CIP4 Announces 2008 CIPPI Award Winners

Pragati Offset is the first winner of the Emerging markets award. Prior to implementation the company used a home-grown MIS for front office operations such as estimating, order entry, and billing, but job planning was still done manually. They wanted to move to automated job planning, eliminate re-keying, and introduce built-in parameters to eliminate manual planning errors. With support from EskoArtwork and Lithotechnics, Pragati Offset eliminated incorrect impositions and increased production speed, created clearer printouts of layouts for the operators, made old order imposition diagrams available in the database, - all benefits that made management of operations easier. They even integrated the exchange of JDF production data with corporate SAP ERP systems. “They made an efficient integration of their systems in a short amount of time,” said CIPPI Review Panel Judge Stephan Jaeggi of PrePress-Consulting. “And their application of SAP interconnectivity with data coming to and from the Metrix planning and imposition system is a great example of how JDF opens the door to new possibilities.”