Automate your workflow to boost your productivity!
With the increasing number of jobs that businesses manage every day, it can be easy to get overwhelmed. With Konica Minolta’s technological expertise and experience, you won’t be.
Deliver the quality you need
We offer world-class workflow management solutions and workflow automation software to help you control and handle all incoming print jobs.
Workflow management systems help you define different workflows for different types of jobs or processes. In a print company, for example, a designed document might be automatically routed from the designer to an account handler and then to the prepress department.
Remind me again: what is a ‘workflow management system’?
Workflow management systems automate redundant tasks, and ensure uncompleted tasks are highlighted and followed up. They also control automated processes put in place to make administrative tasks like order processing redundant. The workflow reflects the dependencies required to complete each specific task.
Workflow automation can improve the quality of your output by reducing manual handling and human error, as well as speeding up turnaround times, so you can produce more work and increase revenue. After installing a workflow management system, you’ll wonder how you ever did without it.
Why is workflow so important?
Workflow is critical to success in the print business today because it can unify the different print technologies – such as offset, digital cut sheet, roll-fed and wide format devices – all of which require unique workflow processes for file preparation, print production and finishing. A print workflow consists of a sequence of connected steps having a work element that relates to machinery, the efforts of an individual, or a group of staff like account executives or press operators. The flow element refers to a print job that is being transferred from one step to another in the end-to-end manufacturing process.
Workflow animation
Animated workflow guidance is also available for certain features and troubleshooting tasks. This provides more visual direction of operating tasks and troubleshooting help for procedures such as paper jams and toner replacements.
An integrated workflow can prevent bottlenecks and utilise production capacity more efficiently. For print providers, improving workflow is the best way to focus attention and money and drive better business returns. It cuts costs by automating processes and reducing the number of human touches involved in those processes. Every time someone touches a product, it potentially costs time and money – but workflow management will free up your staff from time-consuming and error-prone routine tasks.
Workflow Automation
The only workflow platform you’ll need
For maximum efficiency and competitiveness, large and mid-size printing companies – and similarly, enterprises that print their communication digitally in-house – need to integrate their printing infrastructure and automate workflows wherever possible. By opting for Konica Minolta’s workflow platform systems AccurioPro Flux and AccurioPro Connect, print providers and in-house print room operators can automate prepress data processing by connecting and automating a range of prepress processes.
Digitisation has made this possible, as well as enabling seamless integration of offset equipment with digital printing systems. The enhanced efficiency of previously time-consuming prepress data processing brings dramatic productivity increases. Digitisation also supports automation, improves workflow efficiency, and facilitates waste reduction – all essential for healthy profitability.
Efficiency and flexibility with high-speed colour production printers
Lightning fast speeds, simple operation and powerful in-line finishing: our high-speed digital presses raise the bar in digital productivity by saving time and labour costs, as well as space on your production floor.
High productivity to enhance print profitability
The Accurio range of digital systems is designed to meet the growing needs of new generation digital challenges. Meticulously engineered for print providers and professionals, these systems offer outstanding colour reproduction and registration stability as well as being able to create digitalised files from hard copies, efficiently and reliably.
Create the reusable content you need
Do many of your regular print jobs, such as manuals, consist of various PDF files from different sources, such as cover, instructions, warranty, and a contact page? And does their content tend to change frequently, when products are relaunched or regulations change, for example? Updating such complex information is usually complicated and time-consuming.
This is where AccurioPro Compile can help, letting you create print projects that can be used again and again, even when the content changes. These print projects are linked to the source documents filed in different network locations so that only the latest file version is ever retrieved and used. As a result, several authors working on the same print project can maintain their contents independently, and only up-to-date documents are printed – without any manual intervention whatsoever.
The only workflow platform you’ll need
For maximum efficiency and competitiveness, large and mid-size printing companies – and similarly, enterprises that print their communication digitally in-house – need to integrate their printing infrastructure and automate workflows wherever possible. By opting for Konica Minolta’s workflow platform systems AccurioPro Flux and AccurioPro Connect, print providers and in-house print room operators can automate prepress data processing by connecting and automating a range of prepress processes.
Digitisation has made this possible, as well as enabling seamless integration of offset equipment with digital printing systems. The enhanced efficiency of previously time-consuming prepress data processing brings dramatic productivity increases. Digitisation also supports automation, improves workflow efficiency, and facilitates waste reduction – all essential for healthy profitability.
Efficiency and flexibility with high-speed colour production printers
Lightning fast speeds, simple operation and powerful in-line finishing: our high-speed digital presses raise the bar in digital productivity by saving time and labour costs, as well as space on your production floor.
High productivity to enhance print profitability
The Accurio range of digital systems is designed to meet the growing needs of new generation digital challenges. Meticulously engineered for print providers and professionals, these systems offer outstanding colour reproduction and registration stability as well as being able to create digitalised files from hard copies, efficiently and reliably.
Create the reusable content you need
Do many of your regular print jobs, such as manuals, consist of various PDF files from different sources, such as cover, instructions, warranty, and a contact page? And does their content tend to change frequently, when products are relaunched or regulations change, for example? Updating such complex information is usually complicated and time-consuming.
This is where AccurioPro Compile can help, letting you create print projects that can be used again and again, even when the content changes. These print projects are linked to the source documents filed in different network locations so that only the latest file version is ever retrieved and used. As a result, several authors working on the same print project can maintain their contents independently, and only up-to-date documents are printed – without any manual intervention whatsoever.
