Friday, September 22, 2006
Humanless Workflow Technology
Saepio Technologies just sent out a press release that promises to demonstrate nearly humanless workflow technology at GRAPH EXPO (emphasis theirs):
Saepio Technologies, the industry leading provider of agile, web-based tools for managing, distributing and customizing marketing materials, will showcase a revolutionary application that integrates its Agilis Marketing Suite with Objective Advantage’s OASymbio workflow automation technology. With this technology, literally no one touches the job!
According to the email that lured me to open the attached press release:
With this application, literally no one touches the job! This "point, click and print" technology has the potential to dramatically change the printing landscape.
Wow, dramatically change the printing landscape. I guess that means print shops can finally be staffed by only one person and a dog (were the role of the person is to feed the dog; the role of the dog is to keep the person from touching the machinery...).
To find out if this was the staffing condition Saepio Technologies had envisioned, I contacted Saepio's PR firm and asked:
Does the system come with a guard dog to keep the operator from touching the system?
I was surprised to find out from their PR firm:
That's an optional add on!
So this lead me to wonder, Can I use my current guard dog or will I need to upgrade? Like the 70-80% percent of legacy printing equipment in the industry, Lola can't be upgraded to be fully JDF-enabled. It was hard enough to install the sit, lay, and stay commands.
Lola on her way to work.
It will be interesting to see how well this system holds up to its hype.
Of course, the whole point of this post was to provide an excuse to post a picture of my dog.
Posted in: Automation
2 Comments
This is the inevitable result of the trend toward making the creator responsible for the entire process. It is a good thing, but it places a lot of responsibility on the creator [that most are not educated to handle, yet].
Comment by David Bergsland - Monday, September 25, 2006 at 11:43 AM
Nice picture, where have I seen that before???
Comment by Charlie - Monday, October 2, 2006 at 05:02 PM