ATLANTA - Ardis, a partner in optimization, nesting, and production software will be hosting a seminar during IWF 2018 at the Georgia World Congress Center (GWCC) on Thursday, Aug. 23 in Atlanta, Georia. 

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Bern De Lille, Ardis’ operations manager will lead two different 50 minute sessions and each will occur twice, once in the morning, and again in the afternoon. Register for one or both sessions here. 

The seminar will show attendees how to significantly increase efficiency and productivity by applying new developments of the Ardis suite. In addition, the company will unveil the new MES Ardis Production tool which focuses on optimizing communication on the work floor and providing more flexibility.

Session 1: How the new generation of Ardis will help you work faster and more effectively (8:30 AM and 2 PM- Room B205 at GWCC)

New Ardis Products strategy: Learn what the company did to make its product suite better fit the needs of consumers. Understand how Ardis has become much more than an optimizer tool and what benefits current and future features will bring for improving operations.

New features and enhancements for Ardis Optimizer: Learn how the new Ardis optimizer will deliver speed and precision by optimizing jobs for the best and fastest output. Experience how the new user interface will help to enhance productivity in an intuitive way.

Sorting & logistical strategies: Learn about the different strategies Ardis offers to ease sorting and to target optimal yield with fast and easy implementation.

Session 2: Presenting MES: Ardis Production (9:30 AM and 3 PM - Room B205 at GWCC)

How MES Ardis Production will help Improve shop floor communication: The company will explain and demonstrate how real-time data is easily and timely retrieved by operators so that information can be acted upon whenever and wherever needed. This will allow operators to become more productive by doing the right intervention at the right time.

We follow “your way of working”: Adaptability is a key design concept of the company's MES Ardis Production as the product will always support processes as they have been defined for the relevant environment. MES Ardis Production is an off-the-shelf package that is designed to offer both flexibility and adaptability to support processes in the best possible way.

Minimize time losses during scanning: Learn how to increase manual operation productivity up to 30 percent by rationalizing the needed scans.