds.
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