Tuesday 28 March 2017

Explore Customised Manufacturing Solutions to increase you r productivity

The manufacturing sector has its unique characteristics and concerns, chief among them being optimization of time and cost. With increasing demands of business amid a competitive ecosystem and increasingly stringent regulations, manufacturing organizations need technology that drives efficiency, sustainability and robustness in the system.

Ricoh helps enable these requirements of manufacturing organizations by seamlessly integrating efficiency and employee productivity. So, whether it is an environmental or a sustainability requirement or even new ways to communicate and collaborate, Ricoh offers customized solutions, specifically tailored to manufacturing industry, that enable:

Optimization and reduction of operational cost resulting in enhanced profits
Mobility and ease of access to information for the mobile workforce
Enhanced productivity of existing setup/employee
Environment sustainability to meet various government norms
Improved security for Data, Devices and Documents to avoid any information leakage
Effective Communication and Collaboration between multi location [countries I departments minimizing travel expenses

Ricoh’s state-of-the-art solutions integrate Information Technology and Operational Technology across multiple platforms and locations, allowing the customer to focus on their key competencies.

Deploying Ricoh Manufacturing Solutions helps every department in an organization with its offerings to enhance efficiencies and bring down costs. It also allows for better information access and management – extremely critical for quicker and efficient work fiow processes as it significantly reduces time-to-market, ensures consistent quality and optimizes cost of operations. Here’s listing some of the features of the Ricoh Manufacturing Solutions applicable for businesses worldwide:

Department Specific Solutions

Ricoh has solutions specific to various departments in an organisation. Here are a few key examples:

Design and Development Department – Interactive Whiteboard and Remote Collaborations that provide smooth handwriting and outstanding quality as well as real-time remote collaboration, where you just switch on and get interacting!
Sales and Marketing Department – CRM Solutions that supports an increasingly mobile workforce and improve sales productivity.
Information Technology – Data and Cloud Services which increases productivity and efficiency with outsourced management.
Purchase Department – Factory Automation Cameras cut down errors in the production line and increase productivity.

Ricoh helps organizations to reduce the environmental impact by offering green products and solutions. In Addition, Ricoh will help you monitor how much you have contributed to the earth by having Ricoh Products and Solution.

Ricoh helps organisations to reduce the environmental impact by placing the office equipments optimally. We also encourage our customers to reduce the power consumption with energy saving modes in our products and solutions. We also help the customer to reduce the paper consumption by duplex printing. In addition, Ricoh provides @Remote Green Report Service that monitors and optimize the equipment usage.

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Industry Solutions - Manufacturing - CEO & CXO Offices

Collaborative Meeting Room Solutions

Solutions for managing Collaboration enables companies to effectively interact and collaborate with multi-plant locations /countries /departments, etc. RICOH enables you to support effective and efficient collaboration within your operations, while streamlining the process of sourcing, delivering, managing and supporting your visual communications environment. The portfolio includes Interactive Whiteboards, portable videoconferencing systems and projectors, all designed to help clients meet the new challenges of today's world of work. The solutions help organizations easily access important, relevant information and collaborate with teams working from home, the office or the road.

Interactive Whiteboard

Enables top management to improve productivity of their working process, by reducing discussion time and increasing productivity – there by reducing the manufacturing cycle for their products.

Manufacturing customers handle many design drawings, photos, and graphic data
Having several kind of meeting: Design Review, QA meetings, Purchasing meetings
Have several branches/ office locations

Issues :

Need to prepare for the meeting – print, share, items such as design drawings, photo, graphic
Hard to communicate and explain /understand correction points
At times need to travel – increases

Ricoh’s – IWB - Benefits

Offers high-quality, smooth handwriting and a high resolution display, and enables instant remote document sharing via a printer or the cloud.
Correction over the image - Easier to find out and correct points
Write down and share discussion points, and directly correct points from IWB
Shared captured documents via email as meeting minutes
Supports discussion, saving and emailing of documents and conduct of ‘remote’ interactive meetings in real-time.

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Unified Communication Solutions

Portable and low cost video conferencing solutions to conduct on-the-video video conferences, collaborative meetings, anywhere and anytime.
Enjoy mobility, anytime, anywhere

Key Features

As portable as a laptop, this device can connect up to 20 locations wirelessly for a video conference.
It employs communication control and cloud technology. Now you can enjoy mobility, anytime, anywhere.
Low initial cost and reduced travelling cost – Simple, low-cost visual communication to increase business efficiency and productivity. Plus, there are no expensive video conferencing systems to maintain.

Office Printing Solutions

RICOH is a market leader in office printing solutions and provide a range of black and white and colour printers that are suited for both small offices that only print documents, and for large manufacturing firms that require high-speed, high-quality printing with low running costs. Colour touch panels make these printers incredibly easy to use, while selected models have ECO Night Sensors to reduce energy consumption while the office is closed
Ricoh’s printers come with a variety of workflow solutions which are easily integrated into your printing package. Smart reports can help you monitor and track device usage and user behaviour to analyse and control costs, while card authentication options give your users a simple way to protect sensitive information.

Multi Functional Printers & Laser Printers

Colour & B/W A3 Multi-Function Printers

Range of best-in-class A3 and A4, high-speed MFPs, from 17 to 135 ppm.
Reliable, rugged and modular, and have an amazingly low running cost making them an ideal solution for centralised printing, copying and scanning in any office.
Highest level of security, through features such as data encryption and user authentication.
Lost cost models having available for SMEs having very low running cost.

