Finishing & Screen Printing
Ventura County Star turns to Harland Simon for their inserter upgrade needs
Tuesday 23. December 2008 - Harland Simon has secured, in quick succession, its 2nd inserter upgrade order; a contract was signed with Ventura County Star, CA to upgrade their inserter controls (ICON) on their two NP 630 Inserters.
The conversion will be carried out over the winter period with all inserters in full production by early 2009, without any disruption to Venturas busy production schedule.
The principle upgrade involves replacing the Goss ICON system with Harland Simons InsertNet controls; in addition, the inserters obsolete PLC and remote I/O will be replaced; both approaches are based on industry standard PC and PLC hardware. Furthermore, Harland Simon will be installing their mailroom upper level Management Information System PRIMA Mailroom Manager. This will oversee Insert Job orders, monitoring, hopper cycles for maintenance and scheduled zone production by micro zips, truck routes and postal walks across both inserters. To further integrate 3rd party systems, interfaces to Venturas in-line Ink Jet Printer and PBS circulation systems are included, with all route information stored and processed via Mailroom Manager.
At all times, the existing system will remain operational until the new system is fully tested and commissioned, which eliminates any risk to production. This method also keeps costs down whilst replacing all the vulnerable parts of the system. The solution is based on Harland Simons press controls PressNet techniques that have been successfully developed for the replacement of many press systems over the past 10 years.
This order coincides with the completion of the Register Guards – Eugene, OR inserter upgrade project, which has three inserters, one being double out, a PRIMA Mailroom Manager system and a GSN [Gripper Stacker Node] replacement.
John Staiano, Senior Vice President for Harland Simon, further commented, “We are very pleased to have secured this 2nd inserter upgrade order; the first is always important; however, securing the second proves we have a viable, sustainable product that is welcomed by the market”