Business processes and production workflows cannot be stagnant and need to evolve as the markets and technologies evolve. Understanding the need and creating an infrastructure that supports that is key. The good news is that the options are improving.
Before the pandemic, actually way before the pandemic in 2013, I wrote the first in a series of articles on print and packaging service provider workflows. These are articles were developed to provide a model for software and hardware developers to build forward-thinking process systems. They were also designed to raise the awareness of print and packaging service providers to the importance of a future proof infrastructure.