EFI Productivity Suite for corrugated packaging

Gabriel Matsliach, senior vice president and full general manager, EFI Productivity Software. Photo EFI

O ne of the biggest highlights of Connect 2015 was the introduction by EFI of the Productivity Suite strategy for packaging, enterprise commercial print and mid-market print. The idea is geared towards providing ameliorate stop-to- finish solutions and be a major enabler for integrating disparate workflow products into mainstream integrated solutions. During the Connect 2022, which was held in Las Vegas from 19 to 22 January, EFI debuted iii new Productivity Suites for the quick printing, publication impress and corrugated packaging segments. During his keynote, before detailing most the Productivity Suite for the corru gated packaging segment, Gabriel Matsliach, senior vice president and general manager, EFI Productivity Software fabricated the following observations, "Packag ing is a growing market whether it is tags and labels, flexible packaging, folding cartons or corrugated. Within packaging digital starts condign an important factor to a different extent in these different market segments. For some it is at an avant-garde stage and for some segments information technology is at an early stage. Just this is hap pening and there is no mode back. And so our responsibility is to provide better support for digital capabilities for packaging offerings."

With this responsibleness and obligation in mind, EFI last twelvemonth, made the move of acquiring Corrugated Technologies Incorporated (CTI), a leading provider of manufacturing execution software for the corrugated packaging marketplace that has extended its offer in recent years to also include business concern and direction capabilities, creating a leading software offering for sheet feeders, sheet plants, and total corrugated box plants. The Productivity Suite for the corrugated packag ing segment is evidently an extension of that move "Corrugated is a market of opportunity. Nosotros thought that nosotros are obliged, as a market place leader, to take good capability and engineering science to provide end-to-end workflow for corrugated packaging. Therefore, we made the move by acquiring CTI and to use that technology and know-how to be able to provide the corru gated suite," said Matsliach

The corrugated suite is an attempt to provide an terminate-to-end corrugated busi ness and productivity workflow capabilities to both canvass feeders, sheet plants, and full corrugated box plants by providing ERP capabilities combined with man ufacturing execution organization capabilities. On the ERP side there are many of the things that are well-known similar lodge acquisition and club promising, estimat ing, chore costing, tooling, purchasing, bookkeeping and invoicing. "Guild promising is a big commuter and a complex capability to offer in the corrugated infinite these days. And then it'due south a very circular-upwards capability around the basic business organization system and the ERP support," Matsliach stressed. On the manufacturing side there are multiple elements that would be very rel evant to corrugated plants but likewise for some folding carton customers that have some corrugated plants in their overall mix. Information technology offers corrugated scheduling and trimming, plant converting scheduling and planning, data collection and direct machine interface (DMI), roll stock inventory management, shipment planning, finished goods tracking and supply chain execution. As stressed earlier by Matsliach, digital is a big driver and EFI is making invest ments to bring in stronger digital capabilities into the package by the second quarter of 2022. It will exist leveraging Fiery in terms of connectivity for some digital devices. "So information technology'southward a very robust offering with elements that tin be provided equally an finish-to-terminate workflow too as standalone element that can enhance an existing environment," ended Matsliach.

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