Colour & B/W Laser Printers

Complete range of laser printers in both colour and black & white.
Only company in India offering Jam free technology, and Refill Toner Pouch for handling Toner Refill yourself.

The manufacturing sector in India is at a tipping point, with the recently announced policy directives set to fuel the industry's growth.

While most organizations understand their key technology transformational requirements, the deterrent to implementing it is a lack of clear visibility of ROI by the CXO, hampering his ability to arrive at an informed decision. Further, different vendors or OEMs approach manufacturing companies with a point solution targetting one or limited problem or improvement area. Due to this narrow approach, CXOs face difficulties in assessing the impact of a technological change or transformation at various levels in the organization.

With an entire portfolio of end-to-end solutions for the complete value chain, Ricoh India helps manufacturing companies optimize their operations and improve productivity manifold.

Shop-Floor Solutions

RICOH India’s shop-floor solutions are aimed at improving the most important factors of production:‘Cost’ & ‘Quality’. Greater efficiency & higher productivity in operations leads to optimized cost of operations; while real time, precision monitoring leads to an agile, automated, and adaptive quality monitoring. RICOH’s Shop-Floor Productivity Monitoring Solution helps manufacturing companies achieve higher productivity by connecting shop-floor to the top floor through real time monitoring and reporting of machine performance, productivity, downtimes, production output, etc. Further, RICOH’s WIP Inventory Tracking System is another solution aimed at bringing efficiency in operations and optimizing resources. The solution automates the tracking & reporting of Work-in-Progress inventory in a manufacturing set-up. The solution also ensures identification of various lots of production, identification of product lots within factory premises, and connecting to servers to provide all the information to ERP directly. RICOH’s Machine vision solution automates the quality monitoring and reporting in the production line. The solution is aimed at providing ‘Real time monitoring of quality of the product’ and provide direct savings for the manufacturing companies by reducing scrap & wastages, and reducing the manpower dependency.

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CEO/CXO Offices

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Sales & Marketing

RICOH’s solutions for sales & marketing solution completes the value proposition as end-to-end solutions provider for manufacturing organization. RICOH’s mobility solutions provide automation and real time reporting of the last mile of the sales & distribution channel. Capabilities like dynamic sales & purchase reports, real-time order management, on-the-go information on SKUs, etc. are provided to clients through the mobility solution. RICOH’s production printing solutions provide high quality printing solutions for marketing collaterals, brochures, office stationery etc. which enables clients to produce great looking outputs and reduce overall printing time & costs. RICOH’s ‘Mera CRM’ is a fully customizable CRM solution that is adaptive to any organization. The solution is aimed at improving the overall sales productivity by automating the workflows for major functions like sales & territory planning, lead management, opportunity management, account management, forecasting & sales analytics, etc.

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Supply-Chain & Warehousing

RICOH helps manufacturing companies in automating the workflows in the entire supply chain operations, by providing solutions for improving inventory visibility, material movement, storage utilization and manpower utilization, etc. Ricoh’s barcode printing solutions, utilizes the precision and low operating costs of Ricoh printers and multifunction devices to print one or two dimensional barcodes (e.g. Code 128 or PDF 417) and thus improve productivity and optimize workflows. Automatic identification and data capture solutions of RICOH (also called AIDC) utilizes a family of technologies like barcodes, RFID, voice recognition, etc. that identify, verify, record, communicate and store information on discrete, packaged or containerized items. Typical applications include receiving and put-away, inventory picking, order fulfilment, determination of weight and volume, and tracking and tracing throughout the supply chain. Further, RICOH’s Managed Document Services enables manufacturing companies perform remote/on-site end-to-end management of all invoices, bills, and other dispatch documents. The solutions further provides easy Archival, distribution and retrieval facility to clients.

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Design & Engineering

RICOH India provides an entire range of solutions for design & product development. The solution bouquet includes NX™ software, a leading integrated solution for computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering (CAD/CAM/CAE), and Teamcenter® portfolio, the world’s most widely used digital lifecycle management software today. These integrated product design solutions streamlines and accelerates the product development process and enable collaboration & integration of the design process. Further, 3D Printing & Scanning solutions provide rapid prototyping & reverse engineering capabilities to the client that brings innovation at desk of designers, and enable clients to reduce both time & cost to brings new products in the market. RICOH’s wide format print solutions provide provides printing solutions for large-format multi-functionality for CADcentric organisations. Ricoh India’s Drawing Management Solutions helps you to manage the physical drawings in a better way. Ricoh India helps you to archive and retrieve solutions and ensures security and better record management.

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Product Lifecycle Management Solutions

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) can bring together all the product information and processes you need in one centralized system. You can take a systems-driven approach to product development to unify your product lifecycle.

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IT Technology Services

RICOH India is your one-stop partner for all the IT hardware and software requirements.

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Industry Solutions - Educational Institution

The paradigms of learning are changing rapidly. As the world becomes increasingly digital, students are fast embracing technology in their personal lives, therefore, necessitating interactive learning environments in education too. As a result, the demands being placed on educational institutes are immense, ranging from infrastructure upgradation and technology adoption to staffing issues and providing engaging learning experiences. Ricoh, with its vast experience in IT services is best placed to address your concerns - as enumerated below - and provide customised solutions for educational institutions, be it schools or those of higher learning.

