Simply Press News
is a software module developed to support newspaper printing companies with these functionalities:

	Reel Warehouse Management
	Waste and down-time evaluation
	Support in web presses management and monitoring
	Recording of plant shutdowns and respective causes and times
	Production balance

This module can work with the press intelligence module: this enables the execution of a detailed analysis of the production process in terms of effectiveness and efficiency.
Past experiences show that the module fits perfectly in the client’s application landscape, with only a short period of training to the employees.
The deployment of this module accelerates times for managing production allowing to reduce the number of employees that used to do this work manually and spending more time.
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Simply Press
is an innovative software module created and designed by to support graphic companies (which produces books, magazines, periodicals, catalogues, etc.) in managing and optimising all production phases, simplifying repetitive operations, monitoring key production parameters and interacting with company ERP and general ledger system.
The modular structure of this product makes it not only easily fitting to all clients’ requirements but also enables an incremental deployment of new customised functions, according to client’s specific expectations.
Simply Press is developed using cutting edge hardware and software technologies, is constantly updated with new functionalities and is made up of these modules:
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Paper Manager
supports operators in managing paper warehouse, tracking history of each single reel (origin, weight, quality, defects, etc.) from the moment it enters the plant to the moment it is used in the printing process.
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Job Builder
Defines technical characteristics of each printing job and each activity within it (covers’ and shelf mark printing, binding, delivery, etc.) automatically calculating needs of paper and raw material so that the procurement office is constantly informed about production needs and material usage.
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Job Scheduler
Supports the work load scheduling of each unit (pre-press, press, binding shop, etc.) taking into account company timesheet, equipment set-up times, plant shutdown times and sequence bonds between activities so that the user can distribute workloads in an homogenous manner along time scale. Scheduling results are shown in an interactive Gantt diagram: this facilitates the identification of possible critical points in the production plan.
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Job Sequencer
Analyses characteristics of each planned job, grouping them accordingly: this helps the scheduling responsible optimising workloads of each production shop.
This module used with Job Scheduler enables an easy and fast production scheduling.

Job Tracker
Traces production progress in real time for each production shop registering timing, material usage, plant shutdown causes, etc. Using E Viewer module it is possible to access and publish these data on the Internet/intranet web site.
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E Viewer
This module enables - using whatever client remotely connected to company network – to display real time status of all machineries under Job Tracker monitoring, displaying operative status (static/dynamic run-up, production, job-end), speed, the number of good and discard copies produced, production progress rate and estimated finish time. Production unit responsible have constantly under control their production.

Press Intelligence
Analyses the production process highlightening potential weaknesses and offers statistical tools to perform in depth analysis.
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Maint Manager
Support maintenance activities, managing ordinary and extraordinary maintenance and intervention requests keyed-in by the machine operators.
The integration with Job Tracker module improves the efficiency of maintenance activities enabling real time data acquisition from the plant in terms of work hours of each machinery.
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Editor's Choice
Is the first end-to-end application for managing editor’s supply chain (both daily and periodical papers). It is the result of an in depth analysis of the demand of some of the biggest newspaper editors relating to real-time control of the entire supply chain (marketing, pre-press, diffusion, printing and delivery of products) and of the paper warehouse consistency among all plants.
Thanks to the “Smart Client” technology on which it is based, Editor's Choice combines advantages of web applications (no deploy needed on single PCs) and client-server architecture (rich and functional user interface, high response speed).
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Distribution Manager
This module supports the management of editorial products distribution. It follow all the activities needed to define:

1. number of copies printed and sold (circulation) of each edition

2. assignment of the number of copies to be printed for each printing plant

3. the distribution list of products towards distributors

The module automatically gets returned copies data from INFORETE (the Italy-wide EDI specialised for the management of these information), analyses distribution results and, comparing them with data of previous periods, drafts possible distribution lists that operators can tune according to their professional experience.

Netronic components
We based our Job Scheduler module on the Gantt diagram components of a German company: Netronic. High performance graphic and good functional coverage of this product led us become exclusive retailers of these modules for the Italian market.
There are different components you can choose among to display high quality interactive diagrams representing activities planned time and resource usage along timescale.
All modules are compatibles with VB, C, C#, Delphi, Java as well as 4th generation (Omnis) applications and can interact in different architectural layouts (client-server, smart-client, WEB, ASP). Moreover, they are natively integrated with SAP, Navision and Axapta (Microsoft Dynamics ERP products).

Visit www.netronic.com for further details: in the download area you can download 30-days trial and some example programs written in different programming languages so that you can verify on yourself how easy it is to integrate these modules in your applications and which is their potential.

Available modules:
Varchart XNet: realise and display interactive PERT diagrams;
Varchart XGantt: to realise and display interactive Gantt diagrams and resource workload histograms:
Varchart JGantt: to realise and display interactive diagrams in Java environment;
Resource Scheduling: to support resource workload analysis and optimisation considering constraints, relation between different phases and material availability.

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