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Need of the hour for every Indian Printer Pentaforce - expanding the convergence ratio of existing services with an emphasis on performance, sustainability and the creation of new revenue streams for printers. As a printing press owner, do now know exactly what is happening at your presses LIVE while you are not around at your unit? Does productivity of your press, on-a-daily basis, bother you? Does operator performance monitoring, an issue with you?
Well, if your answer is ‘yes’ to any of the above questions, you have a solution now. CountWONDER, a product developed by Pentaforce Software Solutions, captures real-time data and helps you serve customers by providing insights into the ongoing production on your shop floor for efficient production management. In fact, it is the next step in the development of Pentaforce’s product portfolio, expanding the convergence ratio of existing services with an emphasis on performance, sustainability and the creation of new revenue streams for printers. This next generation IoT technology builds intelligence on your shop floor, helping you use production data to make strategic business decisions that optimize workflow and production capabilities. Speaking to PRESSIdeas, Mr.Madan Singh of Pentaforce Printing Software says, “The COUNTWonder Wireless Production Monitoring System is an IoT device, when retrofitted on any production machine, automatically captures precise and up-to-the-minute production data directly from machines and provide you Output Counts, Machine Status, Breakdowns and Waiting Periods, Speed of Production, Machine Stoppages and much more.” CountWONDER Pro, a product underdevelopment from the Pentaforce, helps you keep your printing machines escape breakdowns, as it warns you in advance about the mechanical failures much before it actually happens. It keeps checking your machine’s health using Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques and advise you in advance any possibilities of an eminent breakdown. “The interesting part,” says Madan, “is the Enhanced accuracy of production data with real-time WiFi connectivity which means
all events happening on the machine is captured and minimized (overruns and underruns), you get instant availability of job status, extensive reporting and reason codes enabling punctual and economical decisions right there on your smart phone (or desktop/ laptop).” The product involves a hardware installation on the machine to be monitored and then the Automated data collection through the customized software eliminates human intervention thus making it error free and the reports generated from the data collected in the form of visual charts depict the productive/non-productive downtimes. It increases competitiveness and productivity resulting in improved overall visibility and control of production environment enabling you to make profitable decisions. The data can be reviewed on all remote smart devices enabling the user to identify and address any circumstances or issues. For the information our readers, Pentaforce Software Solutions has been in the industry for over two decades now providing it with a fully integrated ERP solution for estimating of printing and packaging jobs which includes PrintFASTQ - a very powerful yet simple tool for Print estimators to make estimates of leaflets, booklets, magazines, calendars, diaries, folding cartons, corrugated boxes, flexo labels, generates client quotations, Print MIS, sales order management, job dockets, job sheets/job cards, Print STOCK, - Stock management, Print Scheduler - print production scheduling,and Print Workflow - Workflow with production capture and monitoring. Print Wonder powered by PrintDMS, provides - Document management to retrieve all your physical documents like orders placed by clients, amendments to orders, correspondence with clients, pressready files (Adobe Photoshop,
Adobe In-design, CorelDraw, PDF or any other formats) thus enhancing and optimizing the performance of your press with cuttingedge Print WONDER ERP, a complete ERP solution, printing ERP and packaging ERP for printing and packaging industry. “Make-in-India has always been in our soul and so the entire range of software like PrintFASTQ, PrintMIS, Print SCHEDULAR, Print WORKFLOW, Print STOCK and PrintDMS are products well accepted by the industry and with our new offering of CountWONDER, it has added a jewel to our crown - all for the printers of our country,” says Madan. Pentaforce has CountWONDER already installed in leading presses like Webtech Label Pvt Ltd. ( A Huhtamaki-PPL Group Company) for the last over an year with 23 CountWONDER units. “Temple Packaging had asked for 4 CountWONDER units for trial last December 2020, and after successful trial and evaluation, now have placed an order for two of their units, one at DAMAN and other at HYDERABAD, of which delivery is in progress” beams Madan.
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