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Equipment Product Information Prinect Business 2020 August 2019
Product Information | Prinect Business 2020 Dear Prinect user, the Prinect Team at Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG is pleased to announce the availability of the new Prinect Business version 2020 and to provide you with an overview of the key innovations in this document. This includes the news of the latest Prinect Business Manager version 7.21 within Prinect 2020 and also gives some further info about the latest status of our Smart BI solution (Business Intelligence). In this document, we are breaking new ground. You will find a large number of links to in-depth information. They decide whether the new features are so rele- vant to them that they want more information. We then forward them to the new "Prinect Newsroom" or the "Prinect Online Help", where they can find more in- depth information, be it videos, texts or PowerPoints. Prinect Business Manager 7.21 – What’s new: - Automatic estimating and full integration with Prinect production workflow for hardcover books - Extended and more precise calculation of material consumption - Higher flexibility in creation of process nets and product type predefinition - Better support of Cutstar machines and extended cutting processes - Extensions for the integrated milestone system - Improved integration with Prinect production workflow, e.g. concerning hand- ling of special pages and imposition rules We hope you enjoy looking through the document and look forward to your feed- back as to whether this new approach will make it easier for you to get started with a new Prinect version. The table of contents on the next page will give you an initial overview. In addition the online tool "Prinect Know How" is available for the details; every change is documented there. IMPORTANT: For the integration of Prinect Business Manager 7.21 with the Prinect production workflow, a version Prinect 2020 is required. Copyright © 2019 Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG. All rights reserved August 2019 For internal use only 2
Product Information | Prinect Business 2020 Content 1 From offer to finished hardcover book with Prinect 2020 4 1.1 Extended product type preconfiguration (video) 5 1.2 Adapted and extended automatic estimating 5 1.3 Higher flexibility in the creation of process nets (video) 5 2 Extensions and improvements in Prinect Business Manager (MIS) 6 2.1 New calculation of material consumptions 6 2.2 Extended cutting processes 7 2.3 Higher flexibility for the support of printing machines with Cutstar 7 3 Improved integration of Prinect Business and Prinect Production 8 3.1 Improved support of special pages (with Cell Index) 8 3.2 Precise predefinition of imposition rules in the MIS 8 3.3 Increased flexibility in the use of integrated job milestones 9 3.4 Variable definition of sheet names in Prinect Business Manager 9 3.5 Further extensions and improvements in Prinect Business Manager in Prinect 2020 9 4 Reporting 10 4.1 Reporting and Business Intelligence with Prinect Smart BI 10 System / Infrastructure 5 System Infrastructure 13 Copyright © 2019 Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG. All rights reserved August 2019 For internal use only 3
Product Information | Prinect Business 2020 1 From offer to finished hardcover book with Prinect 2020 Producing hardcover books requires work steps and calculation rules uncommon in pure commercial print shops. Prinect 2020 can consider these steps and definitions while calculating the book with the Prinect Business Manager and then hand them over to the Prinect Production system. Get an insight into the extensions of the system - which can handle the more complex workflow requirements of hard cover book production with this video. Some of the enhancements can also be beneficial for commercial printers produc- ing exquisite print products. For a precise and highly automated calculation of hardcover books, the following extensions have been implemented in Prinect Business Manager (MIS): Extended product type preconfiguration (video) Extended folding scheme configuration (video) Adapted and extended automatic estimating process Higher flexibility in creation of process nets by introduction of “Finishing Types” (video) Beside these extensions, that have been developped with the focus for hardcover book production, the following genereic extensions in Prinect 2020 will be used for the hardcover calculation and production as well: o Compeletely revised and massively extended definition and automatic calculation of material consumptions (see chapter 2.2) o Improved support of special pages (like flaps) for automatic identifcation in layout creation and page assignment (see chapter 4.1) o Flexible imposition rules, e.g. to automate and simplyfy the handling of mounting blocks in the Prinect production workflow, triggered by the MIS (see chapter 4.2) A good overview and further details on hardcover book calculation are also available in an overview presentation and in the related training document. Copyright © 2019 Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG. All rights reserved August 2019 For internal use only 4
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1.1 Extended product type preconfiguration (video)
Product types can now be defined much more detailled, especially taking into account speical demands for hardcover
books like:
Flexible assignment of imposition processes individually for each product part (e.g. 1 page per folding scheme)
Definition of a calculation type for each product part (e.g. type “caseboard” for the caseboard front)
Hardcover-related calculation and correction factors (e.g. increase height of book cover by 2 mm)
1.2 Adapted and extended automatic estimating
With the Speed Estimator all product parts as well as the total product will be automatically calculated including precise
formats and all required production steps. This also includes the calculation of the book spine, that is taken for the for-
mat definition of all related book parts (like the spineboard or the dust cover).
