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Monarch
Globally Optimized Print MIS
Advanced Professional Print Software
EFI Monarch Delivers a Flexible,
Powerful, Intelligent and
Automated Print Production
and Management Solution
Sustainable Process Improvement, Control and Value
New Process, Revenue and Profit Potential
Monarch from EFI combines the capabilities of EFI Prograph ,
a powerful workflow and planning solution for high volume and
publication printing, with Hagen™ OA’s Print MIS toolset, to
deliver a globally optimized workflow and management solution
that enables your team to respond faster and more efficiently
while managing more jobs and more complex requests.
Your competitive edge and profitability depend on how efficiently
you leverage assets and create new revenue opportunities while
driving down costs. Monarch, an end-to-end solution, helps your
business thrive in today’s market by maximizing your profit potential
with every job. Its integrated toolset also provides an optimize
solution that delivers excellent ROI by addressing every aspect of
management and workflow control.
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Dynamic Intelligence
Version Management
No need to maintain template libraries. Monarch builds templates
on demand – automatically adjusting specifications based on the
individual job with the ability to apply a master template to multiple
components and sizes. When the press is selected, the system
automatically makes adjustments for the plate surface size, default
marks and any imposition variables. The process continues with
the automated development of a distribution and shipping plan.
Monarch understands the parent/child relationship when
managing versions. If a production run requires multiple black
plate changes to accommodate distribution requirements, it
automatically calculates and manages the related activities and
materials, helping control costs by reducing waste and improving
workflow. Streamlining version control significantly impacts your
ability to deliver on-time and on-target for cost and profitability.
Monarch provides your workflow system with a detailed layout
with the content page positions and all process marks – including
folding, color bars, punch, and side guides – necessary for
automated plate creation. This process creates a comprehensive
manufacturing instruction set for all production process steps,
including reconciled distribution planning and detailed instructions
for page-level version assignments. Additionally, Monarch provides
a high level of real-world flexibility. Even the pre-press operator, for
example, can make last-minute adjustments when necessary.
Just in Time Plating
The pressroom floor is an ever-changing sequence of rush jobs.
You need to allow schedules to shift and jobs to change at any stage
of the process, to take advantage of open capacity and allow for
quick responses to customer change requests. Global optimization
is your best chance to improve your existing jobs’ profitability.
Monarch’s object-oriented parts-based specification process enables
the creation of complex jobs through a simple drag and drop approach.
Extraordinary behind-the-scene intelligence automatically generates
complex planning instructions with minimal effort.
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Monarch prepares impositioned press runs for RIPing to CtP
devices through prepress workflow systems such as Prinergy
and Apogee. The Monarch Planner begins the process by
receiving content links and images from, for example, Kodak’s
Prinergy and InSite page submission systems. The content is
automatically linked to pages in the Planner, where the user
views spreads and imposed views directly on-screen. With
Monarch, presses change, layouts respond and content flows
automatically into its new positions. Likewise, paper sizes
change, causing color guides and plate marks to shift and scale
automatically – without user intervention.
Monarch streamlines the planning process. No other solution can
provide this level of intelligence and flexibility – allowing your people
to manage customer changes quickly, efficiently and profitably.
Advanced Professional Print Software
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Quantity Management
with Inverted Count Accuracy
Most planning systems utilize a flat percentage or rely on the operator to guestimate production counts
to allow for materials spoiled during the printing and subsequent finishing processes. These guestimates
result in excessive overruns or underruns that seriously impact costs and profitability.
Monarch utilizes complex algorithms to automate and improve accuracy. As a result, production
schedules and material allocations are more accurate, and when the target moves due to a customer
change, Monarch automatically rebuilds the plan with the new activities, counts, and costs – creating a
comprehensive manufacturing instruction set for all steps of the production process.
Job Workflow and Version Management
Monarch provides interdependent process planning capabilities
for prepress, plating, press, post press, binding, post binding and
distribution planning, including complex versioning capabilities
that complement its comprehensive approach to production
planning to provide a uniquely powerful solution.
These capabilities are designed to enhance workflow
requirements related to panel, calendar, catalog, publication
and high volume jobs. In a manual or “disconnected” process,
skilled planners must review job detail and build production plans.
These plans vary from planner to planner, introducing a high level
of process instability. Monarch streamlines and standardizes
planning efforts, eliminating this instability while improving
overall production planning and performance.
True Computer Integrated Manufacturing
Scope of Impact
Monarch provides seamless integration between its powerful
management, planning, scheduling and direct machine interface
(DMI) tools with external JDF enabled processes and tools. No
other solution offers this level of flexibility and process potential.