Administrative Centre

Governance of education becomes a critical aspect to ensure operational efficiency and transparency in a technology rich environment at the institute today. Ricoh provides innovative administrative solutions for an education institute including ERP platforms for maintaining student information and enabling automation of several processes such as Fee management, admissions and attendance records.

Ricoh’s Records Management Solution for Higher Education offers you a suite of services and software solutions for improving the way you manage student records at each phase of the constituent lifecycle. For example, our software can automate your admissions workflow – enabling faster, more accurate capture and routing of the student’s application, exam papers, test scores, recommendations, medical records and other content that each applicant submits.

In addition to effective data management of student records and institute data, Ricoh also provides real time monitoring solutions for the range of printing devices, which allow an institute to track the individual machine level consumption thereby effectively controlling their spends.

With sizeable data required to be securely stored and managed by the institute, Ricoh offers a vast range of cloud services with highly skilled professionals, immense technical acumen as well as round the clock customer support and at affordable prices.

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Auditorium & Communications Centre

Leveraging Ricoh’s legacy of precision optics and lens technology, Ricoh offers a wide range of projectors to cater to different education institutes. From low cost regular throw projectors to compact ultra-short throw interactive projectors, these offer a complete classroom solution for any institute.

The Ricoh projectors are very well complemented by yet another product from Ricoh – interactive whiteboard. It offers high-quality,smooth handwriting and a high-resolution display, and enables easy remote image sharing across multiple campuses. The whiteboard’s 55-inch, full HD LCD display incorporates an LED backlight for outstanding brightness and long life and comes with an adapted Gorilla® glass for clear visibility.

With evolving campus layouts, learning is no longer confined to the boundaries of a conventional classroom which is paving the demand for way of an education institute. In line with the aforementioned Ricoh has developed an innovative portable technology platform - Unified Communication System (UCS). It provides real-time interactive audio and video communication with multiple locations via the cloud. This compact, lightweight take-along anywhere configuration comes packed with wired and wireless LAN support and a simple-to-operate interface that makes it as easy to use as a mobile phone. Unlike conventional video conferencing systems, the Ricoh UCS frees you from the constraints of location and the need for expert knowledge. So, simply plug and talk to anyone, anywhere, anytime.

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Library & Examination Centre

With the objective of simplifying document handling, Ricoh offers a safe environment with the easy to use digitization services wherein hard files are scanned, cleaned, converted into PDF/A format and metadata is added to the same to enable easy retrieval when needed.

With library being a public space, print documents can be subject to unauthorized view and access. In order to prevent the same, Ricoh printers come equipped with Card Authentication services which allow students to secure their print documents from unauthorized viewers.

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Printing Centre

From standalone printing devices to holistic solutions, the Ricoh Printing Centre helps your institute increase efficiency and productivity resulting in reduced operational costs. From class leading Multi-Function Printers (MFPs) which come with enhanced security features such as card based printing, data encryption, the Ricoh MFPs are reliable, modular and yet a low cost solution for diverse printing requirements in educational institutes. The MFPs are complemented by the high speed Digital Duplicators which equip an institute with the speed and reliability of an offset printer and generate output on a wide range of media.

The Ricoh Printing Centre provides a host of document solutions which help an institute in creation, secure storage and ready retrieval of documents thereby enhancing the overall productivity of the institute.

The Ricoh Printing Centre also allow you to easily print from any mobile platform connected to Wi-Fi or the Internet. Our idea's brilliance lies in its simplicity. It used the infrastructure you already have in place, or available in a plug and play device, so costs and set up time are minimal.

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Classrooms

Ricoh offers a vast portfolio of classroom technologies such as ClassTech - a comprehensive K12 Learning solution and complements the in classroom technologies with portable devices for students including both Android and Windows based devices. Being Light weight and with durable design these devices facilitate creation of an one-to-one interactive learning environment in a classroom.

Most educators agree on the potential to increase collaboration and student engagement with mobile learning, but they also share concerns about how to maintain control of the devices. Features such as track tablet including GPS location of lost or stolen devices; to be able to remotely wipe school/college date from student-owned devices; and monitor policy violations and threats are some of the value add-ons which are available as part of a classroom solution.

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Computer Centre

We partner with you to offer technical solutions that meet your immediate requirements and grow as your business grows in future. Attentive customer support from skilled, experienced and trained manpower goes hand-in-hand with outstanding technology solutions. Our breadth of experience translates in our ability to recommend, design, deploy and maintain your IT Infrastructure.

We have built and maintained some of the most challenging infrastructure and include standalone computer labs, shared computing labs and dedicated centers for virtual education.

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Read more at : https://www.ricoh.co.in/solutions/industry-solutions/education

Industry Solutions - Educational Institution - Computer Centre

IT Infrastructure & System Integration

Ricoh Education solutions provide end to end IT infrastructure solutions for educational solutions including standalone computer labs, digital classrooms, data center and cloud services. Ricoh has partnered with leading organizations to forge strong alliances which enable quality IT services to the educational institutes.

For more information read: https://www.ricoh.co.in/solutions/industry-solutions/education

Industry Solutions - Educational Institution - Classrooms

Portable Educational Devices

Ricoh Education solutions provide comprehensive solutions for student devices. These devices are based on both Android and Windows platform and can be further preloaded with educational content based on curriculum. Light weighted yet durable design these are ideal for one-to-one environments empowering students to research, take digital notes, and access course materials both in and out of the classroom.

