Day 05 - 02 June 2008

IT@drupa

The computer is running, you’re connected to the network, you’re sending and receiving e-mails, and you have access to the Internet. This is quite normal for our people at drupa. But who makes sure that it all works so smoothly? Our IT@drupa: that’s the name of the manroland team. It’s a team of three: from Offenbach there is Willi Hüneke, head of IT Infrastructure, and Holger Graulich, and from Augsburg we have Claudio Schnell da Silva. The team started setting up the whole IT en-vironment quite some time ago, on May 7. It is centered around the basic network that links the computers to each other and provides the general networking ser-vices on the stand.

Impressive figures: 3,000 meters of network cables, 34 switches, 150 PCs and laptops, four wireless LANs. Six servers support our staff at the trade show. A 10 MB line provides a link to the headquarters network. Several DSL connections and two Internet cafes with 14 PCs are ready to be used by customers and staff from the Marketing Organization. IT head Hüneke explains: “Everything is running smoothly. My team is very reliable and motivated. We offer quick service and solve minor IT problems and even more serious ones on the spot, straight away. Sometimes an employee has just forgotten his password.”

On June 11, the last day of the show, the PCs will be disconnected and stored in a container for safekeeping; then after two days of dismantling, a truck will bring everything back to Offenbach.

	Willi Hüneke, head of IT Infrastructure in Offenbach (standing), is proud of his team: Claudio Schnell da Silva from Augsburg (left) and Holger Graulich, Offenbach. Großansicht

30,000 Poster Bags In Only Five Days

drupa is a real paradise - for poster collectors, too. However, it is still hard to believe that already 30,000 poster bags were handed out within only five show days. Meanwhile the colorful bags with the new manroland logo can be seen everywhere in Düsseldorf. Their owners carry them to the competitors’ stands, into their hotels and to the old town as well as to the airport from where manroland’s new name will be spread all over the world. Großansicht