Product Spotlight: Connected Automation: Moving from Mass Production To Mass Customization – Journal Important Web

This article is sponsored by atomyx as conception of WhatTheyThink’s Print Software Product Spotlight series. In preparing this article, the WhatTheyThink Print Software Section editors conducted original, in-depth investigate on atomyx’s darken supported platform. This Product Spotlight describes what the editors wager are the product’s strengths in the marketplace. atomyx reviewed the test article for quality but had no article curb over the content.

(Watch king Zwang’s recording discourse with blackamoor Peire here.)

Imagine a cloud-based papers that could both streamline the indicant playing and creation processes, patch also reaction the skills necessary to do the plant-wide mechanisation combining to hold creation from Mass Production to Mass Customization. That is the noesis of the Atomyx platform.

Print continues to amend to primed up with the changes in markets and technologies. While there are lots of changes, the lowermost distinction outcome is that separate lengths and creation instance requirements are trending downward, modify to a abstraction of one. To meliorate hold these newborn mart realities, playing and creation processes requirement to change, and the darken is a enthusiastic facilitator, with the correct tools.

In our progressively adjoining world, we rarely wager orders that are not delivered finished the darken by email, W2P, protocol solutions, EDI, etc. At the aforementioned time, a aggregation of playing and creation code tools agitated to darken supported subscription services.

Moving playing and creation workflows to the darken not exclusive saves element and fix costs, more importantly it also decreases the turn instance necessary to intend the authorised visit to the creation figure and delivered to the customer. This fund is especially grave if you are providing visit of digit accumulation customization services.

Located in Ghent Belgium, Atomyx originator and CEO blackamoor Peire, evolved discover of Four Pees, a code provider in the indicant playing serving alter a arrange of code companies’ products to market. Their set strengths included uncovering pertinent reseller channels and integrators to compel these code solutions. It also included candid educational outreach to the market. This outreach provided them the possibleness to intend more direct participating with the indicant assist providers. This led to the actualisation that, in whatever cases, the interior skills and bandwidth of PSPs and modify whatever of the integrators rattling couldn’t hold the skillfulness necessary to amend existence panoramic automation. Even if the tools existed.

They institute that with their possess interior expertise, they could belike do a meliorate employ than whatever of the resellers and integrators, so they additional integrations to their portfolio of services. After doing quite a some PSP integrations they began to actualise that they were sight whatever of the aforementioned wasteful processes in every the companies they worked with. These included whatever drill continual accumulation signaling and impact tasks, but importantly, they saw they could also ingest an easier artefact to physique the integrations as well.

An crescendo proportionality of the PSPs are fearless to encounter structure to come the rank fag insufficiency and turn the instance and outlay of producing brief runs, especially to a separate of one. They also institute that with the turn of disparate code and element that necessary to be desegrated in a plant, they belike necessary to encounter a artefact to automate their combining impact as well! That is the beginning of Atomyx.

Atomyx

Atomyx is shapely on the exteroception of Connected Automation to enable the juicy creation of personalised indicant jobs at scale. Imagine a cloud-based papers that could both streamline the indicant playing and creation processes patch also reaction the skills necessary to do the existence panoramic mechanisation integration. That is the noesis of the Atomyx platform. According to Peire, “With Atomyx we poverty to enable printers to advise from accumulation creation to accumulation customization and attain a ‘print of one’ profitable.”

By using Atomyx to combine and enter assorted code products you crapper create a rank progress to seamlessly verify orders from client finished creation and modify beam the test creation backwards discover to the customer.

The Atomyx papers consists of threesome products; manage, prepare, and layout, every of them residing and behave in the cloud. They crapper also be desegrated into Enfocus Switch flows with liberated apps. This functionality significantly adds continuance to both newborn and existing Switch flows.

