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By Significans Automation
Most experts agree that artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most important technologies that humanity has created to date. Like it or not, AI is here to stay, and it will grow exponentially. It’s only a matter of time until this technology becomes an industry-wide standard. So as a printer, your best bet is to deploy and continue to refine your use of AI systems to make yourself and your company more efficient and profitable.
AI is making an enormous impact on the print industry, revolutionizing traditional practices and introducing new, more efficient solutions. It offers huge opportunities to optimize production processes, personalize customer experiences, boost competitiveness, and help employees and management better perform their daily tasks. As AI continues to evolve, it promises a future of greater efficiency, easier customization, and more competitiveness.
Concrete Examples
AI is already changing the commercial printing landscape.
It can improve workflow automation by further speeding up production processes and reducing manual touchpoints. This facilitates leaner production, processes orders faster, assists with shipping and other logistics, tracks inventory and automatically places resupply orders, and takes on much of the “busy work” that eats away at your time—and profits.
Preflighting and ERP integration is a specific application of AI deployed by Significans Automation. Utilizing AI here ensures files are production-ready with logical and configuring query responses to existing ERP systems, ensuring production-readiness and optimized workflows.
Look at TKM Print Solutions, based in Akron, OH, it benefits from AI by instituting advanced preflighting with logic and configuring query responses to its ERP. The result—the business doubled its production output.
Smart Marks and Finishing Tasks is another AI application deployed by Significans Automation. AI-assisted “smart” print layouts help minimize waste by automatically maximizing the capacity of each sheet. AI-enabled systems are able to quickly calculate the best use of space, delivering clever solutions for even the most complex and irregular patterns.
Seattle, WA-based SuperGraphics applies Smart Marks to layouts for finishing tasks. The result—anywhere from five to seven times faster processing times compared to processing times without using AI.
Don’t Be Scared
AI is complicated and often scary. But remember at the end of the day, it’s basically software—just like workflow software, it can be configured to create a specific solution or solve a specific problem. For an assessment of your workflow software systems and how AI can complement them, call Significans Automation at 877-463-4465. Read more about Significans Automation and how it uses AI in the October issue of Digital Output.
Sep2024, Digital Output
