Reactive

Reactive

Organized

Digitized

Connected

Intelligent

Reactive

Wow! Your company is a real fire fighter. You're working hard!
Operators complete tasks manually and offline. You react on the external pressure of customers and suppliers by working very hard and making late hours if need be.

Find out below how Esko can help you level up

Leadership concerns at this stage

Leadership style
‘Just Do It‘ mentality, the owner works the shop floor, sleeves rolled up.
Business growth
Focus on survival. Keep the customer happy.
Print quality
Quality relies on expertise of individuals.
Timeliness
Fight deadlines with overtime.
Environmental sustainability
Vague statements on a corporate web page.
Equipment effectiveness
Investments driven by gut feeling. Adding hardware is preferred way to increase capacity.

What a reactive workflow looks like

Customer communication
Account managers chase orders with phone, email, an FTP server and a basic file system.

How Esko can help you

Esko Share & Approve streamlines communication, collaboration and approval cycles with your customers.

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Internal communication
Paper job bags and handwritten forms.
Artwork preparation
Prepress is outsourced or executed manually using nonprofessional tools.

How Esko can help you

For structural CAD, ArtiosCAD will help. It's the dedicated 3D editor for CAD. one or more seat licenses.

For prepress: Illustrator DeskPack plug-ins or ArtPro+ will make a big difference. Dedicated packaging prepress functionality makes operator faster and guarantees quality.

Good for print approval
Customer approval happens on the printing press.

How Esko can help you

Esko Share & Approve streamlines communication, collaboration and approval cycles with your customers.

Try Share & Approve for free!

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Sheet layout
Manually executed by an operator using non-professional tools.

How Esko can help you

The DeskPack plug-ins for Illustrator and the prepress editor ArtPro+ have dedicated sheet layout functionality on board.

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Plate making
All plate making is outsourced.

How Esko can help you

Bring platemaking in house with a CDI flexo imager.

Press
There is a vague notion of equipment uptime. Production planning based on availability only.
Post-press
All toolmaking operations are outsourced.

How Esko can help you

ArtiosCAD, the dedicated packaging CAD editor has die-cut making functionality on board.

Packing & shipping logistics
Unplanned manual material movements and storage of work in progress.

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