Commercial printing
- Printing order calculation.
- Client, suppliers and subcontractors 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.
Book, magazine and newspaper production
- 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.
Flexible packaging production
- 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.
Labels production
- 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.
Flexographic printing
- 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.
Textile printing
- Support for printing technologies on finished products.
- Printing on fabric rolls.
- Ink and chemical inventory management for textile printing.
- Ability to describe and record post-printing production processes: cutting, assembly, sewing, and more.
- Support for printing technologies on natural and synthetic fabrics.
- Printing of semi-finished products (printing white fabrics) and finished products.
- Printing on 3D surfaces.
- Material inventory management for post-printing processing.
PSystem manages technological and production processes for textile printing. It supports technologies for applying printed images to both finished products and unprepared white fabric in rolls.
The MIS system enables production management of both finished goods and intermediate semi-finished products. It supports printing technologies for natural and synthetic fabrics. PSystem can manage the printing department of a textile mill producing fabrics and finished goods.
Small-scale printing
- Quick order calculations based on templates for basic products.
- Order placement based on emails.
- Prompt registration of order stages in production.
- Automatic material write-offs when registering completed orders.
- Automatic invoice generation and payment registration.
The system enables fully automated production accounting at companies producing short-run products (starting with a single copy). Integration with WebToPtint systems for product mockup creation and preliminary cost calculations enables fully automated operation of the short-run production department. Invoice generation, order payment registration, production accounting, and material write-offs for consumption at production sites are all performed automatically, without operator intervention.
Screen printing
- Screen printing plate production accounting.
- Ink and varnish consumption accounting based on the percentage of printed sheet area.
- Ability to account for the drying and polymerization processes of printed prints.
- Management of complex technological processes, including screen printing and other printing types.
- Chemical accounting for printing plate production.
- Ensuring the operation of the screen printing department within the integrated printing house production process.
The system facilitates the management of both stand-alone printing houses using screen printing technology for ink and varnish application, as well as screen printing departments within offset, flexographic, and digital printing houses.
It enables preliminary calculations and actual accounting of screen printing inks and varnishes based on the types of substrates being printed and the percentage of ink and varnish application. It supports job-based accounting of chemical reagents required for screen printing plate production and dye polymerization during the image application process, as well as accounting of semi-finished screen printing plate products.
Souvenirs and gifts production
- A specialized directory of souvenirs for image printing, including all standard parameters and images.
- Standard technological processes are used and linked to the types of souvenir products. This solution is based on the fact that the image printing method depends on the material on which it is applied. The technological process itself is a strictly defined sequence of production operations.
- A specialized souvenir order form allows you to quickly select souvenirs from the directory, link one or more images to each, automatically generate a description of the production process, receive a detailed order estimate, and prepare all production and commercial documents.
- Ability to describe various packaging, assembly, and delivery options as separate technological operations.
- Use of specialized planning algorithms to optimize souvenir production processes.
PSystem as a souvenir management information system solves more than just order costing, which is generally straightforward.
PSystem calculates waste, allowing for the initial quantity of semi-finished products to be ordered, calculates material and tooling requirements, and determines the planned time for individual process operations.
As a result, MIS allows for the preparation of all necessary production assignments, planning the production process taking into account the sequence of technological operations and the integration of elements of different orders within a single operation (e.g., the production of clichés and films), organizing control over the production process, and analyzing the results of order fulfillment in terms of further process optimization.
Wide format printing
- Accounting for printing on flexible and rigid surfaces.
- Printing of extra-large format products.
- Calculation and production accounting for illuminated signs and boxes.
- Capabilities for technological description and production of 2D and 3D products.
- Assistance in managing installation processes.
- Description of the production of products for point-of-sale applications, interior design, outdoor advertising elements, and building decoration.
MIS PSystem enables the management of production processes for the manufacture of point-of-sale elements, interior design, illuminated signs and boxes, outdoor advertising elements, and street and building design.
3-D printing
- Support for FDM, SLA, and SLS technologies.
- 3D printing material accounting.
- Ability to describe fill percentages during layer-by-layer printing.
- Post-print processing.
- Storing print files in the order form.
- Ability to provide detailed product descriptions.
- Description and accounting of product assembly from individual parts.
MIS PSystem enables the description of both simple 3D printed products and complex composite parts consisting of elementary parts at any nesting level. It enables the description and subsequent production planning and accounting of component parts printed using various 3D printing technologies: FDM, SLA and SLS. It also manages the production of component parts manufactured using various technologies, as well as subsequent post-printing processing and assembly.