Offset Printing Industry|Sistrade Software

Do you know that you can make a fast estimating of any type of work?

Sistrade software is capable to provide you with all the necessary tools to manage all printing industries which work in the commercial area, producing booklets, magazines, books, newspapers, envelopes, forms and other. It is a completely customizable solution with the power to be implemented according to your specific needs both in terms of necessary modules or tools adjusted to the reality of your company, becoming very flexible at new specifications.

Sistrade software provides you with all the necessary information so that you manage your time and do not let the time to manage you. With all the analytical and statistical information at the reach of mouse clicks, you will have all the tools to control all production costs, making it easier to compare estimated and reached costs, allowing you to see your profit or loss. With the possibility of exporting the most of this data to external software, such as text processors, spreadsheets and other, it provides you with the powerful and more familiar tools and can give you the additional precision tools that MIS|ERP systems are incapable of doing.

General Estimate Data

Estimating any type of job, such as magazines, brochures, catalogue: calculating the number of book blocks and number of the pages per book block; hardcover books: calculating the shape of the cover and the needs of materials (cardboard, canvas, etc.)
Reel and cutting management
Detailed calculation estimate costs
Comparing different scenarios
Simulation of other quantities
Workflow for estimate approval
Application of margins and economic/financial analysis
E-mailing the estimate to the customer

Job Definition

The job components are fully customizable and added to the estimate according to what is required by the estimator
Introduction of items fully adjusted to the company
Definition of the type of format and quantity
Number of pages and items
Definition of open format and closed format
Type of paper and its grammage
Selection of the type of format and the difficulty of the job
Double printing

Printing / Imposition Calculation

The system suggests the paper for printing according to the selected type of machine
The system automatically calculates the printing imposition, according to the set items
The user may change the space between grippers and auxiliary marks
The system estimates the paper consumption, as well as its total cost
The application determines the value of consumed ink, according to the printing area
Type of paper and its grammage
The optimization of the printing imposition is made according to the job to perform, the machine’s capacity, the type of paper, etc.

Operations and Materials

The system indicates the operations to perform according to the previously selected machine
Attribution of estimated costs to the operation
Makes available to change the operations to perform by manufacturing stage
Presents the materials to consume
The user may indicate an operation or manufacturing stage as being subcontract

Estimate Costs Calculation

General costs with components and setup
Printing costs, evaluating the measures on the imposition and the printing time
Costs with colours, depending on the job’s area
Costs with resources/machines, setup times and corresponding requirements
Operations, including subcontract stages
Global cost identifying cost/benefit
Agent and salesmen commissions
Application of financial margins, with margin indexes, commissions, administrative costs, set costs etc.
Financial indicators

Newspaper Printing Estimating

Newspaper printing industry has particular characteristics with the specific needs of management and control of this sector. For obtaining high-quality results, it is essential to have an effective control of all the stages of the production of the work, quick and reliable stock management, as well as information systems that respond to all the processes related to content printing in rotary coldset web offset printers that are reel fed.

Furthermore, it is necessary to have technological solutions to support those responsible for the management and maintenance of the equipment. Insofar as the information system is capable of sending warnings to preventive maintenance of CTP or a printing group of a rotary machine. The aim is to reduce the intervals of waiting for the intervention of equipment, to plan the work in a more efficient and reduce maintenance costs.

Besides the general features of Sistrade software, the module "Newspapers" offers the following features:

Simplicity in performing functions related to the warehouse management
Movement of the reels through the standard IFRA barcode
More efficient consumption control of the paper for publication
Output for job order via a Wi-Fi PDA
Perpetual inventory with just one click
Paper reel control of different clients
Definition of maintenance plans
Issuing corrective maintenance orders
Automatic launching of preventive maintenance orders
Breakdown alerts
Control of maintenance time
Spares management
Maintenance cost

Form Printing Estimating

Sistrade specializes in the forms area, continuous or not. This project comes from the need to implement Sistrade in the printing and packaging industry in the form printing area. It is a completely customizable application, it is very flexible at new specifications.

The entire production cycle is effectively covered by Sistrade®, and allied to the basic features, specific solutions are presented for this sector, among which we highlight:

General Estimate Data

Estimates of continuous printed forms
Definition of duplicates
Reel management
Detailed calculation of an estimate’s costs, conveyors, web-finish and printing
Simulation of other quantities
Workflow for estimate approval
Application of margins and economic/financial analysis
Emailing the estimate to the customer

Job/Copy Definition

The job components are totally customizable and added to the estimate according to what is required by the estimator
Introduction of items fully adjusted to the customer
Definition of the type of format and quantity
Selection of the type of format and job difficulty
Information about the number of copies of the job
Selection of the type of paper, ink consumption, ink sales, grammage, side (CF, CFB or CB), etc.
Possibility to indicate shorter copies
Changing of plates and ink between copies

Printing Stage

The system automatically calculates the imposition, according to the defined items, such as machine, cylinder, formats, number of colours, and other
Information about extra operations to perform while printing (for example, perforation) for each copy
The system estimates the paper consumption, as well as its total cost
The application determines the amount of ink that was consumed, according to the printing area
The optimization of the imposition is made according to the job to perform and also according to the machine

Collector Stage

Ability to indicate other operations to perform during this stage
Automatic calculation of the number of runs
Material consumption, according to the selected operations

Web-Finishing Stage

Possibility of indicating other operations to perform during the web-finish phase
Material consumption according to the selected operations
Changing the items suggested by the system
The system suggests the machine(s) for the accomplishment of tasks

Envelope Printing Estimating

Sistrade software specializes in the envelope printing and confectioning area. This project comes from the need to implement Sistrade® software in the printing and packaging industry which work with envelopes with/without window, automailer, datamailer, normal CF, CF with cut etc. It is a completely customizable application and is very flexible to new specifications.

General Estimate Data

Estimating any type of envelope, bag and automailer
Envelope management and confectioning
Definition of categories
Changing of forms during the job printing
Ink consumption
Detailed cost calculation
Simulation of other quantities
Workflow for estimate approval
Application of margins and economic/financial analysis of the estimate
Emailing the estimate to the customer

Job Definition

The job components are fully customizable and added to the estimate according to what is required by the estimator
Introduction of items fully adjusted to the customer
Definition of the type of format and quantity
Top fold and seal dimensions
Side fold dimension
Information about the paper (whether it was provided by the customer or not)
Information about the separation value on the minimum/maximum feed
Quantity per line / box/ pallet
Indicating the number of colours
Changing of forms and ink between copies

Envelopes Printing/ Confectioning

The system automatically calculates the imposition, according to the defined items, such as machine, cylinder, formats, number of colours, and others
Indication of extra operations to perform while printing (for example, perforation) for each copy
The system estimates the paper consumption, as well as its total cost
The application determines the amount of ink that was consumed, according to the printing area
The optimization of the imposition is made according to the job to perform, the machine's capacity, the type of paper, etc.
The system suggests the paper for printing according to the selected type of machine