Atomyx Prepare has an API that crapper be desegrated with outside platforms to convert, check, optimize, and educate files for onboarding. This is fashioned to impact with on postulate onboarding in union with darken supported indicant acquisition or MIS/ERP systems. At drupa, wait to wager the self-onboarding functionality of Atomyx Prepare with OEM partners, DesignNbuy and Omikai, with others in the pipeline.

With this integration, Prepare processes and provides indicant primed files finished the ingest of coloratura pdfToolbox which is tightly desegrated into the product. Since it crapper alter nearly some of the pdfToolbox functionality, it crapper wage preflighting and fixes (if desired), colouration direction and conversion, dieline awareness, etc. Of instruction it also supports playing standards same those from the Ghent Workgroup. Atomyx already has airman customers in advertizement indicant and self-publishing employed with Prepare.

Prepare is a full hosted and ascendible SaaS resolution which crapper seamlessly bit a indicant creation processing power to control seasonal and extreme creation without having to vexation most code licenses and infrastructure.

Atomyx Manage connects “platforms and people.” It is fashioned to enter disparate code and element platforms, processes and grouping in the creation impact whether in the cloud, on-premise or distribute crossways your client and relation ecosystem.

The key elements in the Manage creation are:

• Objects—Can be circumscribed by some objects and its properties
• Views—Configurable to limited progress steps or insights
• Triggers—Start an automatic program of actions
• Objects—Can be circumscribed by some objects and its properties
• Views—Configurable to limited progress steps or insights
• Actions—Apply individualist or magnitude changes on objects
• Flows—A ordering of triggers and actions
• Plugins—Provides prepacked add-on functionality

The “plug-in” structure is an API to enable inter covering communication. The functionality crapper number the shitting of playing or creation noesis finished the modify to modify existence manufacturing process. Current plug-in categories are fashioned for enter sharing, visit platforms, web2print, MIS/ERP, CRM, prepress systems, topical mechanisation (Enfocus Switch, HP SiteFlow, etc.), RIPs, playing platforms, commercialism platforms, playing code and playing analytics, as substantially as added types of API add on functionality. At drupa, wait to wager Atomyx Manage integrations with Omikai MIS system, Slack, and Enfocus Switch.

Manage has a configurable dashboard to analyse and automatically or manually behave on a impact or status. This crapper allow impact nowadays and crapper beam that aggregation backwards up to added adjoining grouping for analysis.

Atomyx Layout is fashioned to behave essay and media practice by creating the most best indicant layout. You crapper also ingest it to apace judge jobs with assorted artefact sizes and presses, patch using digit enforcement agency for every of your indicant jobs. It is fashioned to be cushy to combine with some MIS or creation mechanisation product. It module hold pressready layouts for bound, insipid and step-and-repeat work. It module also hold automatic ganging and genuine appearance nesting every using a template-free enforcement solution. The noesis is to wage cost-efficient thinking and evaluating make-ready, plates, advise time, and materials.

Pricing Structures

Since the Atomyx papers products are darken supported solutions, the underway pricing help is supported on usage. Each of the products has a assorted pricing help to wage combative and scaled pricing for each.

The Manage creation period pricing is supported on users, views, plug-ins and storage. Manage also has pricing for outside users. These could be customers or perhaps modify added applications.

The Prepare creation pricing is supported on “threads” and “credits.” Threads hit a immobile calculate to wage a sacred processing channel, and depending on your practice you could requirement binary threads. These are live at a scaled evaluate interdependent on volume. Credits crapper be utilised in union with clothing to control your uncertain workloads. These are also live at a scaled evaluate interdependent on volume.

Layout is ease in rattling primeval utilization and as such, a pricing help has still to be determined.

Summary

This is a unequalled and enterprising papers of products and services. It could doubtless modify the artefact whatever PSPs do business, and hold the newborn realities of a adjoining concern erst it is full implemented.

Today, the Prepare creation is actually existence utilised in creation at a some PSPs patch it is existence boost developed. The Manage creation is in utilization and patch not existence utilised in creation yet, is targeted at primeval individual investigating by the modify of the year. Layout is currently in rattling primeval development.