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Pitney Bowes Epic Inserting System Celebrates Two-Years of Innovation and Client Success at Hunkeler Innovationdays 2017
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The Pitney Bowes Epic Inserting System is engineered to drive a reduction in total cost of ownership for high-volume mailers. US-based Financial Statement Services and
In just two years, Epic has become the company’s flagship production
mail solution, helping
With up to 50 percent fewer outsorts and less reconciliation time compared to other high-speed inserting solutions, clients leverage Epic’s agility to move swiftly and easily from job to job and from letters to flats in a single workcell. For clients with multiple, varied jobs, this provides flexibility and ease of use. Through its enhanced, fully automated setup, Epic can change between formats in less time than it takes to load envelopes. Engineered to drive a reduction in total cost of ownership, the technology delivers a higher yield per operator for both simple and complex jobs with significantly reduced, repeatable make-ready times.
These benefits have led production mail and marketing services
organizations like US-based
“The Epic Inserting System is a key driver of our plans for growth,”
said
Client-led innovation and The Epic Changeover Challenge
“We’re pleased with the results Epic is delivering for our clients,”
said
At Hunkeler Innovationdays 2017,
To demonstrate Epic’s ease-of-use, Hunkeler attendees are encouraged to take “The Epic Changeover Challenge” and experience first-hand how intuitively, quickly and easily anyone can convert set-ups from letters to flats and process a short-run job.
Other product innovations since Epic’s 2015 launch include:
- Engine Scanning
- Merging Input
- DM Infinity
- Resettable Meter
- Gapping Folder
- Output Area Scan
- Insert Batch Feeding
- Feeder to Feeder Match
- PPM & 14K Flats PPM
- Back Space/White Paper Removal
- Output Linescan
-
Manual Handfeed Station - High Speed Batch Feeding
- Privacy Guard
- Introduction of Epic Select
Leveraging the power of the Industrial Internet
Also new to Epic is the availability of the
Pitney Bowes Clarity Solutions Suite for the Industrial Internet.
Clarity is a SaaS-based offering hosted on GE’s Predix platform that
collates, integrates and organizes data collected from sensors on
production mail machines.
From the performance of a specific motor on a single machine to the productivity benchmarks of leading print and mail operations around the world, Clarity is designed to provide the client with a view of their operations and the overall industry on a micro- and global-level that was never before visible. The insights derived from Clarity help clients plan and manage production downtime, resource allocation, investment, productivity, service levels, capacity management, job scheduling and forecasting.
“With Epic and Clarity, what we’re really delivering is productivity,” said Dies. “Our industry is measured in tenths of pennies and fractions of seconds. Our clients are being tasked with meeting extremely challenging SLAs. Every advantage we can give them in terms of keeping their machines up and running and managing workflows as strategically and efficiently as possible can help their bottom lines. That’s the value we offer with these solutions.”
Case Study: Epic improves productivity for financial statements provider FSSI
Specializing in the printing and mailing of financial statements, healthcare documents and other sensitive information, FSSI is a business subject to work-level variations. During its busiest times, the company mails up to 15 million documents each month.
FSSI needed to improve mailing speed and efficiency to accommodate the demands of a growing clientele. Many of these clients are served through same-day service level agreements requiring that documents be printed, inserted and entered into the mail stream the same day the print file is received by FSSI.
The company also wanted to reduce downtime. “One of our requirements was
to significantly reduce set-up and reconciliation times between
applications,” said
Capable of handling up to 270,000 pieces of mail and more than 70 changeovers per day, the Epic Inserting System helped FSSI process items much more quickly while also reducing the downtime that occurs between different types of job runs. It accomplishes this by combining letter and flat insertion capabilities in a single machine. Automation capabilities allow mailers to quickly switch between flat and letter jobs, helping to reduce downtime and improve capacity planning. The Epic inserter’s modular nature also allows organizations to add further inserting capabilities as work volumes demand.
The speed and automation of the Epic inserter has helped FSSI dramatically reduce changeover time between jobs while automating smaller jobs that would have previously had to have been processed manually. This has helped FSSI meet stringent SLAs and target new jobs.
As Perez explained, "If we're running an inserter that's processing letters then we have to set the machine up in a flats configuration and a significant volume is needed to make it worth the changeover time. For a smaller job, it would take more time for changeover than to actually insert the job. But if we can changeover in six minutes, it makes sense to do it. With Epic, we can now automate smaller flats jobs with the confidence that we can switch back to high speed inserting quickly."
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Pitney Bowes Inc.
Brett Cody, 203-351-6079
Brett.Cody@pb.com