K12 Learning Solution

ClassTech – A Comprehensive K12 Learning Solution
The ClassTech solution is a unique technology platform which undertakes a collaborative approach towards enabling an interactive learning environment for the students and at the same time allow the administration to easily manage the complete IT infrastructure.

The ClassTech solution comprises of the following components
In today’s digital world, Ricoh ClassTech not only facilitates a teacher in the classroom but also helps to address the unique demands of the students.

Read more at: https://www.ricoh.co.in/solutions/education/classrooms

Industry Solutions - Educational Institution - Printing Centre

Printing Centre

The Ricoh Printing Centre provides a host of document solutions which help an institute in creation, secure storage and ready retrieval of documents thereby enhancing the overall productivity of the institute.

The Ricoh Printing Centre also allow you to easily print from any mobile platform connected to Wi-Fi or the Internet. Our idea's brilliance lies in its simplicity. It used the infrastructure you already have in place, or available in a plug and play device, so costs and set up time are minimal.

Integrated Print Copy Scan Solution

Ricoh Print Desk ^TM is an Integrated Print In Document Management Facility that addresses the needs of different educational institutes. It is a one-stop solution for both the institute administration and the students. addressing all their printing and document management requirements under a single roof.

Ricoh Print Desk ^TM is a first, one-of-its-kind (configurator based integrated offering, which means that it can be customized to meet the specific needs of any educational institute easily. Comprising

Printers and Multifunction Devices
Applications
Host of services a in a single bouquet ,it is modular in nature, easily integrated with other components or even an existing setup

A Collaborative solution

The solution works in tandem with the educational institution and its real time requirements. A certain set of pre-defined parameters which help generate relevant inputs from the institute are as follows:

Print volume
Size of print
colour vs. mono
Turnaround time for the print job
Number of users
Scan volume
Distance between user and nearest located machine

High Volume Printing Solution

Mobile Printing Solution

Ricoh Cloud Printing Solutions scalable for your specific business needs. Ricoh Mobile Printing Technology opens a whole new world of print options, by taking advantage of the fact that all devices connected to the cloud, whether company owned or personal are, in fact, connected to each other. Ricoh offerings allow you to easily print from any mobile platform connected to Wi-Fi or the Internet. Our idea's brilliance lies in its simplicity. It used the infrastructure you already have in place, or available in a plug and play device, so costs and set up time are minimal. Finally the future of printing has arrived.

Digital Duplicator Solution

Copy a variety of documents in different sizes whilst reproducing high-quality time after time. Our comprehensive range of spot colour capable CopyPrinters offers cost conscious organizations high-speed, high-volume image duplication solutions designed to increase productivity in the office. With advanced image duplicating technology and excellent paper and media handling, you can easily produce high-quality output time after time.

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Digital Wide Format Solution

Industry Solutions - Educational Institution - Library & Examination Centre

Digitization & Archiving Solution

All Schools, Colleges & Universities have abundant student records as well as employee records, research documents, accounting information and numerous other documents. These documents need to be managed & preserved till some specified duration and doing so becomes a daunting task for these institutions.

A document management system makes this a lot easier, introducing the Ricoh digitization and archiving solution – RicohDocs.

The major challenge faced by almost all educational institutions is to control costs while ensuring improvement in quality processes.

RicohDocs comes with the power to centrally manage the flow of all the documents and records within an educational institution thereby providing all its users with instant access to information. It also comes with a comprehensive security control system enforcing all access rights as per their classification. All students across the educational institution can be provided with student level access to RicohDocs which can be used to provide them with study materials. Management level access will help professors to distribute content among the students and get timely reports.

Access Based Secured Printing Solutions

This is an innovative secure printing solution that allows the student to send prints to the machine anytime, but the prints can be collected only upon tapping the machine with access cards, thereby ensuring complete document protection as well as preventing any misuse.

It’s a win-win solution for both the student and the administrator. It allows the administrators to maintain complete control on the machines and individual users. At the same time, it offers 24 hour service access to the students, which they can utilize at their own convenience in the campus.

Additionally, the solution also enables the administrator to monitor the print consumption of individual users on campus and assign specific quotas where required, thereby maintaining complete control.

Read more at: https://www.ricoh.co.in/solutions/industry-solutions/education/library-examination-centre

Industry Solutions - Educational Institution - Auditorium & Communications Centre

The Ricoh projectors are very well complemented by yet another product from Ricoh – interactive whiteboard. It offers high-quality,smooth handwriting and a high-resolution display, and enables easy remote image sharing across multiple campuses. The whiteboard’s 55-inch, full HD LCD display incorporates an LED backlight for outstanding brightness and long life and comes with an adapted Gorilla® glass for clear visibility.

With evolving campus layouts, learning is no longer confined to the boundaries of a conventional classroom which is paving the demand for way of an education institute. In line with the aforementioned Ricoh has developed an innovative portable technology platform - Unified Communication System (UCS). It provides real-time interactive audio and video communication with multiple locations via the cloud. This compact, lightweight take-along anywhere configuration comes packed with wired and wireless LAN support and a simple-to-operate interface that makes it as easy to use as a mobile phone. Unlike conventional video conferencing systems, the Ricoh UCS frees you from the constraints of location and the need for expert knowledge. So, simply plug and talk to anyone, anywhere, anytime.

