By: E&P Staff Trinity Mirror Printing looked to Harland Simon to better manage information at its new plant in Birmingham, England, which runs four Goss Colorliner presses with Honeywell controls.
"Although we have a great production facility with excellent new presses and inserting equipment, we simply couldn't get the information that we needed to run the plant at the level of performance we aspire to," the plant's general manager, John Brewis, said in a statement.
Besides real-time information to improve on-the-fly decision-making, Brewis also wanted to collect data and produce reports in order to drive improvements. "We needed a system that increased the visibility of copy count throughout the line," he said in a statement, "so that edition lifts could be more accurate, reducing material waste and reducing the time spent waiting for counts to be checked."
Data that locate sources of waste were required, as was an easy-to-use system "that could collect or infer counts from folder to bundle" and record reasons for stops, Brewis continued, adding that the aim was "removing paper records from the administrative system."
The Harland Simon prima.net system installed in Birmingham sits beside the press management system, providing copy counts via existing copy counters throughout the press hall and publishing areas. Press operators use touch screens mounted on the control desks and the system. Brewis reported reduced waste in the first few weeks of the system's operation.
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