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Melville, NY, 27 September 2018 – SpencerMetrics, provider of the award winning CONNECT multi-vendor automated data collection and real-time production analytics solution, is excited to announce incorporation of legacy equipment via AUTOMATER – recognized as a RED HOT Technology at Print 18. The current world of Smart Factory/Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has many demands. Demand for Lean manufacturing and workflow optimization in the printing industry is at an all-time high. Modern printing and finishing equipment lend themselves to such automation. However, legacy equipment – devices that cannot be “connected” – soak up significant investments that go untracked. CONNECT’s AUTOMATER will initiate a major breakthrough in automatic data collection. Enabling analytics from almost any non-digital legacy

Birmingham, AL – 23 March 2018 – Print Promotions Group, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Encompass Health Corporation (NYSE: EHC). Serving as its in-plant provider of print and promotional products and services. SpencerMetrics LLC provides modern print production solutions that improve operational insight and enable cost reductions while maintaining high quality. Print Promotions Group (PPG) has added SpencerMetrics CONNECT to enhance its multi-vendor pressroom operations. PPG’s digital print benchmark production fleet includes various Xerox as well as HP Indigo presses. PPG had two issues they were initially looking to improve. First, they wanted to get a better understanding of their true press utilization. Whether they have too much or not enough of various equipment and to refine their

Melville, NY, 3 January 2018 – SpencerMetrics LLC is pleased to announce the appointment of Vishal Sahay as Vice President of Product Management, and Yutak Kwok as Director of Information Technology, effective immediately. SpencerMetrics CONNECT press management systems combines real-time machine data with pressroom knowledge to reduce downtime. This equates to more usable prints in each shift and reduced costs. A fourteen-year veteran of Spencer Associates Group, Vishal has spearheaded growth of SpencerMetrics Productivity Intelligence software since its inception. This promotion recognizes his exceptional leadership in product management of CONNECT systems – working to build increasing value into the core while continuing to advise customer needs and the user key SpencerLab projects. “While leading the development team, Vishal expertly balances

Melville, NY, 10 August 2017 – SpencerMetrics LLC is extremely pleased to announce that version 6 of CONNECT, the leading pressroom management system, has been chosen as a MUST SEE ‘EMS award winner. CONNECT by SpencerMetrics version 6 was chosen by the MUST SEE ‘EMS Selection Committee. Consisting of an anonymous group of industry experts that evaluate and rate each entry from the printing industry’s top vendors. As a top vote getter CONNECT by SpencerMetrics version 6 earns recognition as a “must see” product in the Management Systems category. SpencerMetrics will be demonstrating this new version of CONNECT at Booth #133 in the Design and Workflow area of PRINT 17 from September 10-14 in Chicago. A live display of production

Melville, NY, 6 June 2017 – SpencerMetrics LLC, creator of the most powerful shop-floor data collection system, SpencerMetrics CONNECT, is pleased to announce that they will be in Europe as a Ruby Partner for the Dscoop EMEA 6 Conference in Lyon, France June 7-9, 2017. Dscoop EMEA 6 is one of the largest gatherings of technology users in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The theme of this year’s event is “A Taste of Innovation”. It aims to provide a unique solution and application showcase that can help industry leaders discover the best solution partners in the world. The event will offer valuable workshops and educational sessions that strive to help businesses grow and succeed in a constantly evolving industry.

Melville, NY, 2 March 2017 – SpencerMetrics LLC, the leading provider of real-time, multi-vendor Press Management systems, has unveiled an additional enhancement to the SpencerMetrics CONNECT system. The rules-based notifications module automates process alerts and enables quick and effective response to incidents threatening the continuity and productivity of the user’s print environment. SpencerMetrics will be demonstrating the connect system at the Dscoop (Digital Solutions Cooperative) event in Phoenix, Arizona, March 1-4, 2017. Most organizations determine there is a problem or a situation needing resolution by manual tasks. These tasks include manually running reports, viewing computer dashboards, walking the production floor, or even – waiting until month-end to receive a report. These largely manual tasks open the door for errors –

Melville, NY, 1 March 2017 – SpencerMetrics LLC, the leading provider of real-time, multi-vendor Press Management systems, has announced a goal-setting update to the SpencerMetrics CONNECT system. Users now have the ability to set production targets and track actual print volume against those targets. A Key Performance Indicator in the planning and success of any business, production goals have a direct impact on business profitability and competitiveness. Production goals are one of the toughest business systems to get just right. SpencerMetrics, with the free addition of the CONNECT Production Target module, has simplified the setting of benchmark goals and monitoring production progress. Managers can now easily set a production goal for each of their connected devices and the system will

Melville, NY, 28 February 2017 – SpencerMetrics LLC announced its recent donation of the SpencerMetrics CONNECT system to Arizona State University (ASU) Print and Imaging Lab. This is the fourth year of SpencerMetrics supporting ASU with productivity software donations. With the intent to educate students on the impact of operational efficiency. Also supporting the ASU in-plant print provider by offering print lab management with an analysis tool to increase their asset utilization and overall efficiency. SpencerMetrics’ most recent donations of its automated CONNECT system are running on ASU’s Xerox iGen 4 and HP Indigo 5500 digital presses. With its unique multi-vendor capabilities, CONNECT allows quantifiable operational metric analyses. Allowing analyses across multiple press platforms, providing comparisons of shifts, technologies, operators,

Melville, NY, 20 February 2017- SpencerMetrics LLC, an industry leader in press efficiency management, has released an update to the SpencerMetrics CONNECT system. Enabling users of the data entry terminal to operate the program in their native language. The internationalization of the interface advances the CONNECT system’s keystone features of user-friendliness and accessibility. Its multilingual support promotes SpencerMetrics global reach within multicultural print production environments. Native language data entry and display enables press operators worldwide to operate within familiar environments. Language can be assigned on an individual operator basis, on one or more presses. Eliminating potential communication barriers furthers the breakthrough usability and accuracy of CONNECT shop floor data capture. With a keen focus on ease-of-use, the CONNECT “2-touch” data

Melville, NY, 17 February 2017- SpencerMetrics LLC, the leading provider of real-time, multi-vendor press management systems, announced the newest feature of the SpencerMetrics CONNECT system – Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) tracking. This enhancement to CONNECT’s powerful real-time OEE analytics helps users gauge their progress in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of their print production. Applying well-established Continuous Improvement best practices from the manufacturing industry to print production. The SpencerMetrics CONNECT OEE module delivers automatic calculation and graphical display of OEE Key Performance Indicator (KPI) metrics. OEE provides a succinct measure of the overall efficiency of a manufacturing operation, along with its fundamental components of availability, quality, and performance. Additional OEE operational metrics include productivity, asset and capacity utilization, etc. With