Your benefit:
Precise cost calculation with less manual work
Detailled (automatic) predefinition of production already during estimate reduces touchpoints
1.3 Higher flexibility in the creation of process nets (video)
To meet the demands for the production of more complex products, like hardcover books, the flexibility in the creation
of process nets has been significantly increased.
Now it can be flexibly predefined which product parts should be used for certain Finishing processes when the automatic
estimating is executed.
Example: Threadstitching of a hardcover book is only related tot he inner book block, the following glueing process also
includes the endsheets.
Your benefit:
Reduced efforts in job preparation and production
Higher accuracy in product definition reduces errors in production
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Product Information | Prinect Business 2020 2 Extensions and improvements in Prinect Business Manager (MIS) Beside the integrated calculation and production of hardcover books, many other improvements and new features have been implemented in Prinect Business Manager with the target to reduce toucpoints, optimize estimating and material management. An overview presentation and a video summarize the most important news of the latest version Prinect Business Manager 7.21 (incl. the extensions for hardcover book production) 2.1 New calculation of material consumptions Material costs take very often at least half of the total cost of a print job. Beside paper or substrates also other materials like foils or glue can have a high cost value. To support this during the estimating, free definable rules vor a very precise calculation of material consumptions have been introduced with Prinect 2020. A comfortable rule editor using a high amount of predefined variables provides the possibility for each customer to de- fine specific material consumption rules taylormade excactly for his demand. In addition the number of materials sup- ported by each production process has been extended to 6 materials (before just 1 material per process step). Your benefit: Higher accuracy for the calculation of production costs Improved and more efficient material logistics by precisely calculating all required materials for each job. A good overview and further details on the new material consumption calculation is also available in the related training document for hardcover book production. Copyright © 2019 Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG. All rights reserved August 2019 For internal use only 6
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2.2 Extended cutting processes
With the new cutting option “Cutting off outer edges” cutting processes can be defined with a higher precision according
to the abilities of the Finishing devices of a printshop.
Scenario: Printshop uses a folding machines with the ability to cut positions inline
Sheets with multiple ups will be delivered to the folding machines and separated inline
Demand: In the estimating process a cutting process should be inserted automatically before folding to
provide a sheet to the folding machine, where all the gaps (e.g. for color bars, gripper, ect.)
have already ben cut off.
Result: Folding machine delivers folded sheets in the endformat (already cut to single positions)
Your benefit:
Higher flexibility in production
Optimzed use (automatically) of best production path including inline capabilities of folding machines
2.3 Higher flexibility for the support of printing machines with Cutstar
Prinect Business Manager now enables a direct comparison during the estimate of the production costs, working with or
without the Cutstar module at the press (and thereby using roll or sheets).
This allows the printshop a flexible decision about the use of the Cutstar related to lowest production costs
Details on this new feature are also available in the Service Info Prinect Business Manager V7.21 from page 35
Your benefit:
Save cost by automatically finding the most profotbale operation mode for Cutstar machines
Copyright © 2019 Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG. All rights reserved August 2019 For internal use only 7Product Information | Prinect Business 2020 3 Improved integration of Prinect Business and Prinect Production A crucial success factor for a smart and efficient printshop is the integration between the adminstrative areas (like esti- mating, quoting, material purchase, delivery, etc.) and the production area. Heidelberg fulfills this demand with the seamless integration between Prinect Business and Prinect Production. In Prinect2020 this integration has been optimized and new features have been added. Below we give you an insight on these extensions and how this can reduce touchpoints and manual efforts and also in- crease security in production. 3.1 Improved support of special pages (with Cell Index) The automatic identification of special pages (e.g. flaps) in the Signa Station according to the predefinition in the MIS now enables a precise and automatic layout generation also for products wit special pages Your benefit: Higher automation, reduced manual efforts and less errros Details on this new feature are also available in the Service Info Prinect Business Manager V7.21 from page 19 3.2 Precise predefinition of imposition rules in the MIS To simplify and automate the handling of specialities like PDF files where all pages of a product parts are aggregated in a mounting block, new imposition rules (defined in the MIS) have been introduced. You can flexibly predefine how many pages should be assigned to a foling scheme, separate for each product part Your benefit: Higher flexibility and automation in PDF handling with less manual interactions Details on this new feature are also available in the Service Info Prinect Business Manager V7.21 from page 15 . as well as in a related video. Copyright © 2019 Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG. All rights reserved August 2019 For internal use only 8
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3.3 Increased flexibility in the use of integrated job milestones
With Prinect 2019 we have introduced an integrated mile-
stone system, enabling the order manager to define in
detail all required milestones for a job and transfer and
visualize this info automatically in the Prinect production
workflow.
