China's printing industry has seen major changes in digital printing technology over the past few years. Due to the development of digital printing technology, the printing industry is expected to achieve high efficiency and high quality printing production.

Approach to Digital Transformation in Printing

As the industry enters the era of inventory, learning how to find the balance of cost reduction and efficiency of printing companies, by opening up the upstream and downstream industry chain to improve efficiency and realize the transformation, is the subject in front of the printing industry. Through digital transformation, costs can be controlled from various aspects such as raw materials, printing process, labor, machinery consumption, etc. In order to ensure the smooth progress and efficient development of digital transformation, it is also necessary to realize the digitalization of management and equipment. Therefore, the main elements of the digital transformation of printing have the following aspects:

1. Digitization of printing equipment
2. Digitalization of printing process
3. Digitalization of printing management
4. Digital development and management of printing content

Mode Innovation in Typical Enterprises Shaping the New Ecology of the Industry

With the development of the Internet, the printing industry has seen the emergence of a number of enterprises with good internal management, high digital technology and the ability to provide Internet services. Typical printing enterprises in Shenzhen like Artron, Kinker, Boxuni, ininin.com, FeiYin, Xiaoeyin, etc., have become the representative enterprises of China's Internet printing. It occupies an important position in the trillion-dollar market system. This represents a technological advancement as well as an improvement in management. Through the management to provide customers with high-quality services, especially they through the combination of the Internet's digital and traditional technology to achieve model innovation, so that the traditional offline printing and the Internet's services combined to achieve a breakthrough innovation to simplify the industry, thus shaping the new ecology of the industry.

Future Development Trends – Choosing the Path for Printing + Internet Mode

01 Platform-based Design

Printing companies integrate supply and demand and design resources through the platform, and carry out integrated, lightweight, collaborative and agile design by crowdsourcing and collaborative design, etc. Through the order management system, orders are clustered and then distributed to each production end.

02 Intelligent Manufacturing

Intelligent manufacturing, namely, to achieve intelligent decision-making and dynamic optimization from single machine to production line, workshop and even the whole factory, to enhance the whole process of production efficiency, improve quality and reduce costs. Building of printing intelligent factory is a complex system project based on advanced printing process and lean production management, with hardware and software construction as important elements. Subject being transformed here is the printing and packaging enterprises, and software and equipment manufacturers need to provide support from hardware to systems to help enterprises achieve intelligent upgrading.

03 Customization

With the changes in the habits of consumer groups, diversification, personalization and customization are still the hot spots of consumption. Companies obtain personalized user needs based on the Internet, and achieve low-cost mass customization through the flexible organization of design, manufacturing resources and production processes. This is a model performance mainly for individual user platforms, initially dominated by printing Internet platforms. In recent years, the industry has seen more small batch and customized services for enterprises and brands, with more and more scaled orders and higher repurchase frequency, which also creates more substantial profits. In addition, the accelerated development of digital printing has contributed to the rapid growth of the personalization market. In view of the development trend, it is foreseeable that more printing and packaging companies will cut into this track in the future.

04 Service-oriented Extensions

The platform uses big data technology to extend from the manufacture side to the user side, using the product as the service carrier and the data as the medium, continuously exploring user needs in the process of using the product. Both manufacturers and printing companies continue to explore and practice service-oriented extension.

05 Digital Management

The main body of digital management is the printing and packaging enterprises, depending on the mining and use of data generated in the production and operation, to present, optimize and manage their own business through digital means, and to provide guidance for the company's strategic decision-making, operation and management, and market services.
More and more printing companies are actively seeking digital transformation, around the new needs of business and process digitization, to promote production and management changes, some companies through the introduction of ERP, MES, WMS, APS and other management systems, to achieve closed-loop management of production, and greatly enhance the digitalization of the production process, transparency, and the realization of real-time connection of the production data flow.

Under the system of industrial Internet, printing Internet platform, printing enterprises have made some attempts on the above modes. It is necessary to emphasize in particular that the advancement of these modes is evolving with the development of industrial Internet, and the modes are intertwined to advance each other, rather than either one or the other!

In the foreseeable future, the combination of the printing industry and the Internet will be more close and in-depth. On the one hand, with its innate Internet gene, the printing Internet platform will actively penetrate into the industry, accelerate the exploration and iteration of the service side of the business system, and provide more technical support for the flexible manufacturing of printing factories; on the other hand, the printing companies and suppliers of equipment and software in the supply chain will give full play to their technological advantages, and solidly push forward the intelligentization of production and operation, and take the initiative to connect to the Internet to innovate a new model and achieve the intelligent upgrading of "manufacturing". This also requires platforms, printing companies, equipment manufacturers and other industry-wide efforts to continue to work together and explore and practice.

Source: www.cgan.net