Newspaper Industry

INTEG has a long history in the newspaper industry with a number of key personnel having over 20 years experience. INTEG provides a range of products and services for the newspaper industry to help them monitor and control their operations in a cost effective manner.  Our goal is to help newspaper companies effectively link the enterprise with the plant floor to get their newspapers printed and out the door in the least amount of time possible.

Bundle Distribution Control System

BDCS Customers New York Post The Washington Post New York Times Philadelphia Newspapers Dallas Morning News

Our flagship product for the newspaper industry is the Bundle Distribution and Control System (BDCS).  It is a multi-tiered system that integrates people (users/managers) and data (manifest demands), with the production process to increase productivity and reduce costs.  The system has been installed at a variety of newspaper facilities around the USA helping them to effectively manage their daily bundles of newspapers moving through the mailroom.  By receiving the daily manifest from the enterprise system, the BDCS can schedule and track the delivery of bundles to trucks, palletizers and hand assemble stations.  The operator and system can adjust the delivery schedules to various stations in the mailroom for changes in demand, priorities and real-time issues like late breaking news or drivers running behind schedule.

INTEG’s BDCS provides Operators, Managers, and Technicians with the information necessary to control, maintain, analyze and improve production.

Performance Monitoring

Utilizing a combination of INTEG’s JNIOR product, with web-based user interface screens, and a centralized PC-based data reporting system, INTEG’s Performance Monitoring system is easily adaptable for the newspaper industry to keep track of the newspapers being printed and the overall plant’s performance.  The JNIOR has 8 digital inputs that also serve as counters (up to 2,000 counts per second) that can be distributed around the pressroom and mailroom to input various count signals.  The counters can include press copies, good copies, waste copies, stacker counts, etc.  The Performance Monitoring system can then tally in real-time the rate of production, good copies, waste and yield.  This information can be viewed, reported and sent to enterprise systems for accurate production tracking.

The Performance Monitoring system promotes cost savings in the production process by minimizing waste and increasing efficiency.  Waste savings are realized by eliminating overproduction and by categorizing waste to expose problem areas. 

Ink Tank Level Monitoring

Utilizing a series of JNIOR’s, INTEG has developed and implemented an Ink Room Tank Level Monitoring system that gives the user the benefits of real-time, remote monitoring & control of their ink supplies.  The system comes complete with the JNIOR for connecting to existing tank load cells (either via an analog signal or serial connection) and pre-configured software to monitor the scales and other sensors.  The data can be accessed via user-friendly, web-based screens.

The system brings cost effective connectivity to your ink room for remote monitoring or manual control of the process or equipment while providing you with real-time information.

Networking and Integrating Plant Equipment

The JNIOR Uses a Variety of Communication Protocols: Ethernet TCP/IP Modbus OPC Server Windows DLL Data Packets RS232/RS422/RS485

Newspaper printing facilities have a variety of equipment installed around the plant.  This leads to both new and legacy equipment with various types of automation systems.  In today’s world, companies need to know the status of all their equipment and production process in real-time.

In order to bridge the gap between the plant floor and enterprise systems and to include islands of isolated equipment, the INTEG JNIOR can help newspaper companies bring key data to the network, seamlessly and cost-effectively.  Digital, analog and serial signals can be connected to the Ethernet network and integrated with standard HMI packages, database packages, etc. operating in pulpits and computer centers.