Order Portfolio

  • Printing order calculation.
  • Client base.
  • Production preparation.
  • Material consumption planning and reservations.
  • Production planning and dispatching.
  • Production accounting.
  • Operational production reporting.
  • Warehouse accounting.
  • Finished goods accounting, customer settlements, payment and shipping documents.
  • Cost calculation and production efficiency analysis.
  • Sales department performance analysis.
  • PSystemAccess access management subsystem.
  • PSystemExchange module – data exchange subsystem with external systems.
  • Product cost.
PSystem is a Management Information System (MIS) for printing and packaging production. It provides operational management of a printing house’s core production and business processes, as well as management accounting and performance analysis.

The solution for automating commercial printing management (production of advertising materials and products accompanying business activities) is the basic, core solution based on MIS PSystem.

Production Management (ERP)

  • Managing the production of books, magazines, catalogs, and newspapers using sheet-fed and web printing.
  • Automatic calculation of product parameters: spine thickness depending on the binding type, calculation of cover components: sides, rabbets, shims, shims, spine strip, endpapers, cover material dimensions, and dust jacket.
  • Automatic layout of product parts on printed sheets, calculation of sheet runs.
  • Production planning considering the parallel production of product components.
  • Calculation of a block consisting of notebooks using different paper stocks.
  • Management of in-line printing and finishing processes.
  • Production planning taking into account factors of supply of materials and semi-finished products.
  • Management of the production process, including machine and manual production.
A production process automation solution enables the use of various printing technologies in the production of books, magazines, and newspapers: offset, letterpress, gravure, screen, digital printing, and a variety of post-press processing.

Print order calculation allows for highly accurate production completion dates, taking into account the parallel execution of production processes.

PSystem functionality supports the ability to describe multi-roll machines equipped with one or more folding units.

Cardboard and corrugated cardboard packaging production

  • Description and costing of products according to FEFCO and ECMA standards.
  • Description and costing of custom products of any complexity.
  • Catalog of stamps and costing of finished stamps.
  • Description of technological processes, including prepress technologies and printing, corrugated cardboard production and lamination, and all postpress processes.
  • Highly accurate cost calculations: cardboard, materials, labor, tooling depreciation, returnable waste, etc.
  • Reservation of cardboard and materials for orders.
  • Production planning, equipment loading, shift assignments.
  • Detailed order progress tracking. Problems, downtime, material replacement. Production worker salaries.
  • Finished goods warehouses, shipment registration, customer doc-flow.
  • Planned/actual analysis of production and commercial activities. Analytics for management decision-making.
  • Integration with external systems.
PSystem enables quick and error-free calculation and order processing for cardboard and corrugated cardboard packaging.

Automated calculation of cardboard packaging based on the reuse of reference information accumulated by the MIS. This includes data from the packaging product directory, information on the use of stamps in the production process for various packaging types, and ink application parameters during the printing process.

The packaging product directory allows for automatic calculation of product layouts based on FEFCO and ECMA catalogs, as well as any non-standard cardboard and corrugated cardboard products. The system stores detailed stamp descriptions linked to product types, including stamp images.

Ink descriptions specified in the order of application, section by section, for the front and back. The system allows for setting standard ink consumption using both the print percentage and the print area. The initial data received from the prepress area.

Costs and Profits

  • Extrusion, multilayer film production, waste granulation.
  • Gravure, flexographic and digital printing.
  • The most complex process workflows.
  • Accurate cost calculations: film, ink, laminate, materials, labor, tooling depreciation, returnable waste, etc.
  • Film and material reservations for custom orders.
  • Film movement tracking by roll in production.
  • Compliance with food packaging requirements..
  • Production planning, equipment loading, shift assignments.
  • Detailed order progress tracking. Problems, downtime, material replacement. Production worker salaries.
  • Finished product warehouses, shipment registration, customer doc-flow.
  • Planned/actual analysis of production and commercial activities. Analytics for management decision-making.
The flexible packaging market is highly competitive. Fast and accurate calculations of incoming orders, taking into account all the intricacies of manufacturing a specific product, are essential. Calculating raw material and material requirements, inventory control, order reservations, and automated planning and control all lead to cost reduction and increased competitiveness.

Options

  • Label printing using various technologies: flexographic, offset, digital, and others.
  • Inline label printing and finishing.
  • Ability to process large quantities of labels.
  • Integration with prepress systems.
  • Production process management, including die-cutting.
  • Order costing based on prepress system input.
  • Order calculation in kilograms and pieces.
  • Consolidation of orders from different customers into a single, multi-part order.
Automation of label production management includes two solutions: for sheet-fed and narrow-web production.

The most complex technology to describe and calculate is roll-fed printing on equipment that includes various types of printing units (flexographic, offset, etc.), as well as a group of finishing units and die-cutting.

Reports and Analysis

  • Anilox printing plate accounting.
  • Flexible die-cutting plate accounting.
  • Accurate flexographic ink accounting.
  • Order run calculation in pieces and kilograms.
  • Laser die-cutting equipment management.
  • Combination of flexographic and digital image printing.
  • Product personalization (barcoding, numbering, fiscal labeling).
PSystem enables the calculation of roll-fed flexographic products (labels, tickets, stickers, doypack semi-finished products, etc.). Any number of printing and finishing sections of printing equipment, die selection/calculation, reuse of printing plate sets and aniloxes.

Die library management, automated nesting based on product runs. Reuse of ink placement order and print coverage information. Accurate calculation of cardboard and material consumption, planned cost, and final price.