Company-wide Document and Information

PLOSSYS® Output Engine – The heart of output management

PLOSSYS 4

PLOSSYS 4 forms the basis of our output management. All market requirements of the last decades went into this engine, starting with PDM and PLM integrations up to the certified SAP interface. As a special feature, CAD drawings (documents in large format) can also be provided with added information. Thus, the focus lies in the adaptability to special customer and project requirements.

PLOSSYS® Output Engine

With PLOSSYS® Output Engine you use the proven features of the PLOSSYS® Output series, and at the same time the latest software technology – e.g. for operation in the cloud or as a hybrid solution in your data center. PLOSSYS® Output Engine was developed in a cloud-native approach and relies on operating system-independent technology. This includes micro-services, Docker containers and Kubernetes clusters. Thus, our new engine is not only future-proof, but can also be flexibly adapted to your requirements.

Advantages of the Output Management Engine

Only one system for company-wide and cross-location document and information distribution from all applications
High-performance data stream processing of less than 1 second per document
Cloud-native base for future development for seamless integration in any cloud instance or as a hybrid instance in your data center
Fail-safe spooling
Central management, control and monitoring of your output processes
You choose the output channel you want for your documents: Analog (printer, plotter, MFP, label printer...) or digital (e-mail, portal, mobile devices, production terminal...) - vendor-independent and intuitive
Output processes are defined and standardized throughout the company only once with us (uniform print image, form definition, corporate identity...) and make you independent of printer hardware
Reduced costs through intelligent processes and savings on print servers

The Plus of Extras

PLOSSYS Provides You with Numerous Modules to Optimize Your Output Processes

Print Client
The SEAL Print Client (“Web-to-Print Software”) is a web-based job submission tool that allows your users to send print jobs of any kind to the output management from their workstation or on the road.

You can use documents from various storage locations (such as desktop, file server, SAP repository) and systems (CAD, PLM, PDM, ECM) without having to roll out additional software. Output is possible for many directly printable graphic formats such as PDF, TIFF or HPGL. However, with additional options, office or drawing formats can also be converted on the fly for output and commissioned for printing.

Printer Management

With SEAL Systems printer management (easyPRIMA), all connected output systems are maintained in a central database.

The use of easyPRIMA reduces the average time required by administrators to set up, change or delete an output device in any number of systems from 4-8 hours to 5-15 minutes per device.

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Administration + Monitoring

Monitoring and transparency of your company-wide document and information distribution resembles a black hole? Controlling output devices and their operating states is cumbersome and time-consuming? You want a central application with which all jobs and devices can be monitored and controlled?

SEAL Systems enables administrators to clearly display and monitor all output jobs, devices and their operating states in only one cockpit.

Security + High Availability

Do you have sensitive data and documents that are not sufficiently secured for transmission? Do you expect permanent high availability and reliability from your output processes?

Integrated encryption and compression mechanisms in the output management system protect your data from unlawful access from outside, but also within your company network.

With the intelligent multi-server architecture of SEAL Systems, we provide you with optimal load distribution and fail-safety as well as maximum print throughput.

Secure & PickUp Printing

Secure + PickUp Printing is an output method that does not immediately print the documents on the selected printer. Instead, they are held back until the user identifies themselves at the printer and authorizes the output.

In this way, you reduce your printing costs because only what your employees actually need and pick up is printed. Above all, you also benefit from increased security in the printing process – confidential documents are not accidentally left unattended in the printer, and transmission from the client to the printer is completely encrypted.

Integrated Conversion

Our PLOSSYS® Output Engine accepts the generic data from SAP or Windows and the documents from the DMS and PLM solutions or from the mobile clients, generates PDF or PDF/A if electronic distribution is required or generates the correct printer code if paper is needed.

Of course, one can have the point of view that the channel-specific preparation of the data cannot be the task of the “switchboard”, but that the data must already come appropriately prepared from the applications. However, this is precisely what gives rise to the complexity and error-proneness in the output processes, which can be reduced significantly by our approach.

Forms Management

We offer you all form services from a single source, from form consulting, development and design to company-wide distribution. Together with our partners MINDFORMS and Cartago Software, we create targeted and individual document processes for your company.

Rule-based Job Distribution

With our rule manager RUMAN, your rules are mapped without the need for a developer every time a rule is adapted. On the contrary! Users and system administrators can very easily create and change the rules themselves.

You want to determine to which printer you output, whether you print duplex or simplex, color or black and white? Already you have assigned rules for printing. Wait a minute, these are just output parameters that are set, right? That’s right, not much else happens in rule-based printing. Typically, these parameters are defined directly by the user when the printing process is triggered.

But what if you are dealing with applications (SAP, host printing, in-house developed solutions) that do not offer such a dialog? Or if you as a company want to override settings of your users to save money (e.g. duplex printing for all) or to increase security? Here our rule-based job distribution supports you!

Accounting + Controlling

Who printed what, when, where, from which application, and how? The PLOSSYS® Output Engine from SEAL Systems logs all important information about a printing process.

When did a job arrive in the system? Where did it come from? Who triggered the output? How was it processed in the Output Management System? How long did it take? When was the job printed? With which output parameters?

All this information can be exported to accounting files. Of course, you decide which information is important to you. Only this information will then be logged. The information is provided in a CSV file, which makes it very easy to prepare and display using EXCEL or business analytics applications. This way you know exactly where, when and how much is printed and can optimize your printer fleet (distribute the right printers to the right places). In this way, you contribute to sustainability in your company, because processes are adjusted based on the right information.

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