Newspaper & Mailroom

ABB at the World Publishing Expo, Amsterdam

Thursday 21. August 2014 - ABB, one of the leading suppliers of automation solutions for the newspaper industry, will be focusing on its latest innovations that can contribute to business success in newspaper production.

These includes ABB’s latest modular press retrofit solutions that are tailored to almost any press type. These allow the life of a newspaper press to be extended in the most cost-effective way possible. The modular solutions include drives, controls, control console and press management system replacements.
ABB will be showing the latest releases of several of its production management systems, all based on Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8.1. The new release of the press management system MPS Production includes the completely redeveloped “Online Production Viewer”, the web-based production monitoring module. The latest releases of the plant-wide production management system MPS Cockpit and the reporting system MPS Insight include a new CSV import function for mailroom data that allows the generation of a wide range of detailed reports.
The ABB team will also be explaining the advantages of its highly successful MPS DistributionDataPlanner that is greatly simplifying the handling of the distribution of third-party orders at a number of sites in Europe.