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PRINT INDUSTRY MANAGEMENT AND CONTROLOpen Source Enterprise Material Planning System for Print,
Label, Flexo, Packaging and related industries.
We believe that developing software is an art. Whether you need an app or a complete solution, there are countless ways by which you can go wrong. It takes decades of experience to navigate the technology landscape that has very few constants.
Many of our customers are first time adopters of custom solutions and our results speak for themselves. Our customers count on us to be discrete therefore we cannot disclose a lot.
A well designed custom solution is cost effective as it will make your employees more productive.
Our PRIMAC ERP has been implemented at hundreds of plants world wide. Soon to be followed by the completely new PRIMAC-NESQ.
We can show you how a custom developed solution will make your team more productive than a commercial off the shelf (COTS) solution.
We have helped hundreds of companies in the past three decades, many of whome are first time adopters of enterprise systems.
With more than a hundred implementations around the world, our Print Industry Management and Control (PRIMAC) MERP has been at the forefront at small and large multi-plant enterprises. PRIMAC ERP inlcudes a coplete set of tools to manage producton, inventory and financials. Deployed in virtually all segments of the printing industry, including, commercial sheetfed, high-volume commercial web publications, book publishing, packaging, flexible carton, roll label and mail-order & fulfillment industries.
Free & Open Source Manufacturing Enterprise Resource Package. Building on PRIMAC's legacy, we have now changed the rules for Manufacturing ERP. PRIMAC NESQ is a complete system for creating, modifying and maintaining custom applications.
PRIMAC NESQ is based on the popular MongoDB NOSQL database management system. The application uses the AngularJS framework and the server relies upon NodeJS for serving the web-pages.
Released under GPLv3. Based on the latest open source technologies that enable high transaction rates, PRIMAC NESQ will be released under the GPLv3 license. Meaning that you are free to download the source code and modify it for your own use. You can even package and sell it as your own product, as long as you make any derivative works also available under the same licensing terms.
PRIMAC NESQ features the following technologies:
The first version of PRIMAC-NESQ will be released in the first half of 2016. The source code repository on github will be made available to the world starting in 2016.
Having flexibility and control in your manufacturing processes is the key to extracting maximum productivity in your business. Primac’s Print Manufacturing Resource Management ERP solution contains a full suite of modules that comprehensively cover all aspects of managing your production jobs throughout the enterprise. All modules are flexible and tightly integrated. PRIMAC’s production planning suite of products are designed for the enterprise and are focused on specific departmental tasks.
SFIS provides touch screen and barcode driven Time & Material (T&M) postings track all your job costs down to the serial number of the raw materials posted.
SFIS automates the colloection of labor time, material usage, and job status informaton from all areas of the plant - from pre-press to shipping. Data is more accurate and errors are caught at the source. With a robust posting process, supervisors can review and edit information submitted in real-time.
Using touch-screen monitors, SFIS not only provides a faster and easier way for plant personnel to enter labor and material transactions, now adds the ability to bring more information back to the plant floor. This includes review of time sheets, real-time job review, and with direct access to all other functions in Primac, plant staff and supervisors can see schedule status, inventory, job tracking and any other PRIMAC functions their security level will allow.
All data is validated as entered, then immediately forwarded to the host PRIMAC server, where it flows through the fully integrated relational database to job costing, WIP, inventory, and payroll. It also feeds real-time views in job tracking and scheduling. Touch-screens are faster and easier to use for employees, even for those employees who sometimes have struggled with Barcode wands. However, Barcode scanners can still be used to scan bar coded items, such as paper roll numbers, job numbers, etc.
Information continuously flows between SFIS and other PRIMAC modules such as Job Costing and Production Scheduling systems.
The heart of PRIMAC, it provides full absorption and tracking of job costing across cost centers, departments and plants.
PRIMAC’s Job Costing and Tracking System (JCS) is designed to capture job cost dimensions at different granularities. Whether you operate on full cost absorption or direct costs plus markup, you can establish detail job cost and production standards. These standards combine with estimating data that includes operations, materials, outside services, shipping and miscellaneous costs required to complete a job.
