Case Study: a large folding carton converter reduces costs and saves press time with Esko Phoenix

How a Large Folding Carton Converter Reduced Costs with Phoenix

a large folding carton converter in the beauty, pharmaceutical, and cosmetic packaging sectors faced challenges to its profitability due to outdated technology and a reliance on manual labor. The company's time-consuming manual layout process was inefficient for managing its high volume of short-run packaging jobs, hindering its ability to maintain margins. To address this, the converter turned to Esko for a solution using its Phoenix software.

Esko’s Phoenix software implemented an AI algorithm to automate and optimize the planning and imposition process. This solution dramatically reduced job planning time from 24 hours to just 2 hours per job and cut layout creation from 1 hour to 20 minutes. The increased efficiency boosted the average number of items per sheet, resulting in monthly savings of $70,000 and freeing up 337 hours of press capacity.