Real-Time Planning.

The key benefits of this new planning system, which is completely integrated in the Prinect workflow, include simple operation combined with high flexibility levels for planning changes, and high transparency in production workflows. The tight linkup to production enables the Prinect Scheduler to have an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of all print jobs at any time. The system offers wide-ranging opportunities for production planning, from semi-automatic planning of complete jobs – such as the earliest start or delivery date – down to detailed planning of individual production stages.

This electronic production planning system cuts schedulers’ daily workload substantially by providing them with a wide range of real-time information on production and flexible planning tools. If schedulers wish to plan several print jobs with the same spot colors or make provisional reservations for agreed jobs for example, they can do this directly using the electronic production planning system and immediately see the effects on overall planning.

The Prinect Scheduler shows whether the key milestones for print jobs, such as approval of the proof and the availability of printing plates and paper, have already been reached. It detects missed deadlines and indicates these immediately with a “traffic light system,” which means schedulers are able to see at a glance where everything is going to plan and where they need to intervene because deadlines are at risk. As well as schedulers, any other authorized printshop employee can access this information at his workstation. The electronic production planning system enables a transparent overview of production, the status of every individual print job, and the free and tied-up capacity of workstations in all areas of a printshop in real time.

The Prinect Scheduler offers schedulers flexible support in all aspects of production planning, whether these relate merely to resource planning in the pressroom and the deadlines for prepress and finishing worked out from this, or whether all areas need to be actively planned. Production changes in the complete workflow – including at the last minute – that have an impact on planning are updated in the planning board and can thus be viewed right away by all users.

The electronic production planning system integrated into the Prinect workflow means there is no need for complex and non-transparent planning using external software modules and a manual planning board. Prinect Scheduler also meets the demand from large numbers of customers for simple, constantly up-to-date, and production-related planning in the face of increasingly short throughout times and job changes at short notice.