With Prinect 2020 these milestones can now be defined
much earlier, directly after the job has been created in the
MIS (in Prinect 2019 this was only possible after the job
has been sent to production)
Your benefit:
Reduces the risk of scheduling conflicts
3.4 Variable definition of sheet names in Prinect Business Manager
A fast and easy identification of print sheets at the press console is very important for the printer to avoid any delays and
frictions at the job preparation.
To fulfil this expectation, we have extended the possibilities to supply all relevant information directly in the sheet name.
With a preconfiguration using a flexible tag system, the MIS will already assign relevant info like section number or ver-
sion info directly to the sheet name and transfer this info also automatically to the press console.
Your benefit:
Reduces the danger of wrong assignments
at the press and manual efforts for the printer
Details on this new feature are also available in the Service Info Prinect Business Manager V7.21 from page 9 .
as well as in a related video.
3.5 Further extensions and improvements in Prinect Business Manager in Prinect 2020
Please find below a list of further improvements for Prinect Business Manager in the version 7.21 (Prinect 2020).
Details on these improvements are also available in the Service Info Prinect Business Manager V7.21
Higher precision and flexibility in calculation of waste for General Finishing processes (video)
Support of „special runs“ now also available for web presses (e.g. speed depending on paper type)
Free configuration for each product part for the counting of pages (e.g. show in quote or not)
Improved assigment of versions to positions (on the sheet)
Better link between transport positions and packing instructions
Higher flexibility in the handling of “special” product parts (e.g. insert of a brochure)
Possibility to block binding intents
Improved visualization of the process net (video)
Transfer of workstep names from MIS to Postpress production (video)
Copyright © 2019 Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG. All rights reserved August 2019 For internal use only 9Product Information | Prinect Business 2020 4 Reporting To increase the efficiency of a Printshop and establish a real Smart Printshop, it is crucial to measure and evaluate all relevant data in order to make the right decisions. Prinect Business supports this task with a wide range of tracking and reporting functionalities and a powerful Business Intelligence solution: Prinect Smart BI. 4.1 Reporting and Business Intelligence with Prinect Smart BI Prinect Smart BI is a cloud-based (SaaS) Business Intelligence platform that presents data results from both Prinect Business Manager and Prinect Production. Its main purpose is to help executives, business managers and operational workers to take better and more informed decisions. Prinect Smart BI presents analytical findings in interactive reports, charts and dashboards and is available in two modules: Business and Production. In the Business module of Smart BI, you can analyze your sales figures, profitability, deliveries and much more. It is a great tool for spotting trends, identifying sources of income and ways of reducing costs, and so make smart decisions to drive the strategy of your printing shop. In the production module of Smart BI you can analyze the productivity of your print shop in more detail. In this way you can spot differences in the machines, visualize the trends of production and control important figures like waste and make ready time. In doing so, you can develop strategies to increase productivity and make you print shop produce even more cost efficient. Copyright © 2019 Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG. All rights reserved August 2019 For internal use only 10
Product Information | Prinect Business 2020 With the personalized dashboards, you can easily choose your preferred charts and build your personal overview of your printing company. With the intuitive and easy to use interface of Microsoft Power BI, you can also easily build your own reports and distribute the learnings internally in your organization. Prinect Smart BI will assist users to address the following general areas: Accelerating and improving decision making Optimizing internal processes Increasing operational efficiency Spotting problems that need to be addressed Developing strategies to increase productivity and profitability Driving new revenues Gaining competitive advantages over business rivals Identifying market trends What is new in the version Prinect 2020 Prinect Smart BI offers a set of standard reports assorted for business and production purposes. With the standard re- ports, you can start to use Smart BI immediately. The reports are interactive: By clicking on a point of interest, the report will interact based on the current selection (e.g. one specific press out of all presses, one specific time range, etc.). You can easily adapt existing reports to your needs or also create entirely new reports with few clicks. Following standard reports are available: Copyright © 2019 Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG. All rights reserved August 2019 For internal use only 11
Product Information | Prinect Business 2020 Business Module: Customer Analysis Deliveries Invoices Job Costs Messaged Profitability Sales Order Intake Production module: Last 10 days control OEE Operators Performance and utilization Sheetfed – MR Analysis Sheetfed color Waste Workload and seasonality Please check also the Video Tutorials and the Prinect Smart BI Help for more information (English/German) Copyright © 2019 Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG. All rights reserved August 2019 For internal use only 12
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System / Infrastructure
5 System Infrastructure
The system requirements for Prinect Business in the version Prinect 2020 (Prinect Business Manager 7.21) have not
changed dramatically, but we would like to mention two points here:
For the Prinect Business Manager Client we recommend a minimum of 8 GByte RAM memory
When the Prinect Business Manager implementation will be extended with the Prinect Smart BI solution
(see chapter 4), it has to be ensured that a Prinect common database is installed.
Detailed info is available in Prinect system requirements 2020 EN) and in the the overview on Prinect OperatingSystems
2020 en.pdf.
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