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Aside from enthusiasm for the Profile's role in addressing production issues, a whopping 86 percent of diemakers identify automated rule processors as the technology with most significant overall benefit for diemaking/diecutting in the packaging segment. Giuseppe Cumbelic, president of SRD Steel Rule Dies, first installed an automated rule processor nearly six years ago, and now employs eight processors to serve SRD's folding carton customer base. With eight machines, each can complete a different element of one die simultaneously. "This equipment optimizes the line," he states. "It organizes you better so you can move faster." In addition to savings in turnaround time and materials, Cumbelic says the consistency and quality of automated rule processors can eliminate worries about dedicating a master diemaker to a complex job, and transform employee training processes.