Overview
EFI Monarch is a flexible, powerful, intelligent, and automated print production and management solution for large, single and multi-plant operations. Scalable from five to 5,000 users, Monarch includes an array of intelligent wizard-based processes with a high degree of functionality and flexibility – capabilities necessary for the efficient management of every work type from the most basic jobs to the most complex projects.
As a unified solution, Monarch has four main modules:
- Monarch Executive.
- Scheduling with PrintFlow® Optimization.
- Advanced Planner.
- EFI Auto-Count® Direct Machine Interface.
Monarch includes award-winning capabilities of EFI Hagen™, Prograph®, PrintFlow, and Auto-Count, advanced professional print software incorporated into a single, streamlined toolset backed by world-class implementation, training, and support and development teams.
Feature Highlights
- Opens doors to new process and profit potential. By addressing every aspect of management and workflow control, the solution leverages resources more efficiently, maximizes businesses profit potential, and creates new revenue opportunities with every job.
- Achieves seamless job workflow and version management. The solution streamlines and standardizes planning efforts that impact jobs by providing interdependent process planning capabilities, improving overall production planning and performance.
- Helps businesses operate more effectively. The solution collects, organizes and reports valuable information with a flexible data structure and intelligence level unavailable in other solutions.
- Dynamic Scheduling and Optimization. Monarch leverages the power and intelligence of PrintFlow to build a logical, efficient plan based on real-time production and delivery priorities that reduce make ready time, waste and overall production time. The end result is the electronic delivery of a real-time run list – that represents the most up-to-date and cost effective schedule – to each work center.
- Automates and improves count accuracy. Monarch takes the guesswork out of production counts by automating the process -- dramatically decreasing materials spoiled, overruns and underruns.
- Offers True Computer Integrated Manufacturing. Flexible Monarch provides integration among its powerful management, planning, scheduling and direct machine interface tools via JDF-enabled processes and tools to provide a greater return on investment as companies grow.
