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Entourage Yearbooks, a Next generation yearbook provider, invests in the CONNECT Data Collection and Analytics Platform For further information, contact: spencermetrics@3.83.213.195, 1-631-367-6655 Entourage Yearbooks invests in SpencerMetrics’ CONNECT Data Collection and Analytics Platform Melville, NY – 3 October 2023 — Entourage Yearbooks, one of the most innovative yearbook producers, has implemented the SpencerMetrics CONNECT® platform for data-driven print production management. CONNECT; automates Entourage’s data collection and reporting, enabling real-time visibility to understand and control their print and finishing production capacity and operational costs. During yearbook peak season, Entourage utilizes its total production capacity and outsources orders that exceed its in-house capacity. Knowing what they can produce in-house, maximizing the utilization of equipment and labor resources available, and tracking production metrics

Melville, NY – September 21, 2023 – Celebrating a remarkable ten-year journey serving the print, labels, and packaging industry, SpencerMetrics has been at the forefront of delivering state-of-the-art data-driven insights and productivity solutions that elevate shop floor operations, foster continuous improvement, and drive revenue growth. Since its inception in 2013, SpencerMetrics has meticulously crafted automatic data collection and analysis solutions. Building upon years of operational excellence and customer feedback, the SpencerMetrics patented CONNECT® solution has emerged as a beacon of excellence – renowned for its advanced, targeted, up-to-the-minute, and on-demand analytics – seamlessly connecting with both digital and conventional printing and finishing machines. Its unique ability to harness precise, real-time shop floor data while enhancing the operator experience sets it

Melville, NY – 07 February 2023 — SpencerMetrics today announced the immediate availability of BEACON, the digital Andon module for its CONNECT® Industry 4.0 platform. CONNECT provides real-time data collection, monitoring, reporting, and integrated systems connectivity and the introduced BEACON Andon module provides many additional production efficiency benefits including visual signals, email alerts, SMS texts and dashboard monitor display messaging. An Andon system is designed as a communication tool in manufacturing to alert machine operators, maintenance staff, and management of production issues. Typically, Andon allows the operator to stop production if a defect or quality problem is found so that corrective measures can be taken immediately, before production moves forward. In traditional implementations, the alert is displayed simply on a light tower

 Melville, NY – 11 October 2022 — Marathon Press Inc. (“Marathon”), one of the most unique printing and photo labs in the United States, has invested in efficiency and productivity automation with the SpencerMetrics LYNK® solution. LYNK provides fully automated, touchless, real-time data collection, monitoring, and reporting from multi-vendor, multi-technology production equipment.   Marathon offers full-color digital printing, email marketing, graphic design, web-to-print online ordering, specializing in printing yearbooks, children’s books, photo books, and specialty books. Marathon is also a wholesale outsource provider for other printing companies and online photo businesses. Their Norfolk, Nebraska production facility operates high-end digital production equipment from multiple vendors including HP, Konica Minolta, Horizon, etc. With thousands of short-run variable jobs to track, the manual steps

Melville, NY – 17 August 2022 — Lakeside Book Company (“Lakeside”), the largest book producer in the United States, has transformed its digital manufacturing operations with the SpencerMetrics CONNECT® Industry 4.0 platform. The solution provides real-time data collection, monitoring, reporting, and integrated systems connectivity at Lakeside’s multiple production facilities. With the exponential growth in recent years of books-on-demand, Lakeside’s production team has been challenged to balance increased order volume with that of available capacity and resources. Equipment utilization, labor shortages, and productivity have been key components impacting all print operations. In light of the current social and business climate, CONNECT has proven to be an indispensable partner solution for managing operations. Performance metrics for equipment, labor, jobs, material usage, waste,

Melville, NY – 17 March 2022 — SpencerMetrics, the premier provider of real-time data collection, analysis and reporting automation solutions for Print & Packaging, announced integration and support for Zünd cutting tables. Zünd users can now experience the benefits of SpencerMetrics CONNECT® and LYNK™. With one of the broadest multi-vendor, multi-technology support capabilities in the Print and Packaging industry, SpencerMetrics offers an enterprise-wide platform to gather and analyze data from vital equipment on the production floor. Intelligent software communication enable CONNECT and LYNK solutions to automatically collect rich data including machine status, jobs information, counts, material usage, etc., eliminating manual data collection. Further, these solutions bridge islands of automation across many varied vendor-specific products. Conventional, legacy equipment is integrated into the platform

Melville, NY, 1 March 2022 – Hal Leonard Corporation, the world’s largest print music publisher, has invested in the SpencerMetrics CONNECT® platform for data-driven production management. CONNECT will automate Hal Leonard’s data collection and reporting, enabling real-time insights and visibility to understand and optimize their production costs. Installed in Hal Leonard’s Winona, Minnesota production and distribution site, CONNECT works with a variety of production equipment from multiple manufacturers, including digital and offset print production presses and a wide range of finishing equipment. CONNECT’s multi-vendor, multi-technology platform provides a standardized and automated method to capture and analyze accurate metrics, identify effectual ways to improve machine and labor utilization, and to maximize productivity and control costs. In addition to the Winona, USA

Melville, NY – 20 September 2021 – SpencerMetrics is celebrating eight years of servicing the print, labels, and packaging industry. Its state-of-the-art data-driven productivity solutions add value to any shop floor and support operations to continuously improve workflows. Since its inception in 2013, SpencerMetrics has designed three automatic data collection and analysis solutions. Its patented CONNECT® solution is known for its advanced, targeted, on-demand analytics and connection to any digital printing or finishing machines. It is also noted for its ability to collect accurate shop floor data while enhancing the operator experience. After years of running in live production with customer feedback, it launched AUTOMATER™ in 2018. This IIoT-based solution allows the smart technology from CONNECT to be utilized by

Melville, NY – 16 June 2021 – SpencerMetrics has announced JobHub, its latest feature addition to both its LYNK and CONNECT productivity solutions. JobHub automatically creates a repository of all jobs run across the production floor on all connected machines, regardless of vendor or technology. These may include printers/presses, finishers/converters, inserters, mailing machines, packaging machines, etc. Leveraging data collected from the production floor, JobHub creates a map that tracks each job through its production steps. As each job is processed through its production workflow, such as through printing, cutting, binding, etc., the JobHub map shows how much time and resources were needed in each cost center. JobHub automatically shows the actual run time on each machine, and also calculates any time