Top Spot in the "Best Cost/Benefit Realization" Category at the CIPPI Awards 2006 Goes to druckpunkt Druckerei und Repro
10/16/2006
- Prinect delivers key economic benefits
- Award handed over at Graph Expo in Chicago
- Heidelberg customers win further awards
Berlin-based druckpunkt Druckerei und Repro came top in the
"best cost/benefit realization" category at the CIPPI
Awards 2006 using the Prinect workflow developed by Heidelberger
Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg). The company was able to turn around
its productivity and cost-efficiency thanks to the Heidelberg
Prinect Printready prepress workflow and the Prinect Prinance MIS.
In prepress, for example, job throughput doubled. Moreover,
production data can now be accessed on demand and provides a
transparent means of accurately calculating actual costs. At
approximately 3.3 million Euro between 2004 and 2008, the potential
savings achievable with the integration solution put it among the
top candidates at this year's awards. The solution took first
place in the "best cost/benefit realization" category.
Harry Haker, CEO of druckpunkt, accepted the award from Jim Harvey,
Executive Director of the CIP 4 organization. It was presented at
the Heidelberg booth at Graph Expo in Chicago in the presence of
Dr. Jürgen Rautert, Board Member responsible for Engineering
and Manufacturing at Heidelberg.
"Using Prinect put us in a position to substantially optimize our workflows and, at the same time, introduce greater transparency into all our jobs. We were also able to use the savings and productivity benefits delivered by Prinect for new investments such as creating our very own postpress section," stated Haker when receiving the award.
"There is still frequent debate in the industry over the scale of the yields produced by integrated workflow solutions, but the success of our customers at the CIPPI Awards 2006 speaks for itself. Heidelberg integrated workflow solutions have been shown to give users considerable economic advantages in several areas of real practical relevance," commented Dr. Rautert, referring to how Heidelberg customers performed at this year's CIPPI Awards.
Overall, the CIPPI Awards 2006 proved that software workflow solutions from Heidelberg offer users exceptional potential for maximizing savings and productivity. The open and modular Prinect workflow system from Heidelberg has enabled Heidelberg customers to achieve outstanding economic benefits - both in combination with third-party workflows and as a complete system from a single source. Four of the six top-placed participants use Heidelberg solutions, three of them employing complete systems. The highest net present value (NPV) of all candidates was achieved by Mediahaus Biering from Munich, which operates a complete solution from Heidelberg. The customer's investment calculations - based on a period of five years leading up to 2007 - estimated that implementing an end-to-end Prinect Color Solutions concept from Heidelberg would result in savings of some 8.3 million Euro. In contrast, the total investment required to achieve these savings is approximately 250,000 Euro.
Two further Heidelberg customers come top in other CIPPI Award categories
Mediahaus Biering, Munich: The bulk of this company's business involves extremely high-quality commercial work. It first began using Prinect Color Solutions in 2003. The benefits of standardizing the production process included a significant reduction in makeready times and paper waste. This illustrates how Prinect Color Solutions brings quality benefits in a cost-effective manner. By 2007, savings achieved thanks to the Heidelberg color workflow will amount to around 8.3 million Euro. The company came second in the "Most innovative use of process automation technology in an implementation" category at this year's CIPPI Awards.
Das Druckhaus Beineke Dickmanns, Kaarst-Büttgen: By using a Heidelberg Prinect prepress workflow and Prinect Prinance, this company was able to integrate previously isolated processes and procedures into a single end-to-end concept. This increased prepress data security and enabled the company to double productivity in terms of job throughput while maintaining the same number of employees. Savings from the Heidelberg workflow are expected to run to a total of approximately 1.4 million Euro between 2005 and 2009. In contrast, the total investment required was approximately 210,000 Euro. The workflow concept took second place in the "Biggest improvement in efficiency and customer responsiveness as a result of process automation" category at the CIPPI Awards.
Image:
Harry Haker, CEO of druckpunkt (right), accepts the award from Jim Harvey, Executive Director of the CIP 4 organization (left), at the Heidelberg booth at Graph Expo in Chicago in the presence of Dr. Jürgen Rautert, Board Member responsible for Engineering and Manufacturing at Heidelberg and James Dunn, President of Heidelberg USA.
