1. Preface
In the recent period, many media and exhibitions often disclose the situation of JDF, which has become a hot topic.
Here I would like to review its origin and future trend, for the reference of the industry. Since the publication of CIP4 in 2000, it has been developed by four companies including Adobe System in the United States, Agfa in Belgium, MAN Roland in Germany, and Heidelberg in collaboration as a standard format for expressing the overall operational information of printing projects. . It includes data sharing between projects for data management, planning, and business support. Using XML, it can also correspond to the standards such as PDF or PJTF of American Adobe System.
After exhibiting a comprehensive introduction to JDF from the order to the engineering management system at the Drupa exhibition four years ago, it did indeed impact the printing industry beyond DTP, making the printing industry excited. Let's define its meaning as the format of the job data.
The introduction of JDF did bring vitality and vitality to the printing industry, but unfortunately JDF has not been widely used. But in order to survive and win in the course of the future, it is necessary to change the old format, update the concept and change the production structure.
For this reason, here is a further description of the essence of JDF, in order to facilitate the understanding of the production operations.
2. Necessity of business intelligence
The printing industry has been recognized as an intelligence industry, but its internal intelligence system has not yet reached the optimal level. It is better to say that it lags behind other industries. The two key words that can often be heard are "short delivery time" and "price competition." It may be considered from the perspective of business intelligence.
The so-called short delivery time refers to the very short time from receipt to delivery, often failing to comply with the agreement at the time of receipt. The so-called production refers to the manufacturing and planning in advance. If you leave the daily process and the original production plan cannot be guaranteed, then the short delivery time becomes a very difficult problem for printing companies. All in all, it should be noted that the acceptance contract agreed with the customer can be carried out accurately, and whether the best production plan can be formulated in the shortest time.
As for price competition, there are also problems of the same nature. In response to the content of the order, when the standard business is determined, the same operations can be used for short delivery times, small batches of work, and a large number of high-quality products. All these can be solved by relying on their own efforts to solve the problems that can be improved immediately. Unreasonably reducing the wages is equivalent to putting a noose on yourself, it is best to give up. It should be thought that if an order is accepted in accordance with unguaranteed production costs, you will encounter a situation of ups and downs, and you have to pull out of this quagmire as soon as possible. It cannot be said that the printing industry is incompetent in operation. What it is to say is to get rid of the confusion of market competition as early as possible. Each enterprise should think carefully to the extent of adoption based on the following information.
From a financial point of view:
â— Accumulated amount of order at that time
â— Scheduled payment for the month, cash balance
â— Inventory of equipment and products
â— Credit balance
From a production point of view:
â— Operation status of each operator
â— Starting status of printing press
â— Progress status of ordered products
From the customer's point of view:
â— The individual profit and loss situation of the order
â— Product inventory status
â— Progress against the annual budget
â— Delivery period and abnormal conditions
The above is just a part of general business intelligence. If you want to know the status of the information immediately, you can say that it is an excellent business intelligence system. Of course, all kinds of detailed information also include the information held by the department manager, so that it can become the material for the workshop and the operator to judge things on the same scale.
The so-called business intelligence does not mean that you do not understand before accepting the report, but that you get the content you want to know by your actions when you want to know. The thinking and system of the operator should be transformed in time. After accepting an order, business adjustments with customers and partner companies should not take too much time in this regard, but should be more strategic to focus on the effects that can create continuous benefits. When all the information is gathered and how to prepare it, this is the task the operator should undertake.
3. The essence of JDF
As mentioned above, information must be required for management, but it takes a lot of time and labor (= cost) to obtain information. Obtaining expired information is meaningless. In fact, there are systems for obtaining such business intelligence, but to obtain information unique to printing companies involving many projects, huge investments and closed systems are a prerequisite. So what are the benefits of relying on JDF? That is, the information format from business to post-press engineering has been unified. And its format is expressed by XML, which can be adapted to open systems. Depending on the situation, it may be a very personal format for printing companies that are using XML.
In short, it makes people feel that JDF has made the information of the whole project a unified reality. JDF is the format of a unified printing method in the printing industry. It is neither a product for sale nor what is being sold. Once the essence of it is wrong, it will fall back to the era of the equipment industry. Even if the machine corresponding to JDF has been gathered, do not rely on the machine to obtain business information and make business judgments at will. Because it is not something that directly generates profits, nor is it something that prevents mistakes. It is only necessary to transform the information required for operation into effective content and get it in time, which depends entirely on the ability of the operator. To differentiate from competing companies, or to outperform other industries, JDF is essential as a basic tool.
4. From local best to overall best
The application of JDF can completely change the printing company's production engineering. As for printing companies, in order to improve efficiency, internalize and guarantee profits, various investment in machinery and equipment has been made in the past. Taking plate-making equipment as an example, in the 1980s, the layout color separation machine and recording media appeared on the market despite the current situation. It is completely different. Due to the digital effect of various synthesis processes, the printing press has been improved, equipped with the function of reducing manual work, etc., which promotes speed and stability, and facilitates the adoption of work standardization.
Such as the above, printing companies have actively invested in machines for years to improve production efficiency, which is certainly not wrong. In fact, it was only optimized in various projects. However, from the recent situation that customers demanded a reduction in wages and a corresponding increase in speed in response to market demands, it can be seen that the original optimization effect of investment in various projects has gradually shown a tendency to fade. First of all, the printed matter basically becomes the final product through several projects, so the final production volume constitutes the total processing volume. In order to increase the total throughput, it is necessary to maintain a balanced speed throughout the project. At present, when most cases are imbalanced, the cooperative company shall assist in adjustment. However, in order to ensure stable quality and recover fixed fees, it should also face the direction of promoting internalization.
As long as you master the maximum processing capacity and productivity bottlenecks in the company, you will determine the current projects that do not need to invest lightly in equipment investment, and the projects that need to be prioritized for equipment investment. The operator needs to obtain information on this business judgment. . Emphasis on internalization, sometimes encountered difficult situations. As an effective application of JDF, the overall optimization with external partners and material purchasers enters the field of vision. This is precisely JDF, which is XML, or SCM and EDI. Just like customers, as long as they are in the best circle, they will become a completely different business model. JDF is the best mode to jump out of the company's internal framework.
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