Clarity from Pitney Bowes
Pitney Bowes has announced that its new Clarity solutions suite will “bring the power of the Industrial Internet to the production mail industry”. Clarity is the first commercially available solution generated by Pitney Bowes’ collaboration with GESaaS-based offering “leverages the physical and digital technologies of the Industrial Internet to integrate and organise data collected from sensors on production mail machines to support real-time insight, predictive analytics and prescriptive maintenance”.
Jason Dies, president, Pitney Bowes Document Messaging Technologies, commented: “In its simplest form, production mail is about getting the right information, in the right envelope, to the right customer at precisely the right time, millions of times each day. It is an industry measured in tenths-of-pennies and fractions-of-seconds.
“Clarity provides our clients with a view of their operations and our industry on a micro and global level that was never before visible – from the performance of a specific motor on a single machine, to the productivity benchmarks of leading print and mail operations around the world.
“The insights derived from Clarity allow us to quickly identify strengths and weaknesses in our clients’ print and mail operations and recommend solutions to improve both productivity and capability.”
The Clarity suite includes three offerings:
- Clarity Advisor offers an intelligent view into equipment performance to help drive machine efficiency. It proactively monitors trends and patterns in order to diagnose and resolve many issues before they occur.
- Clarity Optimizer leverages actionable insights and industry benchmarks to identify an optimal combination of jobs, machines and operators to help clients improve equipment performance, operational productivity and capacity.
- Clarity Scheduler provides real-time adaptive scheduling to help clients meet critical service-level agreements and drive productivity. It learns and becomes more intelligent over time, linking a range of variables, including available operators and equipment, jobs in production and planned downtime into one dynamic schedule.
Clarity will be available on Pitney Bowes production mail inserting solutions in North America in March, 2016, in Europe in the third quarter (Q2) and globally by 2017.
