Economics 101

Globally Upgrade your Talent with EFI PrintFlow during Economically Challenging Periods

Contrary to the knee-jerk response of staff reductions, many human resources experts will tell you that there’s no better time to “upgrade” your talent than when things are slow. This economic climate is an excellent time to look at the contributions, expertise, and tools used by your staff and to evaluate how your staff performs their jobs and to identify where productivity improvements can be made. It’s s also a great time to make sure that you’re getting the most out of your overall workflow and the tools that support that workflow. Your ability to improve communication and increase throughput might not bolster the bottom line today, but as the economy picks up, better processes and practices will have a sustained impact on long-term success and profitability.

The implementation of a globally optimized workflow, driven by EFI™ PrintFlow Dynamic Scheduling, can provide this kind of sustainable process improvement. PrintFlow® streamlines your workflows by organizing jobs according to a combination of delivery priorities, equipment loads, operational sequences, and real-time shop floor status. It delivers a run list to each work center that’s not based on the last production meeting but on the most recent real-world conditions impacting your plant and its ability to perform. The results of this embedded, evolving intelligence is that you gain throughput, capacity utilization, and profit potential on an ongoing basis. Some clients have used PrintFlow’s “what if” scenario generator during slow periods to analyze work center utilization, greatly reducing overtime and the number of temporary workers required. Clients accomplish this by closing down unconstrained equipment for a period of time and moving those crews to constrained equipment. The result is better utilization and higher throughput with existing employees. This example is just one of many on how PrintFlow enables you to truly upgrade your talent by maximizing your production and profit potential.

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PrintFlow supports your business with an unlimited “What-if” capability that allows you to respond to real-world demands in real-time.

“In this fiercely competitive industry of diminishing returns—within a most challenging economy at present—it is critical to squeeze out the most productivity from every cost center in your printing company. We would not want to be in this industry in this economy without PrintFlow. It is the difference between mere survival and thriving”. —Mike Thornton, President, Progress Printing