The ProPack Packaging Forum will take place from 9.00am to 3.00pm at Shangri-La Sydney during the day on Friday 25 October, alongside the 2024 FESPA Australia Conference and prior to the 2024 ProPrint Awards later that evening.
Tickets for the Packaging Forum will be closing soon – to secure your ticket to the event, please click on this link: https://events.humanitix.com/propack-packaging-forum/tickets. For more information about the Packaging Forum contact James Wells on 0414 995 104 or email: james@intermedia.com.au.
Belgian-based software specialist, Pascal Wybo, with 25 years of industry experience, will be presenting at the inaugural ProPack Packaging Forum in Sydney on Friday 25 October.
Wybo has over 25 years of technical experience in labels and packaging, and is one of the key product managers for the PACKZ and CloudFlow platforms at Hybrid Software.
Hybrid Software is a software developer of products and technology for both print providers and OEMs to power digital and conventional print production.
“I help define the strategy, roadmap, and feature definitions for PACKZ and CLOUDFLOW at HYBRID Software,” Wybo said.
“More than ever, the success of the label and packaging printing industry relies on processing a larger volume of smaller orders, with the same number of employees and equipment, in a globalised operation.
“I take pride in understanding my clients’ needs in their complex and ever-evolving working practices. I continue to provide them with solutions to ensure their businesses thrive and remain at the cutting edge.”
Hybrid Software launched the MyPACKZ cloud-based software at drupa – complementing the existing MyCLOUDFLOW launched last year.
At drupa, Hybrid Software completed over 1,200 demonstrations on its stand.
MyPACKZ is a cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) based pre-press application for any printing process, digital or conventional, derived from Hybrid Software’s very successful PACKZ software. PACKZ, with more than 5,000 copies sold, provides a full set of packaging prepress tools from preflight to step & repeat and trapping.
MyPACKZ offers the same functionality in a hosted SaaS business model for increased production efficiency, quality improvements and reduced error rates. It’s the ideal editing solution for MyCLOUDFLOW customers, since it allows their files to remain in the cloud at all times, even when editing is required.
CLOUDFLOW is Hybrid’s popular enterprise production workflow. The highly configurable enterprise production workflow system provides fast and effective automation of prepress tasks for more than 1,000 customers worldwide.
Demonstrated at drupa was MyCLOUDFLOW, a 100 per cent cloud-based SaaS solution running in a dedicated Amazon Web Services (AWS) cluster. The No-IT solution offers quick access to CLOUDFLOW through a private and secure environment for each customer with strong data protection and immutable backups.
Like any SaaS solution, there is no hardware purchase, and easy scalability without requiring local IT support. The installed base of MyCLOUDFLOW users has grown steadily as print providers accepted the power of SaaS and the advantages it can bring to their businesses.
“We are a unified Hybrid Software built from six distinct operating companies with one common mission – we are the heartbeat of industrial printing and packaging,” said Hybrid Software executive chairman, Guido Van der Schueren.
“It communicates our DNA to our customers and the industry; one of long-term mutual partnerships and a commitment to expert local support. We will continue to deliver leadership in software and electronics for industrial printing and packaging, driven by the intelligence and passion of our people, speaking the language of our customers, and sharing their heartbeat.”
Hybrid Software also recently announced a number of projects with key cooperating partners. They include:
• Fujifilm: A workflow and SmartDFE front end for the new FP790 flexible packaging press
• AB Graphic International: Label finishing automation with FleyeVision integration
• Weigang: Printhead electronics and digital front end for its new high-end label press
• Koenig & Bauer AG: PrintFusion software for fast press setup
“Hybrid Software is the only company that can drive any digital printing press with its own technology developed 100 per cent in-house. More than 100 Hybrid Software engineers have worked together to build the broadest product line in the industry. The result is a full stack solution for digital printing,” said Hybrid Software CEO, Mike Rottenborn.
“This represents all of the tasks required to manufacture print, from file pre-flighting and ink estimation, to prepress workflow and layout, to all facets of colour management, RIPping files to the digital printer, overseeing inkjet printhead performance, to analysing and reporting to networked MIS/ERP solutions. Yet, just as important as the technology is that we care, on a very local level, about the successes of all of our customers.”
The inaugural ProPack Packaging Forum would not be possible without the support from its sponsors:
Platinum Sponsor – Durst Oceania
Gold Sponsor – Cyber
Gold Sponsor – Miraclon
Bronze Sponsor – Hybrid Software
Bronze Sponsor – Kissel & Wolf
Bronze Sponsor – Koenig & Bauer