Multimedia Interactive Projection Solutions

Universally it is a well-known fact that visual aids result in increased retention of subject matter and facilitate easier understanding of concepts in a classroom environment.
Based on Ricoh’s legacy in precision optics and lens technology, Ricoh brings a wide range of projection solutions for the various educational institutions in the country. Starting from digital classroom based projection solutions for K12 schools to high end professional projection solutions for large university auditoriums, Ricoh projection solutions are versatile to adapt and easy to maintain.

The Ricoh portfolio also comprises of the World’s first Ultra Short Throw Interactive projection solution which can be carried easily from one classroom to another without the need for dismantling the complete projection setup.

Portable Virtual Classroom Solutions

While educational institutes are fast expanding their reach into remote geographies across the country, they often encounter infrastructural problems such as availability of expert faculty in the given location.

Ricoh has developed an innovative virtual classroom solution which enables a faculty to connect to over 18 classrooms across multiple campuses. This solution comprises of a portable integrated unit which has an in-built high resolution wide angle camera to capture the classroom and microphone with speakers to allow audio exchange.

The Ricoh virtual classroom solution can connect with multiple locations over the internet through any standard broadband connection. It is comparatively a low cost virtual classroom solution and does not involve setting up of extensive infrastructure at either end.

Collaborative Interactive Whiteboard Solutions

With increasing access to knowledge beyond the classrooms, instructional strategies are fast evolving to pave the way for new concepts such as flipped classrooms and research based group discussions warranting for the educational institutes to evolve their classroom infrastructure in the same direction.

Ricoh Education solutions has developed a collaborative learning solution to help institutes achieve aforementioned objective of a new age classroom. The Collaborative Learning solution allows students not only maintain real time digital notes during the class sessions but also allows multiple connected campuses to interact and exchange learning material. Students can further disseminate their classroom notes written on the interactive whiteboard directly through e-mail or even print out the copies for other students.

The Ricoh Collaborative Learning Solution facilitates the following benefits for an educational institute :

High-quality, smooth handwriting and a high resolution display, and enables instant remote document sharing via a printer or the cloud.
Write down and share discussion points, and directly correct points from IWB in the classroom
Shared captured documents via email as classroom discussions
Supports saving and emailing of documents and conduct of ‘remote’ interactive classrooms in real-time.

Read more at: https://www.ricoh.co.in/solutions/industry-solutions/education/auditorium-solutions

Industry Solutions - Educational Institution - Administrative Centre

Administrative Centre

Workflow management Solutions

Ricoh’s Records Management Solution for Higher Education offers you a suite of services and software solutions for improving the way you manage student records at each phase of the constituent lifecycle. For example, our software can automate your admissions workflow – enabling faster, more accurate capture and routing of the student’s application, transcripts, test scores, recommendations, immunizations and other content that each applicant submits. We can also help you in digitizing legacy records so that you can more effectively communicate with past students.

Surveillance & Security Solutions

Ricoh provides end to end surveillance solutions for schools and universities which enable the institutes to monitor different areas in real time. The solution includes supply and installation of the camera units and the software platform for the institute.

ERP Solutions

Governance of education becomes a critical aspect to ensure operational efficiency and transparency in a technology-rich classroom environment where students are active, rather than passive, producing knowledge and presenting that knowledge in a variety of formats. In view of this, Ricoh has developed comprehensive ERP Solutions for educational institutions.

Print Infrastructure Management Solution

In today’s competitive environment cost control has become a paramount factor for educational institutions especially in view of large corporates stepping into this sector. In context of a multi-function product setup it often becomes difficult to monitor the expense of each individual machine. In order to overcome such roadblocks for the institute Ricoh has designed specialized print infrastructure management solutions which are not only affordable but are also easy to use. The solution provided by Ricoh helps the institutes in:

Tracking detailed usage of each print machine
Reduce workload on the institute IT department
Reduce downtime by allowing flexible printing from any machine on network
Provide card based print release function

Cloud Storage Solutions

The advent of cloud computing services has made the lives of most small and medium businesses simpler. Cloud hosting server and internet, together, forge a terrific partnership that can help businesses not only increase their productivity but also to cut down on the expenditure.

For most SMB’s, the requirements of a hosting server is high given the large amount of data/information that is exchanged within the organization as well as with the clients. As the volume of data grows, it becomes necessary to have a hosting server of their own so as to store their data. Most companies prefer outsourcing the work to external vendors who provide data center solutions and services. The cost of installing a server and having the necessary infrastructure and skilled technical personnel to maintain the cloud server hosting is extremely high. So, most of them opt for professional service providers to as opposed to having the same in-house for affordable prices.

For more details read: https://www.ricoh.co.in/solutions/industry-solutions/education/administrative-centre

Industry Solutions - Educational Institution -

The paradigms of learning are changing rapidly. As the world becomes increasingly digital, students are fast embracing technology in their personal lives, therefore, necessitating interactive learning environments in education too.

As a result, the demands being placed on educational institutes are immense, ranging from infrastructure upgradation and technology adoption to staffing issues and providing engaging learning experiences.

Ricoh, with its vast experience in IT services is best placed to address your concerns - as enumerated below - and provide customised solutions for educational institutions, be it schools or those of higher learning.

For more details read: https://www.ricoh.co.in/solutions/industry-solutions/education

Tuesday 14 March 2017

How can Managed Document Services (MDS) help you increase productivity in your organisation?

