Optimus Plus for greater operational control
Improve visibility, planning and workflow flexibility across your Print MIS environment.
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Expand your Print MIS with flexible operational tools
Greater visibility, planning and operational efficiency
Optimus Plus extends the Optimus Core Print MIS platform with additional functionality designed to improve production planning, scheduling, task management and operational visibility.
The Plus suite provides scalable tools that help print businesses adapt workflows, streamline processes and maintain greater control across production environments.
Prestige Scheduler
Real-time finite planning and production scheduling
Prestige Scheduler is an advanced finite planning solution designed to improve scheduling, capacity management and workflow visibility across print environments.
Integrated with the Optimus Print MIS platform, Prestige Scheduler uses operational data and production logic generated through Optimus dash to create accurate production schedules based on job structure, processes and estimated timings.
Production schedules are visualised through an interactive Gantt interface, providing clear visibility across workloads, resource availability and production timelines.
Integrated with Optimus Automate modules — including Connect, Remote Data Collection (RDC) and IMP — Prestige Scheduler combines live production data with Core job tracking to keep planning, scheduling and production workflows continuously aligned.
- Finite production scheduling and capacity planning
- Scheduling logic driven by Optimus dash job structures
- Interactive Gantt-based production planning
- Forward and backward scheduling
- Live workflow updates through Optimus Automate
- Task grouping and workflow continuity management
- Resource management using company-wide planning rules
- “What-if” scenario planning before schedule release
- Visibility across workloads, deadlines and production priorities
Task Diary
Real-time task visibility and workflow management
Optimus Task Diary provides a structured, real-time view of production activities across your Print MIS environment — helping teams manage tasks, priorities and workflow progress more effectively.
Designed for production management, Task Diary brings together live job data, task status, materials, timings and operational activity into a single accessible workspace.
- Real-time visibility across production tasks and workflows
- Centralised access to job, material and task information
- Workflow prioritisation and production activity tracking
- Filtered and configurable task views for different users
- Production work lists with target dates and timings
- Improved visibility across workflow progress and priorities
- Structured task management for fast-moving production environments
Production teams can prioritise tasks, monitor workflow progress and respond quickly to changing production demands, while filtered views and configurable layouts provide clarity across busy environments.
Integrated with Optimus Core, Task Diary supports greater visibility across production workflows and helps maintain continuity between departments, resources and live jobs.
Flexi-Planner
Flexible production planning through automated scheduling and real-time control.
Flexi Planner is a web-based module that helps production teams create, manage and adjust work-to lists efficiently within fast-moving print and manufacturing environments. Its dynamic board view provides clear visibility across production workflows, allowing planners to prioritise work and respond quickly.
The Auto-Plan feature uses advanced algorithms to generate optimised production schedules within seconds based on planning rules, resource availability and shift patterns. Its primary objective is to minimise late jobs while providing fast visibility into production capacity, workloads and resource utilisation.
- Automated production scheduling in seconds
- Visual drag-and-drop task management
- Gantt-based resource and workload visibility
- Planning based on shift patterns and resource availability
- Reduced risk of late jobs and production bottlenecks
- “What-if” scenario planning and rapid re-scheduling
- Workflow task integration through Optimus Automate
- Real-time feedback through Automate RDC Time Collection
- Combination of automated and manual scheduling control
Many businesses generate an automated production plan first before refining schedules manually — creating an effective balance between automated scheduling and operational control. The Task Board provides flexible drag-and-drop scheduling, allowing jobs to be moved, prioritised and adjusted quickly.
Through the Optimus Automate suite, individual or grouped tasks can also be imported from connected workflow systems, while Automate RDC Time Collection provides real-time production feedback.
Bespoke development
Configure, extend or develop tailored functionality around your workflows and production processes.
Optimus software is designed to be highly configurable as standard, providing many businesses with all the flexibility and functionality they require.
However, we fully recognise that some ways of working are mandatory, not optional. Whether driven by customer requirements, specialist production processes, workflow automation or integration needs, Optimus can support tailored development requirements where needed.
Using the Optimus Automate suite — including Web Services and Exporter 2 — businesses can extend connectivity across third-party systems, production workflows and external platforms to support more advanced operational requirements.
Our team can work closely with you to define and deliver bespoke functionality as part of an Optimus-led development project. Alternatively, for businesses with the right technical skills and resources, we can provide the tools and software framework required to support your own development path — enabling greater flexibility, self-sufficiency and long-term control over future development.
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