PRIMAC Job Costing will allow you to calculate profitability and value-added for estimates and actual job costs. All job cost reports, estimates, estimate-to-actual reports, actual-to-standard reports and other efficiency reports are all based on the direct costs, optional overheads, and production standards you have defined in the Job Costing System.
The Job Costing System or JCS is the heart of PRIMAC’s production management suite. It is completely integrated with all other modules as information flows freely from and to the Job Costing Module.
The Job Costing System is designed with the enterprise in mind and can easily scale from a few users to thousands of users. It includes a number of time-saving features, such as:
Take control of your due dates and your daily production planning meetings. Know the status of each component of your job.
The Production Scheduling System completes the closed-loop production information system necessary to manage graphic arts production in today's world of "just-in-time" deliveries, volatile schedules, and tight job turnaround.
Creating your daily production lineups in today’s production environment with fast changing priorities will be simple and concise and the System will not get in your way. The Production Scheduling System is a tool that that will keep all your production departments on the same page.
The Production Scheduling System can also completely integrated with the Shop Floor Information System (SFIS) and Inventory and can also function as a stand along system.
Our philosophy is that each print manufacturer has a unique niche in today’s hyper electronic world, and any automation must take into account the unique nature of your business that only you can best understand. PRIMAC’s Production Scheduling system is a system designed to complement you and provide you with the basic tools for you to be more productive.
We can create a customized electronic job ticket. Reduce chances of error and wastage of time and view your workticket on any device.
PRIMAC’s new Job Ticket System is a completely redesigned as a web-based application. It is also now available as a cloud based system available on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Platform. We can now quickly setup an instances for you without the need for you to purchase expensive hardware and maintain that hardware. You only pay a service fee based on the level of usage.
The Job Ticket System (JTS) is a flexible tool designed to record every specification for all of your jobs. You can use our standard job ticket or we can add custom fields and create a specific ticket based on your needs. JTS can import data from other PRIMAC or non-PRIMAC systems automatically so that you do not have to re-enter the same information in multiple systems within your organization, saving valuable time and chances of error. Data from the associated job, estimate, and finished goods flow effortlessly into the job ticket. JTS even allows you to capture additional information that is not in any of the source systems.
Order fulfillment for manufacturers who produce, stock and distribute finished goods. Handle and track complex orders with ease.
PRIMAC’s Order Processing and Fulfillment System provides the ability for printers who produce, stock and distribute finished goods products as a Just in Time service for their customers. These are most likely to be sheet or self-adhesive label or carton converters, forms printers, book printers and printers who produce documentation, price or parts books. Many general commercial printers have added fulfillment services and can make good use of OPS. Each item is defined as a finished goods inventory item.
OPS is flexible: it can handle a simple one item, one customer PO order; or process complex orders involving many ship to locations, many items, and customer PO€™s with releases. It is also very helpful for printers and converters who do a lot of repeat or repeat with change printing, even if they do not normally stock the item in finished goods.
In today’s environment of shrinking turnaround time for jobs and orders, PRIMAC’s Order Processing and Fulfillment System is fully integrated with the rest of PRIMAC gives printers a fast and efficient way to meet their customer’s needs.
Flexible system for estimating time and materials for print jobs, including books, roll label, sheetfed, and other types of multi-component print jobs.
PRIMAC’s Job Estimating System, meets a wide and varying demands for estimating print jobs. It provides the flexibility to support different types of printing, including custom long-run, standardized short-run, roll label, case-bound book manufacturing, folding carton, flexographic and converting.
Inherent in the design philosophy of the different estimating systems is the recognition of estimating as more than simply providing the customer with a quote for a job. The Job Estimating System is the basis for detailed instructions fed to the plant, for each individual job fed to the Production Scheduling System, for the Job Jacket produced by the Job Ticket Framework, and for the estimate-to-actual comparisons within the Job Costing System. The Job Estimating System provides the estimator with the means to provide the customer with an accurate quote and to initiate the job seamlessly within the plant.
PRIMAC's Inventory Control System (ICS) is a powerful system to manage inventory costs. You can track your most important costs that cannot be neglected or left to guess work. Extracting the last penny from your production costs can be your most important competitive advantage. From tracking inventory demands, through purchasing and all the way through consumption of the inventory, the Inveontory Control System take the guess work out of managing your inventory. Includes a full line of additional modules to manage your inventory.