By reducing and optimising the number of hardware devices

By identifying additional printing resources

By streamlining workflow and moving to a paperless environment

By reducing your organisation’s carbon footprint

All of the above

Read more at: http://newsletter.ricoh.co.in/how-can-managed-document-services-mds-help-you-increase-productivity-in-your-organisation/1974

Go paperless, go green with Ricoh’s Digital Meter Reading & Billing System

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As a company, Ricoh has always been conscious of its environmental responsibilities, as exemplified by its philosophy of pursuing a balance between the ‘Ps’ – People, Planet and Profit. Now it extends this commitment to yet another area, and has invited customers to join hands with it.

To reduce its environmental impact, the company is digitising its meter reading and billing process. All machines with the option to send automated meter reads will be invoiced based on the data captured through its cloud service @Remote. Ricoh’s technical staff will interact with customers’ IT support department to enable this service, if it is not already enabled.

In parallel, we will be implementing paperless E-billing via email. Customers just need to share with us an authorised personnel’s email ID to operationalise this system. An easy and convenient way to pay bills via electronic transfer through RTGS/NEFT is enabled for all customers.

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Read more at: http://newsletter.ricoh.co.in/go-paperless-go-green-with-ricohs-digital-meter-reading-billing-system/1956

How do you take your average enterprise printing set up and then lower costs by half, save over Rs. 40 lakh a year, and ensure a 98% uptime? Ask Siemens and Ricoh

Siemens, a Rs. 12,000 crore company, was looking at scaling down its overall costs and managing core operations more effectively. Satish Kotgire, Head-IT infrastructure, Siemens, chose to strategically outsource non-core, yet vital areas of the company’s IT and business processes.

His team identified the opportunity to lower overhead costs in the company’s document and output management processes. “We wanted to centralise our IT spending for printers, copiers, consumables, and production sites with the goal of reducing operational and maintenance costs. This would eventually improve our cost structures related to document output,” says Kotgire.

Siemens is also committed to a multi-faceted environmental sustainability plan consisting of staff education, a reduction of solid waste, and decreased energy consumption and greenhouse gases. Therefore, Kotgire and his team chose to implement a solution that could support Siemens’ environmental sustainability goals.

The task of managing equipment, printing and distribution, billing, reporting and meeting the needs of over 14,000 employees was daunting, and with no central means of managing overall costs. That’s why Siemens chose to partner with Ricoh. “We looked to Ricoh to leverage its expertise, experience and global presence to support us,” says Kotgire.

Controlling output costs

Kotgire began by establishing a baseline – “The first step was to make a thorough assessment of our office infrastructure. That revealed a surplus of under-utilised devices,” he says. His team and Ricoh found that there was a need to manage nearly 700 devices. “This meant that we had 20 employees, on average, to each device. Approximately 26% of these devices were either out-of-date or malfunctioning, and were responsible for excessive print costs”.

His team also discovered that there was a lack of asset management and cost control for printers, supplies, and the management of devices. Complicating the situation was the fact that Siemens had five or more vendors supplying print/copy services with varying consumables, support and billing. After a thorough study, Ricoh recognised an opportunity to optimise, rationalise and provide standard technology platforms to Siemens’ office environment.

Improving sustainability

Kotgire decided to implement a centralised programme to shrink the company’s total annual document output costs. A large portion of Siemens’ output fleet was replaced with Ricoh MFDs – a newer, more cost-effective, and more energy-efficient technology approach to document management.

Siemens, with the help of Ricoh, set up an asset database to track, bill, and report documents across India. It also created an integrated printer and IT help desk that logs and tracks all user inquiries and service calls.

Ricoh is also helping Siemens to achieve its sustainability goals by introducing Ricoh’s new Quick Start Up (QSU) technology, an energy saving methodology with PxP toner multifunction devices that result in 25% less waste than typical laser printers. Ricoh diligently recycles toner cartridges according to its enterprise sustainability guidelines.

In addition, Ricoh ensured that double-sided (duplex) print is a default feature on all its devices. “We have now established an ongoing data-gathering process and critical performance metrics through quality tools, which will eventually form a part of Siemens’ framework for continuously improving the quality of our customer service,” says Kotgire.

Efficient service delivery

Siemens was impressed with Ricoh’s rapid implementation of equipment and services right from Ricoh’s MDS program. Kotgire was able to gain complete control of output costs. “We achieved a 55% decrease in costs per page, as we removed 250 output devices and simultaneously increased our employee-to device ratio by more than 35%. This has enabled us to achieve our financial and document management goals to a great extent,” says Kotgire.

Overall, Ricoh has successfully helped Siemens to save 30% in costs, amounting to over Rs. 42 lakh a year. Siemens also experienced a significant reduction in its asset base and notable improvements in its printing processes.

Siemens has now decided to continually expand its relationship with Ricoh by including other subsidiaries into the plan. Using Ricoh’s proven model, Siemens will continue to control functions such as helpdesk, break/fix, supplies management, asset management, and proactive device management for all Ricoh and non-Ricoh devices in the company’s offices nationally.

Says Satish Kotgire, “Ricoh’s technology, knowledge, and process deliver value to our business units, cost savings to IT, and the ability to re-invest those savings in IT innovation.”

