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Packaging Imposition Software & Layout Solution – Metrix
eProductivity Software Metrix is a packaging imposition software and industry-leading award-winning job planning engine. It creates powerful layout plans with AI driven intelligence in seconds, driving more accurate and responsive estimates, and increased utilization on press.
Metrix can be used to plan conventional sheet and roll-fed presses, digital cutsheet devices, roll-to-roll and flatbed inkjet presses, as well as packaging layouts for tag-and-label and folding-carton applications.
Metrix is available in both standalone and integrated configuration for eProductivity Software’s Radius ERP platform or as a component of a 3rd party workflow or MIS.
When the planning and imposition tasks were performed separately, each could require from 20 minutes to hours to complete. With Metrix, both are accomplished in minutes. That will even save wash-ups.
If we tried to handle that growth doing estimating, planning and prepress the old way, it would have been impossible.
Metrix is an exceptional tool to increase throughput in job planning and prepress as well as in the pressroom.
A new employee found the Metrix software so intuitive, that he became a fully productive member of the team within a week.
With Metrix, we have been able to automate the planning and imposition of hundreds of orders we receive each day—in fact, Metrix saves us two hours of labor every day.
Our Estimators and Planners do all our layouts in Metrix. Prepress now spends much less time working with layouts.
Powerful Layout Plans with AI-Driven Intelligence
Dynamic
Dynamic scheduling views, real-time production, and schedule status at a glance with drag-and-drop schedule editing and conflict alerts
Intelligent
Smart, automated production planning using the most cost-efficient job path and a highly visual workflow review
Optimized
A holistic “global” approach, rather than the traditional individual jobs or work centers
Intuitive
Powerful what-if scenarios that let you evaluate the business impact of schedule changes
What is Metrix?
eProductivity Software Metrix is an industry-leading award-winning job planning engine that creates powerful layout plans with AI driven intelligence in seconds, driving more accurate and responsive estimates, and increased utilization on press. Metrix can be used to plan conventional sheet and roll-fed presses, digital cutsheet devices, roll-to-roll and flatbed inkjet presses, as well as packaging layouts for tag-and-label and folding-carton applications.
It dynamically creates layouts based on the conditions in your plant, and models the cost of running that equipment into its calculations. This ensures that you get the best possible layout for your production, with the lowest handling time and costs.
Metrix has the unique ability to instantly and effectively compare thousands of different layout combinations—and produce the best one. This ensures that you get the best layout and imposition plan for your production, while also reducing prepress labor costs by up to 50%. This makes Metrix the most cost effective and efficient solution on the market, and the perfect choice for optimizing your production.
Packaging Imposition Software with Metrix
Metrix brings a unique blend of automation and cost-driven layout creation to your business. Our software simplifies the print layout process, allowing you to create complex and detailed print layouts in a fraction of the time. With Metrix, you can dynamically determine the optimum layout for each press sheet, figure out the most cost-effective printing method, and even process up to 160 different orders on a single layout.
Metrix stores centrally important information about your presses, finishing equipment, stocks, folds, user logins and permissions, along with your manufacturing standards. This helps to make sure that all of your data is organized and kept up-to-date, allowing you to quickly access the information you need to produce high-quality prints.
Pre-Press & Production
For commercial printing, Metrix is available as a standalone application which can also integrate with many leading pre-press workflow solutions such as Kodak® Prinergy, AGFA® Apogee, Heidelberg® Prinect, Fujifilm® XMF to provide automated imposition and layouts. Metrix can produce intent based JDF for 3rd party prepress solutions or fully imposed PDFs making it versatile and adaptable for most applications. Metrix provides time saving automation, and intelligent cost driven imposition, which enables it to dynamically assign jobs to the correct press based on operator, material and equipment operational cost data – unlike traditional imposition tools. This data can be used in the estimation process, to drive more accurate job costing.
Estimating, Planning & Layout Automation
When integrated as part of an eProductivity Software or 3rd party MIS or ERP, Metrix enables you to include production environment data in the planning and layout process, providing a critical link between prepress, planning, estimating and production, eliminating errors, streamlining processes, optimizing manufacturing, lowering costs, and improving quality. In addition, when integrated, Metrix drives improved estimation and scheduling tasks with real-time accurate job costing and planning data.
Automation
Metrix automatically and dynamically determines how many press sheets you need, the optimum layout for each press sheet, and even figures out the most cost-effective printing method, press, and sheet size. Automatic, dynamic, and unsurpassed, processing hundreds of different orders (products) on a single layout. Once the layouts are planned, export JDF or imposed PDF to prepress, JDF or CIP4 to finishing, and barcoded information to your shipping department.
Purposed-Built Packaging Imposition Software
When integrated as a component of the eProductivity Software Packaging Suite or as a standalone solution, Metrix delivers highly optimized print change calculations for tag and label printing as well as folding carton production. Built directly into the Radius UX, the Metrix engine can analyze thousands of different layout combinations, selecting the most efficient based on ink and material utilization. This dramatically reduces operational costs, for tasks that are traditionally time and labor intensive.
Built for Wide Format
Metrix’s advanced nesting and step and repeat tools are designed to generate the most cost effective layouts for wide format, sign and display printing and graphics. Where substrate and material represent the biggest cost component of any job, Metrix drives maximum utilization and profit to your operation. Metrix can even correct and realign crop marks, sending data directly to your cutters for full production automation.
As an integrated solution, Metrix works with eProductivity Software’s leading purpose-built technology solutions (including Pace, Radius and Monarch) to deliver a seamless set of planning and layout tools built into the base MIS/ERP platform.
Integrated Edition
Administrators and users access key features within the based MIS/ERP application user interface, which then send data back to Metrix behind the scenes for processing.
Operators don’t need cross-training on a new product and continue to use the MIS/ERP tools they are familiar with.
Provides an integrated solution for combining the layout, planning, and estimation processes.
CSR’s can easily plan a job to a device, creating a layout that provides them with extremely rapid and accurate cost modelling – helping to maintain profitability.
Standalone Edition
The Metrix standalone solution can be used with virtually any pre-press solution including Kodak® Prinergy, AGFA® Apogee, Fuji® System XMF and any workflow solution with a support for the JDF/XML protocol.
Metrix is licensed per desktop client, and enables teams to plan, arrange and generate print ready layouts.
Metrix’s unique proprietary shop floor data based enables users to manage and plan jobs according to equipment specification and cost – something no other solution offers.
Who is Metrix designed for?
Commercial Printing
Quick Print Shops
Display Graphics
Packaging
Digital & Offset Printing
To learn more about Metrix, check out the brochure and case study.
Always-On Cloud-Ready Services
As an eProductivity Software cloud-managed solution you won’t ever have to worry about MarketDirect server availability or uptime, you can focus on servicing your customers and your business. Our professional services team keeps your solution up to date and running smoothly, alerting you to potential threats and providing 24/7 monitoring.
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