Fix presses faster with remote service

摘要

Vendors at PRINT 05 & CONVERTING 05, September 9-15 in Chicago, will showcase the power of remote diagnostics. "In the future, every press will have it," says Todd Petzak, pressroom manager at Van Lanen Printing Co. (Green Bay, WI). "It's definitely the way everybody is going," agrees Gil Ramos, Bobst Group's (Roseland, NJ) technical service manager for SP folding carton products. "Most of our machines going to [the show] will have it built in." At LITHExcel (Albuquerque, NM), President Waleed Ashoo also anticipates an emphasis on remote service at the show. "The manufacturers are going to push it and they should," he says. "My decisions on purchasing depend on how I'm going to reduce labor costs and how the manufacturer is going to help me keep the equipment up 98 or 99 percent of the time."