32 | Geostickpandemic, which made our suppliers very happy,’ Cees “We planned this facility to make it says, laughing.the most effcient for an operator In total, Geostick has 10 HP Indigo presses, including an HP 20000 for labels, shrink and fexible packaging applications, and to do their job”a new HP Indigo 200K installed in October. The HP technology is complemented by a Bobst Digital Master 340 inkjet machine. The digital facility processes 100 to 200 jobs per day, and the company does about 21M USD of business each year on its digital assets. Geostick relies on AI tools from Cerm to plan the most effcient production route for the high volume of job tickets, and Hybrid Software to automate its prepress processes. Automation is equally as important on the conventional and digital sides of the business. For fexographic production, Geostick relies on technology from Nilpeter and MPS for turning over 39M USD annually at its two conventional production facilities.In total, the company has 14 printing lines, all running on a ‘single pass’ philosophy, meaning there is one operator per line that ‘operates everything into a box,’ Cees says. ‘There are no second passes.’This is implemented with the help of workfow and automation technology from Cerm and Hybrid Software and automated color matching from GMG. RobotsAs the company prepared to install its new digital technology, Tom started thinking about the way the building and its assets were laid out. He was looking for ways to get jobs off the fnishing equipment and to the warehouse while minimizing the time operators spent away from their production equipment. Tom Schouten with the company’s self-driving robotThe company ended up choosing an automated guided vehicle More time forthe importantthingsTubeScan print inspection with Dynamic Job Changewatch the videoMany new automation features www.bst.elexis.grouplead to zero downtime. Contact us!labelsandlabeling.com