Industrial automation can help in terms of improving overall output by optimizing processes and reducing downtime, or at the individual level by augmenting workers with additional tools and decision making to improve their productivity. RGMTSI knows the challenges its customers face and can set them on the right path for their industrial automation. Automation focuses on reducing labor costs, or even eliminating them entirely. Automation projects often remove manual input mechanisms and replace them with fully automated processes, helping orders fly through the factory and removing bottlenecks. These types of projects tend to be personalized and tailored to an individual site and normally focus on a specific type of product (web-to-print or regular and repetitive products). Most wasted time is usually at the ‘front’ of the workflow – order entry, artwork proofing and invoicing, so automation projects tend to focus on this area. They lend themselves perfectly to products of a similar type where the artwork and method of input is consistent and controlled. In short, automation projects aim to create a process where data is entered in once and nobody needs to touch it again. Integration is the handing-off of data from one piece of software to another. In some cases, this may mean merging different departments entirely and creating a larger customer facing team. In short, integration projects aim to take data and move it downstream to the next piece of software, where an operator adds value to it, and then once more moves it downstream to the next piece of software.