Beer coaster printing company Katz GmbH & Co. based in Weisenbach, Germany, has replaced its production software with EFI Monarch.
It required EFI Monarch to integrate with SAP software, which handles finance, accounting and materials management. The newest Monarch capabilities have helped improve productivity and reduce waste.
Katz Weisenbach, a member of the Katz Group, which includes two other beer coaster printing companies in the US, manufactures more than three billion beer mats each year. The August Koehler paper mill in Oberkirch, Germany, acquired the group in 2009 and today it consists of three paper mills.
Both printing companies in the US worked closely with EFI Monarch, as well as advanced functions such as the electronic planning board (PrintFlow). Both also worked closely with the Auto-Count system that provides automatic, real-time paper consumption and waste monitoring as well as production monitoring of key manufacturing lines. The American management team vehemently opposed the idea of losing these valuable functions. Experts in Weisenbach and Oberkirch were also in favour of adopting these capabilities.
‘We turned to EFI and now with Monarch I can see the production data of our printing machines at all times. I see which jobs have already been completed and the status of all current orders,’ said production manager, Dieter Wieland.