Why improving workflow is the best way for print providers to focus attention and money – and drive better business returns
In today’s increasingly complex printing environment, automated workflow management is becoming critical to simplify processes, reduce cost and speed up interaction and delivery times.
That’s why you need workflow management software:
- To ensure full use of all equipment to maintain production efficiency and competitiveness.
- To automate your job handling processes and prepress work to free your staff from repetitive tasks.
- To optimise your job submission procedures to avoid unnecessary telephone enquiries from customers.
Discover what Workflow Automation can do for you
Workflow management software is perfect for helping you gain a competitive edge by automating tasks that can take up too much time and resources. The systems also let you reduce labour costs and address budget constraints and the need to do more with less, optimize your productivity and eliminate the need to hire temps to perform manual tasks.
It gives you the flexibility you need, allowing you to expand your capabilities as time passes, ensure your confidential document are always safe with automated redaction, file conversion to password-protected PDFs, automatic application of copy protection features and more, as well as speed data entry – including forms processing with pattern-matching technology – and direct connectors to document management systems and other cloud storage providers. Workflow automation helps you stay focused, eliminate inefficiencies, minimize costs, reduce errors, become more efficient and gain greater insight throughout your workplace environment.
Consider these automated workflow benefits for your business:
Get ready for a new business opportunity
DIGITAL1234 presents you with four simple steps to more business. Konica Minolta’s business development program has been designed to enable print providers to thrive in their businesses. It takes an opportunity-based approach, showing customers in four practical steps how to identify, assess, justify and implement new business opportunities. All you have to do is register once to obtain all this valuable information – free of any obligation or expense.
Enabling business through workflow automation
How you can profit from automated processes
Minimise manual touch points to boost productivity and profits and maximise your return on investment. Such a strategy naturally makes sound business sense, and the answer is workflow automation. Besides the obvious advantages of time savings, lower costs and reduced risk of errors, workflow automation also helps you to streamline production and provide customers with transparent, audited processes – an increasingly important criterion in today's business environment. Once you have introduced automated processes your customers will find it easier to do business with you, and their data will secure than ever. The net outcome is a boost to your competitiveness that will pay long-term dividends.
How your customers benefit from workflow automation:
- More straightforward and secure print jobs
- Less distance between customer and Print Service Provider
- Shorter deadlines possible
How you profit from workflow automation:
- Increased competitiveness
- Greater productivity
- More streamlined production process
- Transparent, audited processes
- Time savings
- Risk of errors reduced
- Costs cut
- Manual touchpoints minimised
- Return on investment maximised
Don't miss this chance to boost your profitability, workflow efficiency, process transparency and customer friendliness!
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Success story
FAB Pro.Work
“This allowed our employees to spend less time on technology-related issues, and more time with customers...”
FAB Pro.Work is a commercial printer with a higher purpose. Operating as a separate business unit within FAB (over 650 people), FAB Pro.Work is a print service provider which, in addition to 11 staff members, employs 26 people who are physically challenged or have learning difficulties. FAB Pro.Work offers these people a work opportunity in a professional environment, and tries to pave the way for them to enter the open labour market. These people are mostly responsible for the order handling process and the various finishing aspects of print jobs. Under the motto “Print is our Business”, FAB Pro.Work focuses on providing digital print services, but also offers traditional offset products through a partner organisation.
The challenge
In 2009 FAB Pro.Work was facing financial difficulty due to its high running costs and declining revenues. According to Mrs Sandra Raninger, Operations Manager at FAB Pro.Work, it was necessary to restructure the organisation and to build a much more cost-efficient print production process.
The solution
During this process, FAB Pro.Work spoke to Konica Minolta and realised there were real opportunities to reduce costs and improve efficiency in the production process. Amongst other hardware and software solutions that were considered, they realised they could standardise and automate the order acceptance and job preparation process, which had involved many manual touch points. Under the new system, job tickets could be generated up-front with AccurioPro Flux, creating a far more streamlined production workflow.
This allowed the operators to pay more attention to other parts of the production process and significantly reducing the production turn-around time. The management of FAB recognised that the new solutions would deliver the necessary cost reductions and productivity improvements, and approved the plan, leading to full implementation in 2011.
The result
More than a year later, it became clear that the new solutions had indeed made it possible for FAB Pro.Work to become successful again. The total cost of the print production process was reduced by almost 50%. There was also a significant reduction in the amount of time needed to accept and prepare print jobs, which allowed employees to spend less time on technology-related issues and more time with customers, improving customer service.
Future outlook
With the new and improved workflow process in place, FAB Pro.Work is now looking to expand its business. One of the first areas of expansion the company initiated was to discuss with BBRZ holding, which FAB is part of, the possibility of having bigger print jobs at the various sister companies routed to FAB Pro.Work.
In essence, the company is seeking to act as a central reprographic department for its sister companies within FAB, further increasing print volumes. “The future is bright,” explains Sandra Raninger. “With the standardisation in our workflow processes now in place, we have room to expand. And if we had added a web-based print job submission tool for our sister companies, we would not just have optimised our internal workflow, but also made it easier to have customer submit jobs to us!”
Does the experience of FAB PRO.WORK sound like something you might like to repeat at your company?
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The Accurio range of digital systems is designed to meet the growing needs of new generation digital challenges. Meticulously engineered for print providers and professionals, these systems offer outstanding colour reproduction and registration stability as well as being able to create digitalised files from hard copies, efficiently and reliably.
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