Full-Stack Lineage & Live Operations Orchestration

CIPHER™ is a manufacturing intelligence platform that turns fragmented production data into a single, trustworthy operational record-so teams can reduce human error, cut scrap, and stay audit-ready across any plant. It connects to your existing ERP/MES/OT systems, captures what happened (and why), and surfaces what's happening now through live dashboards and alerts. The result is faster investigation, clearer accountability, and measurable performance improvements-without ripping and replacing your stack.

Operational Intelligence
OEE
AI Assist
Quality & Defect Reduction
Waste Optimization
Digital Twin
AI Decision Support
Real-time Alerts & Monitoring
Predictive Maintenance
Traceability & Lineage
Compliance & Audit Readiness
MES/SCADA Integration
Scalability

One Platform, Enterprise-Wide

CIPHER™ scales enterprise-wide without ripping out what already works, connecting to existing systems and adding governance, role-based UX, and AI copilots for a unified operational view.

Operational Readiness (OEE & Asset Reality)

Understand performance - even with legacy equipment

CIPHER™ captures machine, sensor, and human events to establish operational baselines across old and new assets alike. This enables OEE-style insights, throughput visibility, and utilization tracking without requiring equipment replacement.

Event Readiness (What Actually Happened)

A single source of truth across machines, people, and systems

Every operational, quality, inventory, and logistics event is captured into an immutable timeline - creating a reliable operational history that replaces fragmented logs and spreadsheets.

Governance & Audit Readiness

Always audit-ready, not audit-dependent

CIPHER™ structures operational and document data to align with audit, compliance, and regulatory requirements - reducing audit preparation from weeks to minutes.

Enterprise Intelligence Readiness

From data visibility to decision velocity

With all events unified, CIPHER™'s AI assistant delivers real-time insights, alerts, recommendations, and forecasting across plants, regions, and business units - from one platform.

Platform Capabilities

What's possible with CIPHER™

Immutable Lineage

An append-only lineage layer capturing events across machines, materials, people, and jobs for full traceability.

Live Digital Twin

Real-time digital twins and dashboards for jobs, materials, crews, constraints, and plant operations.

AI Assistant

An AI assistant grounded in your documents and operational lineage to support investigations, audits, and "what happened?" analysis.

Enterprise Integration

Reference architectures and integrations across edge, on-prem, and cloud environments (ERP, MES, SCADA, controllers, data lakes).

Governance & Performance

Role-based access, audit-ready logging, and program-level KPIs to track waste, errors, downtime, and yield by line, site, and SKU.

20–30%

Improved Issue Visibility

Faster issue acknowledgment and response time when errors do occur (via mobile alerts + clear context).

10–15%

Lower Start-Up Losses

Reduction in start-up waste on recurring jobs after standardizing set-up curves based on historical lineage.

30–50%

Audit Time Reduction

Reduction in time to complete audits or customer investigations (from days to hours).

15–25%

Fewer Unplanned Delays

Reduction in unplanned micro-stoppages and “coordination delays” (waiting on info, materials, or approvals).

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Problems we solve for with CIPHER™

Trust the history behind every roll, job, and decision

In secure and high-stakes printing, your history has to be more than spreadsheets and log files. CIPHER™ acts as an immutable operational historian, preserving the full genealogy of materials, machines, and decisions as an append-only event chain. That gives quality, compliance, and portfolio leaders a tamper-evident record they can rely on-across shifts, sites, and GMs.

Stay audit-ready with evidence on demand

Audit week shouldn’t feel like a fire drill. CIPHER™ Audit turns compliance into a continuous, evidence-first workflow, aligned to ISO 14298 and Intergraf ICR. Reconciliation and dual-control sign-offs keep every movement accounted for, while the Evidence Locker organizes proof by clause for instant retrieval. Configure audit profiles and reports to match your workflows. CIPHER™ can map your controls and evidence for any ISO standard you need to meet.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Capabilities with CIPHER™

AI for Quality

CIPHER™ Vault turns your documents, SOPs, and lineage history into AI copilots that can answer "what happened?", surface root causes, and draft reports or CAPAs in seconds.
 grounded in lineage and live data.

LLMs grounded in your data

AI for Maintenance

Models use sensor streams and history from the lineage engine to predict remaining useful life, trigger PM at the right moment, and prioritize work across presses and finishing.

