Connecting The Dots

摘要

Strategic platforms... Smart factories... Job recipes... Integrated workflows- together, they are defining the efficiency of print production floors, starting today and gaining momentum as the future unfolds."We are living through a period of profound transformation in our industry and our approach is to embrace that transformation and provide new opportunities for our customers," said Jean-Pascal Bobst, CEO of Bobst Group. "The solutions we provide mean converters and brand owners can cope with the shifting pressures and rapidly-changing environment that they face." He admitted that brand owners are demanding more and more diverse jobs, multiple SKUs, shorter production time and lower cost in a very competitive market. As a result, he said, "New business models (e.g., web-to-print) are getting more and more important and cannot be addressed with a pure analog or a pure digital machine." At a June 9 online press briefing, attended by FLEXO Magazine, the CEO proclaimed, "We have set out to shape the future of the packaging world by actively driving industry transformation: from a mechanical to a digital world and from manufacturing machines to process solutions along the entire workflow." He immediately promised that the new business model will "define efficiency and increases profitability while investing in digitalization." The goals: "Improve machine synergies, optimize the production footprint, increase flexibility and reduce fixed costs."