CIP4 Announces 2010 CIPPI Award Winners for JDF Implementation
About JDF
The Job Definition Format (JDF) is the industry specification designed to facilitate process automation and the integration of different applications and systems in and around the graphic arts industry. JDF also enables the integration of business management and job planning applications into the production workflow. JDF is based on the W3C’s Extensible Markup Language (XML), ensuring maximum interoperability between different platforms and ready interaction with Internet systems. More information is available at http://www.cip4.org/.
About the CIPPI Award Program
The CIPPI award is named after the late Jürgen Schönhut of the Fraunhofer Institute in Darmstadt Germany. Mr. Schönhut was a founding member of CIP4 whose contribution was instrumental in creating both CIP4, and its predecessor, the CIP3 Consortium. (For more information on Jürgen Schönhut: http://www.cip4.org/cippi/juergen_schoenhut.html).
Summaries of 2010 CIPPI Award-winning Case Studies
Vögeli AG Druckzentrum, Langnau, Switzerland
Family-owned fourth generation printer
• Revenue of 9.5 million Swiss Francs
• 50 employees
• 40% of customers are Swiss advertising agencies, the rest are customers from the pharmaceutical, medical, watch, jewelry and food industries
• Products include brochures, annual reports, postcards, catalogs and invitations.
Objectives of Implementation
• Reduce error risk related to incorrect or missing information
• Time savings for investigating, re-checking and/or re-submitting already-provided data
• Improve efficiency over the entire workflow
• Automation of processes to offer best prices to customers at secured quality standards
• Improve customer service and responsiveness
• Enhance transparency and flexibility in our administration (MIS)
Implementation
• Implemented bi-directional JDF/JMF workflow
• Automated JDF/JMF workflow that includes HIFLEX (MIS), Kodak (Prinergy and InSite), as well as Heidelberg (Pressroom Manager)
Results
• Productivity has more than doubled since 2004 due to new presses and automation
• Workflow would have required three additional employees without JDF
• Eliminated production meetings (Savings of SFr. 13,500 per year)
• Elimination of SFr. 94,500 per year production waste of with JDF/PPF technology used today
• The net present value (NPV) of our project is SFr. 2,517,247
• Based on a five-year period, Return on Investment is 657.3%
• Internal Rate of Return (IRR) is 252.0%
