The Primac® Shop Floor Information System (SFIS) brings state of the art technology to the graphic arts plant floor. SFIS automates the collection of labor time, material usage, and job status information from all areas of the plant - from pre-press to shipping. Data is more accurate and errors are caught at the source.

Using networked PC's with touch screen technology running in a client-server environment, SFIS not only provides a faster and easier way for plant personnel to enter labor and material transactions, now adds the ability to bring more information back to the plant floor. This includes review of time sheets, real-time job review, and with direct access to all other functions in Primac® , plant staff and supervisors can see schedule status, inventory, job tracking and any other Primac® functions their security level will allow.

All data is validated as entered, then immediately forwarded to the host Primac® server, where it flows through the fully integrated relational database to job costing, WIP, inventory, and payroll. It also feeds real-time views in job tracking and scheduling. Touch-screens are faster and easier to use for employees, even for those employees who sometimes have struggled with barcode wands. However, barcode scanners can still be used to scan bar coded items, such as paper roll numbers, job numbers, etc.