About CIP4:
CIP4 provides a forum for manufacturers, consultants and users from the print media industry and related branches. Together, they encompass a vast range of machinery, software, peripherals and workflows. In special workgroups, CIP4 members develop the Job Definition Format (JDF), PrintTalk and other key process automation standards, based on users' requirements. They also test product interplay and develop the necessary JDF tools. For information about CIP4 and details on how to become a member, please see the organization's website at www.cip4.org
Further information for journalists:
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
Corporate Communications
Matthias Hartung
Tel.: +49 (0)6221 92 50 77
Fax: +49 (0)6221 92 50 46
E-mail: matthias.hartung@heidelberg.com
"Using Prinect put us in a position to substantially optimize our workflows and, at the same time, introduce greater transparency into all our jobs. We were also able to use the savings and productivity benefits delivered by Prinect for new investments such as creating our very own postpress section," stated Haker when receiving the award.
"There is still frequent debate in the industry over the scale of the yields produced by integrated workflow solutions, but the success of our customers at the CIPPI Awards 2006 speaks for itself. Heidelberg integrated workflow solutions have been shown to give users considerable economic advantages in several areas of real practical relevance," commented Dr. Rautert, referring to how Heidelberg customers performed at this year's CIPPI Awards.
Overall, the CIPPI Awards 2006 proved that software workflow solutions from Heidelberg offer users exceptional potential for maximizing savings and productivity. The open and modular Prinect workflow system from Heidelberg has enabled Heidelberg customers to achieve outstanding economic benefits - both in combination with third-party workflows and as a complete system from a single source. Four of the six top-placed participants use Heidelberg solutions, three of them employing complete systems. The highest net present value (NPV) of all candidates was achieved by Mediahaus Biering from Munich, which operates a complete solution from Heidelberg. The customer's investment calculations - based on a period of five years leading up to 2007 - estimated that implementing an end-to-end Prinect Color Solutions concept from Heidelberg would result in savings of some 8.3 million Euro. In contrast, the total investment required to achieve these savings is approximately 250,000 Euro.
Two further Heidelberg customers come top in other CIPPI Award categories
Mediahaus Biering, Munich: The bulk of this company's business involves extremely high-quality commercial work. It first began using Prinect Color Solutions in 2003. The benefits of standardizing the production process included a significant reduction in makeready times and paper waste. This illustrates how Prinect Color Solutions brings quality benefits in a cost-effective manner. By 2007, savings achieved thanks to the Heidelberg color workflow will amount to around 8.3 million Euro. The company came second in the "Most innovative use of process automation technology in an implementation" category at this year's CIPPI Awards.
Das Druckhaus Beineke Dickmanns, Kaarst-Büttgen: By using a Heidelberg Prinect prepress workflow and Prinect Prinance, this company was able to integrate previously isolated processes and procedures into a single end-to-end concept. This increased prepress data security and enabled the company to double productivity in terms of job throughput while maintaining the same number of employees. Savings from the Heidelberg workflow are expected to run to a total of approximately 1.4 million Euro between 2005 and 2009. In contrast, the total investment required was approximately 210,000 Euro. The workflow concept took second place in the "Biggest improvement in efficiency and customer responsiveness as a result of process automation" category at the CIPPI Awards.
Image:
Harry Haker, CEO of druckpunkt (right), accepts the award from Jim Harvey, Executive Director of the CIP 4 organization (left), at the Heidelberg booth at Graph Expo in Chicago in the presence of Dr. Jürgen Rautert, Board Member responsible for Engineering and Manufacturing at Heidelberg and James Dunn, President of Heidelberg USA.
About CIP4:
CIP4 provides a forum for manufacturers, consultants and users from the print media industry and related branches. Together, they encompass a vast range of machinery, software, peripherals and workflows. In special workgroups, CIP4 members develop the Job Definition Format (JDF), PrintTalk and other key process automation standards, based on users' requirements. They also test product interplay and develop the necessary JDF tools. For information about CIP4 and details on how to become a member, please see the organization's website at www.cip4.org
Further information for journalists:
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
Corporate Communications
Matthias Hartung
Tel.: +49 (0)6221 92 50 77
Fax: +49 (0)6221 92 50 46
E-mail: matthias.hartung@heidelberg.com
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