The essence and trend of JDF (2)
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Fifth, As a printing company should do something before adopting JDF
What benefits does JDF bring to the business? With JDF, it doesn't mean that the rest is not needed. In fact, before you can adopt JDF initially, you must do the following work.
1. Re-discussion of business indicators
From where to make profits, all accounting starts from the so-called unplanned income and expenditure. It is necessary to master the profit per order and the profit of each customer. In addition, in order to maintain the promotion factors of business and production, it is necessary to provide Valuation indicator.
2. Setting of standard work
Because the printing business is complicated, it is considered difficult to set standard work, but it is not. As long as the operation process is analyzed, the model will be clear, it will be regarded as a standard operation, and it will be linked to valuation and production management, and automatic scheduling will become possible. At the same time, according to the standard working hours = cost, it can collect the information that meets the previous item. For the actual operation of these, relying on analogous means, the transaction processing may be complicated, and it is necessary to summarize the analysis and thinking. The daily report may be automatically collected by JDF depending on the project. In the future, it is possible to rely on the application level of DTP to automatically collect the job history.
3. Standard price
Here we are positioned as the transaction price within the company. The standard price constitutes an important factor for the basis of the valuation indicator and the basis for the standard operation. The main factor determining the price is neither the factor nor the market nor the estimated price. It is necessary to consider the working hours based on the fixed expenses of the company, and it is necessary to determine competitive prices based on skilled techniques and cost reduction. There are still many other things that must be prepared. Regardless of whether JDF is used or not, the above foundations should be built within the company.
Six. Looking forward to JDF
When will the things mentioned above be realized, this may be something that everyone cares about. In the current situation, JDF The specifications of the entity are also evolving, and the manufacturers who assemble it into the machine are also seriously developing. The suspense often left in this situation is the concept of the user, the printing company. In the process of technological supremacy, in order to take advantage of the nature of this JDF reform, the pain requires users to actively ask for advice and opinions.
JDF is a unified format in the world and has been defined by fairly detailed instructions. Even so, there are no unique things. Although it can meet local requirements, if it is not uniform within at least one country, this is equivalent to adopting JDF for users who maintain a wide range of manufacturers' machines Closed system.
Because this is very important, let's talk about it in detail. It has been said that JDF is a uniform format for printing specifications, but how to pass the specification information from the business and customers, and then how to pass to the prepress engineering and printing, postpress engineering, in fact, JDF itself does not exist about its workflow The rules of actual operation. In other words, the same format is formulated. Even though there is a common language, then who is going to transfer its information to suitability, it will never be solved by the operator by manual operation. It is conceivable to use JDF-related. XML data.
For example, if the business enters the order input by the MIS, it is calculated that JDF has been input for the initial information. After that, where should this XML data go? Where is it kept? Can you leave it alone?
The correct answer is that you can ignore it and it should be. Also due to the one-to-one relationship, and the JDF operation with a lot of operational content (recording instructions for JDF files, reading instructions, etc.), in the near future, it is hoped that no one needs to be careful, so that the minimum is Inputs and instructions rely on the system to work, and the content that is needed when needed, automatically shares intelligence where necessary.
For this reason, it is not a MIS and a manufacturing machine. During this period, you need to add another layer, that is, the JDF database, which is called JDF Server. This JDF Server does not need to follow everyone, it dispatches intelligence from the front, back, left, and right systems to the front, back, left, and right, and fully grasps its resume. At the same time, the situation is uploaded to the network within the company one by one. According to the ordering information, when equipment with insufficient inventory is found, automatic scheduling can be performed.
Once the customer's inventory status is lower than a certain amount, they will greet the customer. If additional production is made, the customer will enter the ordering information and immediately develop the best engineering arrangement. In the near future, it will undoubtedly be born like JDF.
The solution of Server-like functions. Prior to this, the work to be prepared by the printing company will pile up.
Seventh, Conclusion
As I mentioned earlier, I don't think all printing companies must adopt JDF. JDF has not been used so far, and there are many excellent companies that rely on their own operations. However, it is worth emphasizing that JDF is not only internal to the company, but also open to the outside world, cooperative companies and customers. The most promising foundation is worthy of concern.
JDF should be the best choice in terms of the concept of an equipment industry that introduces equipment to improve efficiency and transform it into the best workflow industry.