APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DESCRIBING, PLANNING AND AUTOMATICALLY PROGRAMMING COMPLEX FINISHING TASKS

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system for the electronic management and control of a wide range of finishing processes characterized by input from multiple production operations and equipment that are variably applied to work objects that themselves are highly variable between different jobs. SOLUTION: A job model file is created (70), attributes are assigned to each node identified in the high level job model (71) and the operations to be performed on each mode are identified. Source files for each of the document components are assigned (73), printers are assigned (74), output finishing devices are assigned (75) and processing devices are assigned (76). Job segments for operation of the job are determined based on the attributes and operations associated with each document component (77). Various outputs are shown (78A-78C).