Project ROI

55% decrease in average cost per page
30% cost savings, that translates to over Rs. 42 lakh a year
98% equipment uptime
Improved employee-to-device ratio by over 35%
Proactive monitoring of devices
Standardisation simplifies overall output environment, yet allows for regional/local flexibility
Scalable, replicable global solution
Centralised cost control
Improved regional application and workflow

Read more at: http://newsletter.ricoh.co.in/ricoh-helps-siemens-drive-efficiency-and-sustainability-3/1951

Ricoh helps Siemens drive efficiency and sustainability

How do you take your average enterprise printing set up and then lower costs by half, save over Rs. 40 lakh a year, and ensure a 98% uptime? Ask Siemens and Ricoh.

Siemens, a world-class solution provider in the engineering and manufacturing segment, plays a key role in India’s quest for developing modern infrastructure. As a company, Siemens is committed to drive causes which maximise value and minimise costs.

But that’s not always easy when the company operates more than 50 offices in 25 cities and has to assimilate additional people and infrastructure after strategic acquisitions.

Tackling cost challenges

Siemens, a Rs. 12,000 crore company, was looking at scaling down its overall costs and managing core operations more effectively. Satish Kotgire, Head-IT infrastructure, Siemens, chose to strategically outsource non-core, yet vital areas of the company’s IT and business processes.

His team identified the opportunity to lower overhead costs in the company’s document and output management processes. “We wanted to centralise our IT spending for printers, copiers, consumables, and production sites with the goal of reducing operational and maintenance costs. This would eventually improve our cost structures related to document output,” says Kotgire.

Siemens is also committed to a multi-faceted environmental sustainability plan consisting of staff education, a reduction of solid waste, and decreased energy consumption and greenhouse gases.

Therefore, Kotgire and his team chose to implement a solution that could support Siemens’ environmental sustainability goals.

The task of managing equipment, printing and distribution, billing, reporting and meeting the needs of over 14,000 employees was daunting, and with no central means of managing overall costs. That’s why Siemens chose to partner with Ricoh. “We looked to Ricoh to leverage its expertise, experience and global presence to support us,” says Kotgire.

Know more at: http://newsletter.ricoh.co.in/ricoh-helps-siemens-drive-efficiency-and-sustainability-3/1951

Ricoh wows customers at Printpack 2017 with a range of unique applications

13th Printpack IPAMA Expo was held from 4th-8th February 2017 at India Expo Centre, Greater Noida. Called ‘the world’s 3rd largest international exhibition on graphic arts industry’, the event brings together thousands of leading imaging professionals from every sector of the imaging industry – sign making, digital imaging, commercial printing and garment decoration seeking innovative products, methodologies and applications.

The response was tremendous in terms of both the number of prospects met and business generated. Despite the location being Greater Noida, regarded as far-off by many, the show attracted serious buyers from amongst the target audience.

What worked for the Ricoh stall was the unique approach where visitors were asked to explore a wide variety of non-paper substrates such as PVC, non-tearable, synthetic and magnetic media.

This is a challenge for most of Ricoh’s competitors because their machines don’t have the technology to handle this kind of variability. In contrast, Ricoh engines are created with a fuser temperature between 180 and 200 degrees.

Pro C9100/C9110 – For affordable and versatile high speed digital printing
Pro C7100X/C7110X – With Neon Yellow/ White/ Clear toner, for value added applications
Pro C5100S/C5110S – For printing on any media – thick or coated, textured
or coloured
Pro 8200S – For more choices of media and finishes, more control,
more speed
MP W6700 – For affordable wide-format multi-functionality with LED technology

Ricoh’s stall witnessed a high footfall of visitors, who got a great opportunity to experience latest technologies and innovations in the printing industry.

Read more at: http://newsletter.ricoh.co.in/ricoh-wows-customers-at-printpack-2017-with-a-range-of-unique-applications/1945

Metadata scanning

Whenever a DMS captures a file, it detects the metadata of that particular document and this helps track the document.

Metadata is basically a short description about a file which gives certain basic information about that document. Document management solutions that store documents based on the metadata ensure that users can search for those with ease.

This is because any user can retrieve the needed document simply by mentioning the keyword that is specified in the metadata.

The problem of manual document storage is known to almost all and an efficient DMS helps store documents conveniently. Since a document management solution can store vast quantity of documents, it’s of great importance to review the storage capacity of the software periodically.

In fact, the professionals who are responsible for managing the utility of the DMS, should be able to decide what should be stored and what should be archived.

There might be also certain documents which should be destroyed after a certain point of time

Read more at: http://newsletter.ricoh.co.in/how-document-management-software-can-help-your-business-in-the-long-run/1940

The key purpose of using a document management software is to streamline all the business processes

Streamlined business process – The key purpose of using a document management software is to streamline all the business processes so that the required access can be generated for a particular document as and when needed.

But in order to execute this successfully, users should know how to link the types of records with the particular business processes.

Be sure all your employees are aware of this process as this is what will determine successful implementation of the entire agenda.

Read more: http://newsletter.ricoh.co.in/how-document-management-software-can-help-your-business-in-the-long-run/1940

With the constantly changing requirements of the businesses, the nature of document management solutions has evolved to a great extent

The nature of document management solutions has evolved to a great extent. Although these solutions earlier used to support only a limited number of file formats, now they have been revised to a great extent. These softwares are designed and developed in a way so that they help business organisations in a number of ways.

If your organisation is already planning to implement an automated document management software, and you are still not sure in what ways it’s going to help your business, below are some of the most important factors to keep in mind:

Metadata scanning – Whenever a DMS captures a file, it detects the metadata of that particular document and this helps track the document. Metadata is basically a short description about a file which gives certain basic information about that document.