Condition-based care

AI-Built Dashboards & Custom Charts

Operators and leaders describe what they want to see-"show scrap by roll and substrate for the last 30 days," "compare OEE by press for this SKU family"-and CIPHER™ generates tailored charts and dashboards on the fly,

Natural-language analytics

CIPHER™  The Intelligence Layer Across Print & Packaging Manufacturing. Invest once.  Adapt endlessly.

Commercial & General Printing
Packaging Printing
Industrial & Functional Printing
Security & Regulated Printing
Publishing & Media Printing
Specialty Printing
Print-Adjacent Manufacturing Processes
Digital, Data-Driven & Variable Printing
Sustainability-Driven Print Operations
OEM, Private Label & Contract Print Manufacturing
Labels & Tags
Folding Cartons
Flexible Packaging
Corrugated & Box Manufacturing
CIPHER™  is configured to your workflows, data, and standards with an AI model trained to evolve as operations change.

See Your Print Operations the Way They Actually Run.

CIPHER™ is built for owners, operators, and budget holders who need more than another dashboard. They need a trustworthy view of how work really moves through the plant. From reducing human error on the line, to attacking scrap and yield loss, to preserving an immutable history of every roll/job.

CIPHER™
turns your production data into a live operational digital twin you can manage in real time. Our four pillars show how our lineage engine helps secure and fast-paced printers protect margin, simplify audits, and unlock capacity without new hardware.



CIPHER™'s lineage engine turns complex operations into a traceable, trustworthy history of work-whether you're running secure printing, packaging, logistics, or any other industrial production line.

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What's possible with CIPHER™ in the Press Industry.

Roll-Level Genealogy & Waste Analytics

Follow every roll from pulp to press

Computer vision and SPC watch for variation and surface actionable prompts tied to jobs and lots.

Printing & Press Capability

In-Plant Material Tracking & Traceability

CIPHER™ ties roll IDs, pallets, and WIP to the 2D/3D factory layout, so you can see exactly which press, station, or storage area each roll is at-across presses, rewinders, staging, and inventory.

Dynamic Scheduling for Press & Finishing

Follow every roll from pulp to press

Constraint-aware schedules re-sequence jobs as materials, color standards, crews, or regulatory priorities change-using real lineage and WIP, not static assumptions.

Mobile & Tablet Line Alerts

Stay connected to the press, anywhere

CIPHER™ pushes lineage-aware alerts and notifications to mobile and tablet devices-press issues, roll changes, quality holds, and schedule shifts.

Live Operations Dashboard

See Every Signal From Your Presses in One View

CIPHER™'s live dashboard gives owners, operators, and engineers a single heads-up display for the entire printing stack. From one screen you can watch message rates from every press, track active sources and connections, spot defects as they stream in, and see overall system health in real time. Tabs for Overview, Analytics, Impressions, Monitoring, and Sources let you move instantly from a plant-level picture to the specific jobs, lines, and data feeds that need attention.

Monitor real-time activity across presses and systems.
Track connectivity and health to prevent production issues.
Drill from KPIs into defects and root causes.
Data & Device Connectivity

Connect Every Press, Sensor, and Camera to CIPHER™

CIPHER™'s protocol adapters make it easy to bring the real world into your lineage engine. From PLCs and OPC-UA tags to AMQ/MQTT streams, TCP endpoints, and camera feeds, you can manage all live connections from a single control panel. See which adapters are running, stopped, or failing, drill into individual streams, and keep critical data flowing into your dashboards and operational twin without custom one-off integrations.

Connect presses and systems via configurable adapters, no stack rewrite required.
Monitor adapter health with clear running, stopped, and failed states.
Manage connections safely from one screen as systems evolve over time.
Factory Locations Overview

Track Every Press and Warehouse From One Screen

The Locations view gives you a live roster of every press, finishing cell, and warehouse area feeding your operation. Each tile shows how many printers sit at that location, how many impressions they're producing, and whether anything is running, idle, or in a failed state. With one click on View Details, you can dive into a specific location to see its digital twin, roll distribution, and job-level activity, without losing sight of the bigger factory picture.

View all print and finishing areas at a glance, including output and health status.
Spot issues fast by scanning running vs. failed indicators across locations.
Use the overview to jump into deeper views while keeping a portfolio snapshot.
Live Quality Monitoring

See Good vs. Bad Impressions at a Glance

The Enhanced Rollmap gives leaders a real-time quality feed for every press. In a single view, CIPHER™ summarizes the last 24 hours, or any time range you choose, showing how many impressions were good versus bad across all printers, or filtered down to a single press or roll ID. The green bar on the right acts as a visual "health gauge" for your production window, while the event list below lets you investigate individual defects, their source printer, and the exact moment they occurred.

