How it Works
Every Machine. Every Vendor. One View of Your Entire Floor.
Ironsides connects to every printer, inserter, finisher, and fulfillment system on your floor — regardless of manufacturer. We normalize what your machines are telling you and turn it into production intelligence you can act on. In real time. Before the problem becomes a missed SLA.
Automated Production Tracking (APT)
APT tracks every page and every piece across all production lines in real time. It works on all brands of printers, inserters, finishers, and bindery systems including mixed OEM environments. APT surfaces bottlenecks, jam events, SLA thresholds, and production variances the moment
Automated Order Tracking (AOT)
AOT gives your team real-time visibility from order intake through prepress and into production. It tracks individual records as they move through the workflow, identifies delays and sources of rework early, and supports batching to reduce costs. AOT connects prepress to the production floor so you’re not managing two disconnected realities.
Automated Productivity Analytics (APA)
APA turns your production data into financial intelligence. It shows you why machines are not running and are quietly eroding margin. APA helps you to measure and improve productivity .This is how one of our customers recovered $1 million in lost manufacturing prime time in a single year: they tightened their visibility window to the second and found hours of daily hidden production loss they didn’t know existed.
How Deployment Works
We don’t sell software and disappear. Our deployment process is built from 20+ years of learning how print operations actually work.
Week 1–2: Discovery
We walk your floor with you, map your equipment, your workflows, and your SLA structure.
Week 2–3: Integration
We connect to your existing machines. Thirty years of hands on expertise finding ways to get the data you need from any device.
Week 3–4: Proof of concept
Live data from your floor. You see it working before you commit.
Week 4+: Go-live
Your team trained. Reporting dashboards configured for your KPIs.
Compliance & Regulatory Support
For transactional printers operating in regulated industries, Ironsides supports HIPAA, SOX, GDPR, PIPEDA, and HITRUST compliance requirements by providing proactive integrity alerts, piece-level audit trails, and distribution compliance reporting per piece, per job, in real time.
Technical Philosophy
Many OEMs in the printing industry offer proprietary software that tracks their machines and only their machines. That’s not a solution. That’s five different dashboards that don’t talk to each other. Ironsides was built from day one to be vendor-agnostic, open, and cooperative. We work with whatever is on your floor because you shouldn’t have to replace your equipment to gain visibility into it.
Interested in working together?
Let’s discuss your business technology needs and how we can help.