Smart Automation for Shorter Makeready

KENNESAW, Ga.—Heidelberg’s XL VLF Series presses have been designed and built to provide a leap forward for the VLF market in many ways. Market studies conducted during the development of Heidelberg’s XL VLF press platform, for example, revealed a huge opportunity to dramatically shorten makeready times. Customer performance data on Heidelberg’s Speedmaster XL 145 and VLF 162 VLF presses subsequently showed that automation and synchronization of key press functions, together with elimination of makeready steps, results in the systematic reduction of waste, time and material associated with set up and changeover on new and repeat jobs. Customers the world over have attested to the validity of Heidelberg’s claims in this regard.