Lone Oak Technologies, LLC.

White Papers…

White papers often combine incomprehensible jargon with impressive sounding prose in an attempt to create a basis for validating a decision to buy the writer's products.

What white papers often lack is real substance.

At Lone Oak Technologies, we like to solve real problems. We know from experience that real-world problems are tough; they don't fit into neat boxes. Nor are the usual presentation slides with triangles, or a series of linked circles, or a 2x2 matrix really very helpful in solving them.

What we have learned is that solutions are best found by focusing on the fundamentals. While answers are often hidden by clouds of acronyms, presumptions, and hype, no matter how complex the technology or sophisticated the terminology, ultimately production systems are all driven by a limited set of fundamental princples.

Our white papers are an attempt to take a straightforward look at these fundamentals that drive production systems.

Getting Higher Yield from your High-Speed Equipment: Creating a Culture of Objective Analysis

ProductionRatios1 (9K) Pressure to reduce production costs has driven growth in investment in high-speed inserting systems throughout the production mail industry. But too often the expected higher yield rates have not been achieved. Attempts to identify the root causes through limited and anecdotal analysis have met with disappointing success. Adopting quantitative analysis tools and techniques used in manufacturing environments to the production mail environment results in dramatic improvements productivity and overall cost savings from decreased overtime.

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Getting the Most from your High-Speed Inserter: The 4 Primary Productivity Factors

Productivity Leaks (13K) In the never ending search for increased productivity, production mail facilities have made significant investments in high speed inserting equipment; unfortunately too often the expected higher yield rates have not been achieved due to the relationship between accelerated machine speed and increased machine downtime. An understanding of the 4 primary inserter productivity factors operating in most production mail environments is an important first step towards dramatic improvements in run time ratios and overall cost savings from decreased overtime.

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Data Driven Mail Production: A Primer

Data Driven Mail Production Overview (13K) Data Driven Mail Production (DDMP), the mailing industry's implementation of Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM), is providing benefits at major mailers around the world. DDMP augments the on-the-page document coding with an electronic data stream that adds new capabilities to an inserting system as well as improving productivity and quality of the operation. DDMP's benefits go beyond just controlling the inserter: it can manage work flows, baseline quality audits, and facilitate enterprise integration. The vendor specific terminology and marketing hype surrounding the DDMP can make it difficult to evaluate alternative solutions and make the most effective use of the technology. This paper lays the ground work for a successful DDMP deployment by providing an overview of its underlying fundamentals.

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Data Driven Mail Production: A Platform for ADF Integration

Data Driven Mail Production Overview (13K) Data Driven Mail Production is a powerful tool that has proven itself in hundreds of mailing applications. The Mailing Data File can be the backbone of a highly evolved Automated Document Factory. The current design of the files entangles statement application programming and mail production technology and creates security risks for the enterprise. A lack of standards has locked mailers to a single vendor, inhibiting the development of third party software, and unnecessarily complicating installation and support. Standardization has helped many industries work together to solve common problems and speed the implementation of new technology. Whether it is linking application programs and printers (PDF, AFP, and PCL), linking websites and browsers (HTML), or digital cameras and photo printers (JPEG, MPEG) data format standards have been the key to transitioning from a single vendor product to an industry. A standard for Data Driven Mail Production can do the same for the mailing industry.

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