It’s absolutely critical that your company maximizes the potential
of every job. Monarch streamlines the planning, production and
administrative processes, giving your business a competitive
edge to thrive in today’s market.
Monarch’s integrated tools address every aspect of your business:
Collect, Organize Report and Evaluate
• Internet-based client desktops.
Monarch helps your business operate more effectively by
collecting, organizing and reporting valuable information with a
flexible data structure and an intelligence level unavailable in other
solutions. Tools like our intelligent estimating provide a return on
every opportunity, while organizing and presenting the big picture
information that you need to improve processes and profitability.
• Intelligent estimating and quoting.
• Visual, complex planning without templates.
• Version management for complex jobs.
• Quantity management.
• Dynamic rules-based scheduling.
• Order entry/job tracking desktop.
• Electronic and printed production forms.
Global Experience and Global Scope
• Automated inventory allocations.
With nearly 10,000 Print MIS installations worldwide, no other
partner delivers the level of Print MIS experience and flexibility
offered by EFI™. Our implementation, training, consulting and
support staffs offer the experience, expertise and focus required
for sustained process and profit improvement.
• Real-time data collection.
• CIM: JDF and Direct Machine Interfaces (DMI).
• Inventory management.
• Roll stock management.
• Invoicing and receivables.
• Payables, GL and financials.
• Sales and process analysis.
• Visual business analysis.
• Finished goods, fulfillment and mailing management.
• Internet-based catalogs.
• Multi-process, multi-language, multi-company,
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multi-division, multi-currency.
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Dynamic Scheduling
Monarch leverages the power and intelligence of PrintFlow to build a logical, efficient plan based on realtime production and delivery priorities. PrintFlow can sequence jobs based on priorities and production
characteristics. Sheet size, paper type/weight and ink are a few job sequence characteristics that, when
factored into the production schedule, reduce make ready time, waste and overall production time.
PrintFlow performs this sequencing while managing critical workflow and delivery requirements. The
end result is the electronic delivery of a real-time run list – that represents the most up-to-date and cost
effective schedule – to each work center.
PrintFlow includes a powerful, unlimited “what-if” scenario
generator. This dynamic tool can quickly juggle what could be
thousands of job tags, producing a new scheduling scenario
based on new job requirements, new resource information, and
the current status of every production operation based on information
collected though our real-time data collection systems. This
performance level is impossible to duplicate with a standalone
scheduling solution.
Computer Integrated Manufacturing for Print
Production and Finished Goods Inventory Management
Unlike other solutions, Monarch delivers on the full potential
of CIM technologies today by maximizing JDF and DMI-based
technology. This digitally-enhanced workflow begins on your client’s
desktop with the delivery of specifications and production files to
your EFI Monarch planning module. JDF-compatible instructions
are developed and delivered seamlessly to production and finishing
processes. Whether you’re using newer JDF-enabled production
equipment or older non-compliant equipment, EFI Auto-Count® DMI
provides your business with a direct link between management
and production by providing real-time monitoring and control
software for your presses and finishing equipment. For high-speed
web presses, Auto-Count employs patented “weight the waste”
technology, providing real-time monitoring for production control and
accurate “good” counts. Many clients report a two to three percent
reduction in overall paper consumption with the implementation of
Auto-Count technology.
Monarch’s tools provide effective inventory management. From
the generation of purchase orders to real-time roll-stock inventory
management to a complete finished goods and fulfillment
inventory management process, Monarch effectively manages
and controls your most expensive outside costs.
Monarch’s inventory impact begins with the intelligence of our
planning module and continues with our DMI-based Auto-Count
Paper Monitor, which monitors the consumption and yield of
every roll. Our finished goods and fulfillment tools maximize
your process and profit potential with an efficient and flexible
management process, including on-line client desktops options
for ordering, status and inventory management.
Monarch includes an integration option with Manhattan
Associates Integrated Logistics System (ILS) for high-end
fulfillment operations.
PrintFlow eliminates costly bottlenecks, identifies weak links, reduces
waste and creates new capacity through logical job sequencing.
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For more information on EFI Monarch
solution, contact EFI at 800 875-7117
or visit www.efi.com.
Print to Win with EFI
EFI (www.efi.com) is the world leader in digital print servers and
controllers, superwide format printers and inks, industrial inkjet
printing systems, Print MIS, Web-to-print and proofing solutions.
EFI is dedicated to giving customers a competitive edge with
award-winning, scalable solutions from creation to print that
maximize productivity and increase profits.
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