By machine and by day
The floor’s plan in the shape the floor thinks in.
Production scheduling · for the print room
The press floor, planned by machine and by day
Every job on a board by machine and by day, with one traffic light each — not started, on press, done. Big-button station screens at each press, time on press booked and burned down, and job bags scanned straight onto the plan.
The problem
The whiteboard and the walk round
Most press floors are planned on a whiteboard and checked by walking round. Job bags are typed in by hand, and the one that was misread is found when the customer rings.
How it works
Production scheduling, step by step
01
Bags in
Scanned job bags read onto the plan, a bag to a page, every field shown back before it lands.
02
Plan
Each job placed on a machine and a day.
03
Run
Big-button station screens at each press: start, finish and time on press.
04
See it
Red, amber and green on every job — not started, on press, done — on the board and on Today.
What it does
Production scheduling: what it does
One traffic light per job
Not started, on press, done — the same lamp on the board, at the station and on Today.
Station screens
Big-button screens at each press for starting and finishing work.
Time on press
Time booked to a job and burned down as it runs.
Job bags read, never guessed
A field the scan cannot read is left blank and marked for a person, never guessed — and a job number is never invented.
Materials counted
Paper and board booked in off the delivery note, taken to a press and counted.
Questions
Production scheduling: what people ask
Do we have to type job bags in?
No. Scanned job bags are read onto the plan, a bag to a page, with every field shown back before it lands and anything unreadable left blank for a person to fill.
What do the colours mean?
Red is not started, amber is on press and green is done — the same on the board, at the station screens and on the Today page.
Can operators use it at the press?
Yes. Each press can have a station screen with big buttons for starting and finishing jobs and booking time on press.
Does it keep track of paper and board?
Yes. Materials are booked in off the delivery note, taken to a press and counted.
Works with
Licensed on its own, better together
Every module shares one estate and one sign-in, so adding the next is a decision, not a migration.
Print estimating
Size and quantity in, a priced press plan out, and a job bag raised onto the schedule.
Imposition and nesting
A print-ready PDF in; the sheet, the Kongsberg cutter file and the plan out.
Print costing and quotes
Rate cards per client, a brief priced into a quote, margins approved before the job runs.
Reporting and audit
The order book read back, an audit log of every change and imports with a dry run.
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