Document management solutions that store documents based on the metadata ensure that users can search for those with ease. This is because any user can retrieve the needed document simply by mentioning the keyword that is specified in the metadata.

Efficient storage – The problem of manual document storage is known to almost all and an efficient DMS helps store documents conveniently. Since a document management solution can store vast quantity of documents, it’s of great importance to review the storage capacity of the software periodically.

In fact, the professionals who are responsible for managing the utility of the DMS, should be able to decide what should be stored and what should be archived. There might be also certain documents which should be destroyed after a certain point of time.

Read more: http://newsletter.ricoh.co.in/how-document-management-software-can-help-your-business-in-the-long-run/1940

How document management software can help your business in the long run

Document management is undoubtedly one of the key practices of the businesses in the present scenario. Right from SMBs to large-scale business organisations, all are aware of the painful aspects of handling documents manually. And it’s true that while running a business, thousands of paper documents are generated every other day.

Although initially it seems that the paper documents can be managed with the help of a professional, it’s not really possible with the constantly increasing volume of paper. This is why, these days businesses prefer to invest in document management systems that help automate the process of document management.

These are state-of-the-art-solutions that enable the organisations to perform a lot of actions including converting, storing and sharing varied types of digital documents within a certain network.

With the constantly changing requirements of the businesses, the nature of document management solutions has evolved to a great extent. Although these solutions earlier used to support only a limited number of file formats, now they have been revised to a great extent.

These softwares are designed and developed in a way so that they help business organisations in a number of ways.

Read more: http://newsletter.ricoh.co.in/how-document-management-software-can-help-your-business-in-the-long-run/1940

Sunday 19 February 2017

Innovation with business results: Not what you spend, but how you spend

Success in a highly competitive business world demands executives make their companies stand out with breakthrough products, business models and customer experience. So, how much should a company invest in innovation and where should it invest to produce real business results?
Many business executives will be surprised to learn that the answer isn’t simply to spend more dollars on R&D. Instead, true innovation leadership requires an investment focus not just on product development but more systemically across an organisation’s business processes. That’s one of the key findings from a recent IDC study that looks beyond the big myth of innovation as a process synonymous with developing disruptive products or business models, such as Apple’s iPhone or Uber’s car sharing service.

Conducted on behalf of Ricoh, the global study of 1,600 large enterprises sought to understand innovation and how it drives business results. IDC grouped companies into four categories (Leaders, Performers, Followers and Laggards), based on the extent to which they exhibited innovative behaviours tied to positive business outcomes.
Linking innovation and business results
IDC’s study revealed a strong link between innovation and business outcomes. Innovation Leaders drive far better business results than any other category, which points to their systemic approach to investments. By comparison with Laggards, the study found that over a three-year period, Leaders achieved:

41% greater sales growth
40% greater improvement in productivity
16% greater improvement in profit margins
33% greater improvement in product quality
41% more revenue from new products

However, most companies are not producing business results from their innovation efforts, according to IDC. The two main reasons for this are how and where companies invest in innovation, and how well the organisation performs on innovative behaviours.
So, which best practices help define a company as an Innovation Leader? IDC’s study offers an eye-opening and instructive look at several high-impact practices displayed by successful innovators.
Innovation investment: How much leaders spend on R&DOne of the study’s most striking findings is that contrary to common wisdom, Innovation Leaders spend 5% of revenue on R&D versus the 7% that Laggards spend. This begs the question: If the Leaders are spending a lower share of revenue, then how are they driving better business results?
The surprising answer: Innovation Leaders spend a greater share of their R&D on blue-sky projects – research outside of current products or offerings. Leaders spend 29% of their R&D on this, in contrast to 18% for Laggards. As one study respondent said: “[A driver of innovation is] how much money you spend on stuff you are not sure is going to work or not.”
percentage of budget spent on research and development

percentage of budget spent on research and development

Innovation investment: Where Leaders put their focusShould innovation focus on making big infrequent bets or small frequent bets? IDC’s study found that Innovation Leaders are more focused on making many small bets: 81% of Leaders but only 19% of Laggards take this approach. Making lots of small bets allows the innovator to iterate rapidly, learning what works and what does not, and to quickly adjust to changing market conditions. The study found strong evidence that making many small bets also leads to better business outcomes.
Leaders also focus on information technology as an innovation enabler and derive strong business results from its use. They understand that IT is fundamental to unleashing and optimising the flow of information to spark ideas, derive insight, and to enable collaboration. All these activities help drive innovation.
Interestingly, Innovation Leaders also use technology most broadly – and not just the latest technologies like mobile, cloud, and social. That approach is reflected in the top five technologies Leaders use to support innovation: Enterprise social networks, Business process workflow automation, Digital signage, Information capture/tagging/indexing/search, and Mobile device support for core enterprise applications.
Use of key technologies such as collaboration tools, enterprise search tools, and information capture and tagging produce real and striking business results. For instance, companies that effectively leverage internal collaboration tools have:

16% higher revenue growth
28% higher profit margin
90% more growth in their fastest-growing product line

Conclusion
Is it possible to innovative without disrupting a market or offering new products? IDC’s study suggests the answer is yes. It found that the most successful companies innovate broadly, creating new revenue sources and new business models, not only new products. These companies believe innovation across many functional areas is important. To achieve innovation leadership, they focus their R&D on blue-sky opportunities and use technology very effectively. It’s not how much these leaders spend but what they invest in that enables their innovation to produce superior business results.