Define the essential parameters for each production run

Save the production details for repeat jobs

The Jobs module allows the user to define all aspects of both template and production jobs.
A production job provides all the information required to define a product that is to be produced in the near future. This information includes size, pagination, color fall, copy requirements and run times. Once a production job has been created it can be allocated to presses and becomes part of the production plan.

A template job provides essentially the same information but for products that run every day or every week, for example.

The important details are number of sections, pagination, colour fall, run times and copy requirements.

Impositions

Graphically create impositions for your products, within the press capabilities

Save each imposition for subsequent re-use

The Imposition module enables the user to create and maintain a catalogue of impositions that are used to produce the production jobs defined within the Jobs module.

The imposition creation tool provides the user with an extremely fast and accurate method of creating and adapting impositions that his presses are capable of running.

Each PRIMA MS is configured to be aware of all the press types and all the printing capabilities of each type of press for the site on which it is installed.

When creating an imposition for a given press type the user is first shown a mimic of the press with no paper. By selecting a reelstand, the user adds webs and a plate map is automatically created based on the webs chosen and product defaults.

It is also possible to turn half or quarter of a web and to include bayed webs, simply by ‘dragging and dropping’ with the mouse.

Planning

Provides a graphical view of the production plan

Can be easily amended as work is scheduled, to maintain press hall efficiency.

The Planning module enables the user to allocate his production jobs to presses, specifying as he does so the imposition, run times and copy requirements for each job on each press. Much of the work required to do this can be performed automatically by the system or the user can perform the task step by step.

The planning window, above, shows the production jobs allocated to each press. The plan can be created as far in advance as is desirable, showing each job planned to run in that period. Jobs that are actually running are shown in red, whilst those waiting to run are in green if they have an imposition allocated to them and brown if no imposition is allocated.

In order to place a job on the plan, the user must allocate it a running period and a number of copies to produce. This can be done manually, but is more likely to be done using the automatic scheduling tool. Before a job can be downloaded to a press, it must also have an imposition associated with it. This can be done at the time the job is first planned if the product specification is known, or can be easily added when that data becomes available.

Standard plans can also be created to use as templates for the production plan. For example, if a site runs roughly the same products at the same time each week, a standard plan could be set up containing these products such that it could be loaded as the production plan every Monday morning, prior to making any changes for this particular week.

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