1. HP SmartStream Production Center Version 1.6 NPI
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HP SmartStream Production Center Version 1.6 NPI
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2. HP SmartStream Production Center
Few facts about Production Center:
30 Installations of Production Center WW
Sales grew over 200% in deals in EMEA
Customers using Production Center have grown their job volumes 18% YOY, proving that Production Center facilitates CUSTOMER GROWTH
Production Center was an E2E press-sale enabler at new accounts for both Indigo and IHPS
Production Center played a huge role in winning business away from competition (XEROX)
Customers managing between jobs/day on both conventional and digital presses through PC

3. HP SmartStream Production Center Key Features
Flexible, Versatile Dashboards
Customize to meet your needs
Create multiple dashboards, to be used by multiple users across production floor monitors or on tablets
Predict workload and prioritize accordingly
Estimation module to understand workload at each work center and manage shifts accordingly
Identify bottle necks that impede production
Shop Floor Tracking
Plan every step from pre-press to shipping
Use your existing tickets or let the system create one for you
Reduce tracking effort by using a barcode reader to drive all actions
Highlight jobs that need attention
Get immediate indication for late jobs or jobs in error
See a detailed job status, and see where assistance is needed
Consolidated view of all jobs
Get jobs from your MIS and from one or more W2P systems
Use out of the box integration to leading vendors
Easily integrate your homegrown solution using an SDK

4. Some HP SmartStream Production Center Users

5. What are our CUSTOMERS saying?
Wonderful SUPPORT
Growing Volumes
REDUCE costs
Moving jobs to INDIGO
Automation
Is Key
Reliable
Production Center brings TRUE savings “
PC has helped us prioritize our daily workflow and forecast our labor needs. We’re able to produce products at lower costs because of money we are saving in production every day. “
We fine-tuned some settings and achieved a 11% increase in productivity. Currently we are at over 13 %. With a portal that generates €1.5 million a year, that’s a saving of around €130, 000 ” “ ”
The software has definitely fulfilled and exceeded our expectation… We have additional 5- 8 hours a week of production time. ” “
PC has helped us increase capacity (orders) without adding resources, and has significantly decreased touches from order to ship. We are moving more jobs to Indigo because of the  visibility and the automation  “
PC has made it easier to ensure that all jobs get out the door on time and on budget. …..This yields huge savings on shipment costs for us ” ”

6. Production Center 1.6 Highlights and New Features

7. New Production Plan Definition for Easier Deployment
Skip Task feature offers greater flexibility in setting up production paths, with significantly less plans to create
Include a wide range of optional production steps
Use with manual or automated submission
See the “skipped” tasks as crossed out to indicate that the work center has been by-passed in production
Current Production Plan Structure
New Production Plan Structure
Plan name:
Postcards
Plan name:
Postcards w/out lamination
Plan name:
Postcards with lamination

8. Build Smarter Plans with Conditional LogicIF
Then
Build Smarter Plans with Conditional Logic
With the Skip Task feature, PSPs can add logic to determine different production paths for a job
i.e. large quantities routed to offset printing, smaller quantities printed on an Indigo

9. Urgency-Based Job Management for ON-TIME Shipping!
Urgency-Based Job Management for ON-TIME Shipping
Alert on jobs that are “At Risk” of slipping the due date, allowing PSPs to take proactive measures and reallocate resources to ensure the job stays on track
Job- urgency determined based on due date and production time
New default queue for jobs “At Risk”
Dashboard Widget for jobs “At Risk”
Column for “Latest Start Time”

10. A Centralized Calculation Interface+ - x =
A Centralized Calculation Interface
A centralized location to manage and update all calculations and formulas, reducing setup time and eliminating duplicate efforts
Easily utilize these calculations in the work centers and plans

11. Enabling Re-work for Multi-Component Jobs
PSPs can now re-work all or part of a multi-component job enhancing on the rework function from version 1.5
The re-worked portion catches up at next merging point

12. Manage Digital Assets Replace or update assets in any pre-press step
Submit jobs to PC even if the final artwork is not ready
Replace or update assets in any pre-press step
No need to re-submit an order when the artwork must be changed
Avoid job duplications and versioning
Account for jobs in the pre-press stage when managing work load
In any prepress state, if customer supplies an updated asset or corrections have been made to the asset, the asset can be replaced in Production Center without new job submission

13. Enhancements to Manual Job Submission
CSRs have access and flexibility to edit the parameters of a job through the ‘Job Submit’ interface

14. Additional Enhancements
Date/Time Format Changes
24-hour Clock
European date format (DD-MM-YY)
Press and DFE Support
Support for the HP Indigo 7800 Digital Press
Job takes final destination from a DFE Ticket Template
If the job destination is set to default iPC then the press destination is selected from the DFE input ticket
If PC or upstream selects a final press destination that will override destination selected in the DFE ticket
Automatic Bin Management

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