Complete Integration of Print and Business Processes
05/17/2000
Integration scenario demonstrates networked media production o
Open interface basis for flexibility o WinKAAR for the business
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The goal of a digital production workflow is to integrate different applications and to make the entire process chain completely transparent and controllable. The various individual solutions which support the production process all need to be integrated in order to provide a complete solution. The vision: An end-to-end data flow featuring a modular software design. This is where Heidelberg offers its software solutions based on the "Computer Integrated Print Process (CIP)" business model. For the first practical application of the software integration concept, the company will be demonstrating various applications at drupa for media production via standardized interfaces with the industry software WinKAAR. Heidelberg's software developers have taken into account the requirements of small and medium-sized printshops, who rely on compact, flexible and cost-effective standard solutions.
This complete integration and coordination of business processes makes information universally available, renders cost structures transparent, and highlights the potential for savings and optimization. This is why the "vertical" integration of all job-related and business management data is just as relevant as the "horizontal" integration of the production data along the prepress-press-postpress chain.
In Hall 5, Heidelberg is completely digital
The integration scenario to be demonstrated at drupa 2000 includes Heidelberg products over the entire process chain and illustrates the interplay with WinKAAR. In the prepress sector, these products include the Prinergy workflow system, asset management with Jetbase and the imposition software Signastation. For the printing stage, the company is showing off its innovative CP2000 Center machine control system, the DataControl production and information system and Prepress Interface for press presets. Along with this are the software packages for folding and cutting operations.
The widely-available industry software WinKAAR from alphagraph team, which has been one of Heidelberg's cooperation partners since March of this year, supports interfaces to the various software components. WinKAAR supplies these software components with job-related data and after the relevant production step has been carried out, automatically receives all the data required for statistics and subsequent costing from the applications involved in the production process. There are plans to integrate WinKAAR into the Heidelberg product portfolio and Heidelberg's international sales structure towards the end of this year. In addition, further integrational links between workflow, planning and control systems are to be jointly developed.
In the heterogeneous product environment of print media businesses, open interfaces form the basis for linking the various software solutions and system controls. With this in mind, Heidelberg has agreed the joint standard interface JDF (Job Definition Format) with Adobe, Agfa and MAN Roland. This will allow manufacturer- and platform-independent networking and open up a whole new dimension in process automation. Following the announcement of the concept for this new interface at the Seybold Conference in Boston in February of this year, the interface will be presented next at drupa 2000 in Dusseldorf.
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Using software solutions from Heidelberg, networked media production can become reality. Open interfaces allow the integration of industry software with production data - from prepress to finishing.
For further information:
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
Hilde Weisser
Tel.: +49 (0)6221 92 50 66
E-mail: hilde.weisser@heidelberg.com
The goal of a digital production workflow is to integrate different applications and to make the entire process chain completely transparent and controllable. The various individual solutions which support the production process all need to be integrated in order to provide a complete solution. The vision: An end-to-end data flow featuring a modular software design. This is where Heidelberg offers its software solutions based on the "Computer Integrated Print Process (CIP)" business model. For the first practical application of the software integration concept, the company will be demonstrating various applications at drupa for media production via standardized interfaces with the industry software WinKAAR. Heidelberg's software developers have taken into account the requirements of small and medium-sized printshops, who rely on compact, flexible and cost-effective standard solutions.
This complete integration and coordination of business processes makes information universally available, renders cost structures transparent, and highlights the potential for savings and optimization. This is why the "vertical" integration of all job-related and business management data is just as relevant as the "horizontal" integration of the production data along the prepress-press-postpress chain.
In Hall 5, Heidelberg is completely digital
The integration scenario to be demonstrated at drupa 2000 includes Heidelberg products over the entire process chain and illustrates the interplay with WinKAAR. In the prepress sector, these products include the Prinergy workflow system, asset management with Jetbase and the imposition software Signastation. For the printing stage, the company is showing off its innovative CP2000 Center machine control system, the DataControl production and information system and Prepress Interface for press presets. Along with this are the software packages for folding and cutting operations.
The widely-available industry software WinKAAR from alphagraph team, which has been one of Heidelberg's cooperation partners since March of this year, supports interfaces to the various software components. WinKAAR supplies these software components with job-related data and after the relevant production step has been carried out, automatically receives all the data required for statistics and subsequent costing from the applications involved in the production process. There are plans to integrate WinKAAR into the Heidelberg product portfolio and Heidelberg's international sales structure towards the end of this year. In addition, further integrational links between workflow, planning and control systems are to be jointly developed.
In the heterogeneous product environment of print media businesses, open interfaces form the basis for linking the various software solutions and system controls. With this in mind, Heidelberg has agreed the joint standard interface JDF (Job Definition Format) with Adobe, Agfa and MAN Roland. This will allow manufacturer- and platform-independent networking and open up a whole new dimension in process automation. Following the announcement of the concept for this new interface at the Seybold Conference in Boston in February of this year, the interface will be presented next at drupa 2000 in Dusseldorf.
Image:
Using software solutions from Heidelberg, networked media production can become reality. Open interfaces allow the integration of industry software with production data - from prepress to finishing.
For further information:
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
Hilde Weisser
Tel.: +49 (0)6221 92 50 66
E-mail: hilde.weisser@heidelberg.com
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