Filter by printer, roll ID, and time range to compare quality or isolate a single job.
Use a green-to-red status bar for a quick snapshot of plant performance.
Drill from roll-level trends into exact defect events and root causes.
OEE & Operational Readiness

Make OEE Actionable Across Every Press

CIPHER's OEE Dashboard gives you a single cockpit for equipment effectiveness across the entire factory. Whether you already have an OEE system or you're streaming raw machine data, CIPHER™ can sit on top of existing calculations or compute OEE directly from run time, downtime, rejects, and cycle data. The dashboard rolls everything up by device, protocol, and shift, showing Availability, Performance, and Quality scores, trend lines, Six Big Losses, and device comparisons so leaders can see where effectiveness is slipping and exactly which presses or lines to focus on first.

Break OEE down by protocol, device, shift, and loss category to see whether problems are driven by downtime, speed, changeovers, or quality escape.
Use OEE trends and benchmarking to prioritize improvements, validate the impact of changes, and keep operational readiness aligned with business targets.
Artificial Intelligence

Technology and integrations Capabilities with CIPHER™

Immutable Lineage Historian

An append-only lineage engine records every event-materials, machines, people, and decisions-as a tamper-evident chain that outlives any single system or site.

Genealogy of every job

Operational Twin & Real-Time Dashboards

Live dashboards show WIP, OEE, scrap, downtime, and inventory pulled from PLC/SCADA and ERP, plus lineage context for each job and roll.

See the line as it runs

Factory Layout Operational Twin

CIPHER™ renders your plant as a 2D or 3D top-down layout, mapping presses, rewinders, finishing lines, labs, and material stations onto an architectural floor plan. Live lineage and OT data show which jobs are on which machines and where each roll or pallet is in the process-updated in real time.

Natural-language analytics

How We Work

Day 1 and Beyond

Day 1 - Diagnostic Workshops

Clarity before commitment.

We meet your team where they are-no jargon, no blame. CORE maps systems, data, and workflows to show exactly where AI will help (and where it shouldn't yet). The outcome is a believable first move that builds confidence on the floor and with leadership.

What you get

  • Readiness scorecard (people, data, process, tech, risk)

  • Data health report with a prioritized fix list

  • Use-case backlog ranked by value, effort, and risk

  • Guardrails for safety, security, and compliance

  • One to three quick-win candidates with clear acceptance criteria

  • A 60–90-day plan and briefings for execs and frontline crews

How we work

Observe real work, stakeholder interviews, map constraints, baseline KPIs (throughput, first-pass yield, changeover time, downtime), UX Research, agree on the first win.

AI Integration
Infrastructure assessment
Data health check
AI readiness scoring
Use-case backlog & prioritization
Quick-wins plan
60–90-day roadmap
How We Work

Day 30 and Beyond

Day 30 - Pilot-to-production implementation

Ship the first win together

COMMAND places embedded AI architects shoulder-to-shoulder with your people to implement a CORE quick win in live operations-transparently, with weekly demos and explicit tradeoffs.

What you get

  • Pilot-to-production implementation with human-in-the-loop controls

  • Integration at the line: PLCs/SCADA/MES, industrial cameras/vision, and existing apps

  • Runbooks, SOPs, and training so the work is repeatable

  • Reliability hardening, monitoring, and rollback plans

  • KPI tracking and value verification (measured lift, not modeled)

  • A path to "next line / next site" if the win holds

How we work

Respect OT constraints (safety, uptime, air-gaps). Operators define acceptance. We transfer capability as we build, so knowledge stays with your team.

AI Integration
Forward-Deployed AI Architects
Pilot-to-production implementation
System optimization & hardening
Runbooks & SOPs
Model/agent oversight
KPI tracking setup
Artificial Intelligence

Technology and integrations Capabilities with CIPHER™

Immutable Lineage Historian

An append-only lineage engine records every event-materials, machines, people, and decisions-as a tamper-evident chain that outlives any single system or site.

Genealogy of every job

Operational Twin & Real-Time Dashboards

Live dashboards show WIP, OEE, scrap, downtime, and inventory pulled from PLC/SCADA and ERP, plus lineage context for each job and roll.

See the line as it runs

Factory Layout Operational Twin

CIPHER™ renders your plant as a 2D or 3D top-down layout, mapping presses, rewinders, finishing lines, labs, and material stations onto an architectural floor plan. Live lineage and OT data show which jobs are on which machines and where each roll or pallet is in the process-updated in real time.

Natural-language analytics

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