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If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. Auto-Count ® Shop Floor Production Intelligence

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If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.

Auto-Count ®

Shop Floor Production Intelligence

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Shop floor production intelligence

Full plant visibilityWith Auto-Count, real-time data is available to production, scheduling and customer service for instant status updates and more efficient job management.

• Automate production data

• Reporting creates a clear production audit trail across the organisation

• Enhance the job communication process from production to customer service

Data-driven reports empower your teamAuto-Count’s patented measurement technology provides detailed, data-driven reports that provide the visibility managers need to:

• Proactively plan

• Improve production processes

• Decrease waste

• Reduce downtime

• Increase output

• Optimise estimating and production standards

• Optimise production process control and capacity utilisation

EFITM Auto-Count® is an award-winning patented shop floor production intelligence

platform that allows you to automatically collect accurate, up-to-the minute

production data including counts, press status, speed and other critical information

directly from your equipment in real-time.

Features of Auto-Count

• Easy-to-use and leverage solution: Auto-Count offers a familiar Windows®

interface that lets the user focus on improving business performance

• Compatibility and integration: Auto-Count works seamlessly with other EFI Print MIS solutions to maximise the value of equipment, improve productivity/throughput, reduce waste, provide a higher level of visibility and support more informed equipment and staff decisions

• Automated and consistent counting capability: Auto-Count’s sophisticated technology offers your staff more autonomy and control by producing the same count across all forms, eliminating overruns and underruns. Automated/detailed pallet tags also help your team to track jobs better as they move through your shop

• Extends your CIM/JDF integration initiative as Auto-Count provides integration for older, non-JDF enabled equipment

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“ All of our equipment is fine-tuned to be as productive as possible because of the accuracy of the data we collect with Auto-Count.”JUDI HANSEN, IT DIRECTOR, J.S. MCCARTHY

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The product lineAuto-Count 3000Auto-Count 3000 tracks signature counts with unparalleled accuracy utilising a patented “weigh-the-waste” process, incorporating press and scale sensors to provide the most accurate counts available.

• Software for multiple delivery machinery and scales that supports simultaneous production of multiple products

• Offers patented “weigh the waste” technology that weighs the waste and adjusts “good” counts on the fly

• Excellent solution for web presses and complex jobs with multiple signatures

Auto-Count 1000Auto-Count 1000 is a premier counting and control system for high-speed production equipment, delivering precision counting technology to every piece of equipment in the pressroom and bindery

• For sheetfed, bindery and finishing and some small webs including roll-to-roll webs

• Use sensors on the press or finishing equipment or sensors and buttons to trigger “good” counts

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“ Auto-Count helps us achieve an amazing component balance by weighing makeready and run waste — in real-time — and subtracting it from the total paper used. With Auto-Count, we know exactly where we are with waste and can continue to work to reduce it.” DAVID PILCHER, PRESIDENT, FREEPORT PRESS

Auto-Count non-DMIAuto-Count non-DMI is designed to bring Auto-Count capabilities to production equipment where using sensors is not possible including flatbed cutters, drills, punches, and manual operations.

• Collects information from manual operations or equipment without a cycle or measurement point

• Uses interface to Auto-Count 3000 and 1000

Auto-Count Paper MonitorAuto-Count Paper Monitor provides real-time visibility for all roll stands with a detailed log of consumption and yield. Paper Monitor uses the data gathered from sensors on your roll stands, the data provided by your management system via Auto-Count and the data entered by the roll tenders to analyse and report on yield and consumption.

• Tracks roll stock consumption, stripping and core waste in real-time

• Tracks “yield” of each roll to monitor and displays discrepancies between stated basis weight from mil and actual yield

• Updates inventory in real-time

• Eliminates the need for manual roll usage by tenders

Auto-Count Plant ManagerEFI Auto-Count’s Plant Manager consolidates information from all monitored devices onto user-defined desktops. Managers gain a real-time snapshot of current activity and a detailed history of operation.

• Closes the gap between production and management, providing real-time information to support critical business decisions

• Consolidates information from all monitored equipment including sheet and web offset, digital presses and finishing equipment

• Boosts crew and management performance with immediate feedback on production, including an analysis of performance against objectives and history

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Auto-Count Plant ViewThe Auto-Count Plant View module provides a consolidated, real-time view of the status of up to six devices on a single large-format monitor.

With Plant View, managers and production teams can see, at a glance, what equipment is active, what jobs are running, where they are in the run and how we are performing against expectations.

Auto-Count Performance DashboardThe Auto-Count Performance Dashboard provides distance viewing of job progress, giving your team real-time visibility into the status of the current run.

The dashboard uses graphical elements and colour indicators to keep your entire team engaged in the production process, providing key production metrics without requiring them to review information on the Auto-Count.

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Benefits of Auto-CountIncrease the accuracy of shop floor data

• Real-time connectivity offers up-to-the- minute information:

- Job status is instantly available throughout your company with Plant Manager

- Managers can utilise the extensive reporting to help make timely, cost effective decisions

- “Reason codes” help track downtime, identifying the need for equipment maintenance, process changes and/or staff training

• Ensures all activities are recorded

• Reduces overruns and underruns

Increase operators productivity:

• Automated data collection reduces manual intervention

• Auto-Count provides visual goals and benchmarks for self-improvement

• Deliver production instructions with greater accuracy

• Your team is always working with the most recent, most accurate instructions

• Auto-Count will drive your team to be more competitive

Improve overall plant visibility and control:

• With Auto-Count, you have the information you need to make profitable decisions

• Anyone with authorised access can review production activity and performance from any location, including remote smart devices

• With Auto-Count, you will discover issues that prevent your plant from running at maximum efficiency and have the information you need to correct those situations

Nothing herein should be construed as a warranty in addition to the express warranty statement provided with EFI products and services.

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IntegrationAuto-Count integrates with your EFI Management Information Solutions (MIS) to improve productivity by allowing operators to download run specifications right at your press console. This capability reduces manual data entry and increases production accuracy. Auto-Count updates your management system with production counts and activity – putting the information that you need on your desktop in real-time. Your managers, CSRs, schedulers and sales staff can check job status and respond to production events faster than ever before.

Auto-Count also integrates with your EFI PrintFlow® Dynamic Scheduling solution by delivering run lists to machine operators and updating PrintFlow in real-time as the jobs are produced and completed.

Auto-Count equipment integrationAuto-Count integrates with:

• MIS

- EFI MonarchTM Foundation

- EFI Monarch Planner

- EFI PaceTM

• EFI PrintFlow Dynamic Scheduling

• EFI Fiery® (via Plant Manager)

• Presses

- Screen Print

- Litho Sheetfed

- Litho Web

- Digital Page

- Digital Web

• Finishing equipment

- Folding equipment

- Cutting equipment

- Insertion equipment

• Mailing

- Mailing lines

- Inkjet equipment

“ Auto-Count has made a tremendous impact on our operation from a data collection standpoint. Auto-Count provides us the data we’ve been missing to make accurate cost sheet comparisons.”JIM TOMBLINSON, PLANT SUPERINTENDENT, MODERN LITHO-PRINT C