The Inventory Control System (CIS) handles all aspects of raw material purchasing and tracking down to the individual skid level. You can now determine what was ordered and on which job it was used. Even finished goods produced can be used on other jobs with a complete audit trail.
Accelerate data entry and virtually eliminate incorrect keystroke entries using our new Intermec based android scanning gun.
The Barcode Inventory System (BIS) accelerates data entries and virtually eliminates incorrect keystroke entries. Barcode entries are used to record stock receipts, adjustments, transfers, and returns to the warehouse. Raw materials can be moved from warehouse to warehouse with ease. Simply scan the material label, move the item to its new location, scan the label again at the new location, and enter the new location number. Any raw material, including paper, ink, plates and other consumables may be bar coded and tracked throughout the system from receipt through consumption. Primac users who instill tight inventory control discipline with BIS find they need to take physical inventory much less frequently, and that any write-off adjustments are minor.
Another value of the Barcode Inventory System is in the tracking skids of folded signatures or job components. The Barcode Inventory System is used to assign and print a skid tag as skids are loaded and wrapped at the folder. An wireless device immediately records the item number or form number, the skid number and its location. Subsequent moves are also recorded in real-time using local area network capable scanners; so, you will know the location and content of each skid at all times. Lost skids are dramatically reduced or even eliminated.
Comprehensive job materials and outside purchase requisition system built to track purchase orders tied to jobs and invoices.
PRIMAC includes a Purchase Order System (POS) that is fully integrated with an optional Purchase Order Requisition (POR) system that allows individual users to create requisitions that require approvals based on PO type and dollar limits. Purchase orders can be tied to individual jobs to ensure that critical dates are taken into account while scheduling jobs and to verify final costing prior to invoicing the job.
Real time work in progress (WIP) tracking of finished and semi-finished materials throughout the plant from production to finishing.
The WIP Skid Content/Locator System is a work in progress tracking system and it is particularly useful for book, catalog and direct mail printers, especially if they are producing multiple versions of a printed item. It provides real-time tracking of work in process skids as they come off press, are moved around in the plant and are eventually consumed in binding or other finishing operations, or when they are scrapped. Warehouse forklift operators now have an excellent tool for finding skids and moving them to the next production operation promptly.
All of our users tell us this system paid for itself in under a year, often less, by eliminating time spent manually keeping track of such skids, preventing re-runs to reprint signatures that were on lost skids, and reducing disruptions to always tight job schedules.
Tracking of financial informaiton including revenue, expenses and job costs in a complext enterprise structure. Includes a General Ledger, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable systems.
A robust Accounts Payable System (APS) is part of Primac Financials, fully integrated with other procurement components including Purchase Order, Receipts and Job Costing. Like all other Primac systems APS is designed to reduce errors by allowing users to review all entries prior to posting. With a full set of reports it allows companies to efficiently manage their cash-flow. A fully integrated requisition system allows companies to set approval levels for purchase orders – by user-name and PO type.
The General Ledger System (GLS) provides a user-definable account classification and category code structure. This system is structured for the corporation with multiple companies and divisions. This user-defined tracking level easily accommodates both small and large companies. The category codes are used in developing financial reports and statements, greatly simplifying report maintenance as General Ledger accounts are added.
As a stand-alone application or fully integrated within PRIMAC, the Accounts Receivable System (ARS) will allow you to manage your cash-flow efficiently and effectively. A two-step posting process allows you to review all entries prior to posting them to the General Ledger. A full array of screen inquiries or reports provide cash application activity information by a variety of selection criteria.
We have now released our new Barcode tracking device that runs on the industrial Intermec CN-51 scanners and it is an Android App. That means that it also campatible with millions of Android phones and devices.
No need for your own servers or infrastructures. PRIMAC on the cloud is now available as an EC2 instance on the Amazon Web Services cloud. No need for upfront infrastructure costs, pay as you go and upgrade when you need.
Building on PRIMAC's legacy, NESQ is an open source version of PRIMAC based on MongoDB, NodeJS, and AngularJS. Released under GPLv3, it is a complete framework for customizing it for your needs.
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