U.K.’s Reach taps EAE to modernize systems

Reach (until May 2018 Trinity Mirror plc), the U.K.’s biggest newspaper publisher, has opted for a complete retrofit of all PCs involved with the EAE systems on its WIFAG web press at its Oldham facility. The Oldham facility outputs the highest page volume among the company’s numerous sites. Reach publishes 240 local and regional newspapers, including the national Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, Daily Express, Sunday Express and Daily Star as well as other newspapers and magazines.

The order for EAE involves replacing the existing PCs in the EAE system environment with eight new control console PCs, twelve section control PCs, six PCs for the EAE Info reporting and logging system, two EAE Info Remote Workstations and one EAE Service PC. Four replacement units of the various PC models round off the hardware package. On the software side, the printer will be supplied with an update to the latest version of the EAE Info System plus the newest versions of both the operating systems, namely RMOS (an OS for industrial environments) and Windows.

The retrofit work in Oldham is due to be carried out by EAE, a supplier of controls, automation solutions and software for newspaper printers, at the end of September. To ensure efficient implementation, the new computer systems will be configured at the EAE headquarters in Ahrensburg, Germany. Both the operating systems and the EAE application software will be installed and tested there prior to departing for Oldham.

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