Patent ID: 8164777

Claim:
A system for assessing performance of at least part of at least one print production facility, the at least part of the at least one print production facility including one or more print related devices, comprising: a workstation operatively associated with the at least one print production facility, the workstation being adapted for receiving print job and print shop design parameters for a repetitive print job, wherein the repetitive print job is performed on a routine basis; a server remotely located from and in operative communication with the workstation, the server being adapted to use the parameters transmitted from the workstation for constructing and storing a model for regularly processing the repetitive print job; a display with the workstation, the display being adapted to display a number of resources to allocate for each stage of a repetitive production process based on the constructed model; an interface for operation with the workstation, the interface being adapted to receive select parameters for executing the constructed model for producing a repeat one of the repetitive print job; and, a processor being adapted for electronically performing at least one simulation with the select parameters in accordance with the constructed model, the processor being further adapted to analyze the each stage for determining a number of resources to deploy at the each stage; wherein the display further displays at least one value for indicating at least one of an optimal batch size and the number of resources to deploy.