V2 IDC - pushing profits back up! - 10th May 2004 - 12/03/2004 - Tharstern Limited

12/03/2004 V2 IDC - pushing profits back up! - 10th May 2004

Pushing Profits back up!

As profit margins become increasingly tight, achieving near perfect production is one method of pushing your margins back up...

There are various ways to achieve this, but manual methods are often time consuming and inaccurate. Whilst other technologies like bar code readers and key pads speed up data collection, they are still too cumbersome for the modern Printer.

Running in Microsoft ubiquitous IE, the latest version of shop floor data collection from Tharstern takes full advantage of the latest .NET technologies.

Working with user-defined operation sequences, starting, stopping and interrupting both productive and non-productive operations, provides a speedy and accurate means of real time feedback, vastly improving communication between operators and the MIS.

An on-screen job bag removes the reliance on hard copies of out dated works instructions, and replaces them with real-time job information. Operators can also feedback production notes that automatically flag back to the job and the original estimate keeping everyone informed.

With full proof tracking for the pre-press arena, Tharstern IDC has never been more valuable.

The SP Group have recently installed TharsternSQL V2 and have already realised the benefits of IDC. Shaz Riaz, Group IT Manager, SP Group commented. “One of the real plus points for us is how easy to use and how informative Tharstern IDC is. Accuracy and entry speed are vital to our business.”

“Not only do we get a concise audit trail of production operations, but we can make better forecasts when it comes to scheduling jobs. From here we can give job progress feedback to customers in real-time. For the first time we are in a position where we can depend on the accuracy of data enough to base decisions on and so we can continually assess our workflows and look at ways to improve not just retrospectively but proactively.”

Paul Cook who has worked on developing IDC adds. “IDC V2 is actually our 2nd generation of browser based shop floor data capture. Working with our current users, we took an already successful product and created an even easier to use and more informative solution than ever. The less time an operator spends at a shop floor terminal keying in information, the more time they can spend doing their job”