Founded in 1865 and based in Deer Park, NY, DWS Printing & Packaging employs 50 people, and focuses primarily on food and beverage packaging, with a strong presence in the craft beer market. Its goal is to deliver the best possible products and service for its customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With its offset, flexo, and digital+flexo hybrid presses, DWS can provide any type of label a package requires, including tactile treatments, up to 10 colors with full UV technology, and specialty stocks. A new facility in Austin, TX led to a second hybrid press. The company also prints shrink sleeves, complemented by in-house application onto cans. They are in the process of using their newly installed IC3D software, pending training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe were happy with our pretty functional workflow system, but it could not tie properly into our FileMaker MIS system. After struggling for months, we decided to start to look at options,<\/em>\u201d says John Gulino, COO, DWS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Because DWS prints offset, flexo, and digital \u2014 and gang-run printing \u2014 it built a FileMaker system that was geared specifically for their business. The only limitation was integrating it into its existing automated workflow engine. All the information typed into its MIS system had to be manually re-entered into its automation system. While soft proofing was already functional, the promise of tying to the MIS interested DWS most. It was still manually sending out PDFs for customer approval. Clients were approving projects via email, which were manually triggered into the workflow to continue the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n DWS was shown the Hybrid CLOUDFLOW automated workflow. The possibilities were immediately obvious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNow, when we receive a new job, CSRs enter data to the MIS, and it\u2019s imported into the production system. The label information \u2014 the size, press, colors, dye number, substrate, coatings, shipping, etc. \u2014 can trigger actions,\u201d notes Gulino. \u201cThe workflow drives the job. The automated process changes the preflighting parameters; what\u2019s acceptable, what passes, and what fails. It minimizes the number of touch points.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n It even works remotely. All the CSR, artwork, and platemaking for the Austin facility is done at headquarters. When Austin conducts press approvals or looks at scheduling, they are tied into the same corporate DWS workflow and MIS. \u201cIt was remarkably simple. The box arrived with the software. I plugged it into our network, Hybrid logged in, tweaked it, and it was up and running,<\/em>\u201d says Gulino. The Austin facility could be down the hall or across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe tried to determine how to organize our sales team\u2019s estimates. Hybrid Software said, \u2018Let us think about it.\u2019 Within a couple days, they built a Web form that looked exactly like our existing estimating software,<\/em>\u201d says Gulino. \u201cWithin a week, it was tested and functional. Sales reps can log in and see the status of their estimates. They can forward them to CSRs who can take the estimates and tie them into sales orders and invoices.<\/em>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWithin a few months of using our new workflow, I am getting excellent buy-in from the entire company. Print buyers also appreciate the functionality, the annotation, and the online proofing. It\u2019s more seamless \u2014 easier for them, and faster for us. It\u2019s certainly worth looking at connecting your ERP with your production system. It did what Hybrid Software said it would do,<\/em>\u201d says Gulino.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Article courtesy of<\/p>\n\n\n\n While print production software is well established and fully functional, what isn\u2019t is the interconnectivity between production and MIS systems. DWS Printing & Packaging is a good example of how a reassessment can be helpful. 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