A JDF workflow allows Pageworks to track a job from initiation through completion. JDF supports a bi-directional workflow, meaning that our MIS, or command center, can talk to our equipment throughout the production process, and the equipment can talk back to us. This process helps us improve efficiency by increasing throughput, reduces costs, facilitates better reporting and analysis, minimizes manual intervention and redundant work, and provides faster and more accurate billing.

The compelling reason for choosing a JDF workflow lies in its ability to provide a common language that is vendor-neutral, which allows for an open system solution, providing greater flexibility when choosing the best products for your workflow. Our JDF integrated workflow, though currently only partially implemented, has the potential to provide significant gains in our effort to reduce costs and production cycle time, as well as increase flexibility to better meet our customer's requirement. We are in a multi-phase process of connecting "islands of automation" together, one at a time, working toward a goal of total process automation that will ultimately result in improved turn-around times.