← Secure Identity
Stage 3 · Production
IDmetrix® Production Management (PM)
Runs the personalization floor: queues, printers, encoders and the status of every card.
Production Management automates and controls personalizing, encoding and issuing physical and digital credentials — from receiving approved data out of the workflow through to card printing, chip encoding and delivery to the holder. It is the system an operator actually works in on the production floor.
Every card tracked from blank to issued
Capabilities
Key modules
- Card design studio
- Visual card layout designer: logos, photographs, barcodes and QR codes, dynamic fields and security features such as ghost image and microtext.
- Data import and validation
- Import of cardholder data from CSV, Excel, LDAP and databases, with field validation and mapping to layout variables.
- Print queue management
- Job queue management with priorities, batch printing and distribution across printers and locations.
- Card encoding
- Magnetic stripe, MIFARE, DESFire, contact and contactless chips, with cryptographic key and application writing.
- Printer management
- Support for multiple printer families, with status monitoring, remote management and drivers.
- Card lifecycle tracking
- The status of each card — issued, activated, reissued, revoked, lost — with full operation history.
- Inventory management
- Supply tracking for blank cards, printer ribbons, chips and consumables, with low-stock alerts.
- Digital ID issuance
- Issuance to mobile wallets, with QR or URL generation for activation.
- Security and audit
- Action logging, role-based access, data encryption and reprint limit control.
- Reporting and analytics
- Issuance volumes, production time, print errors and consumable usage.
Sequence
Architectural models
- 1Central issuanceAll cards printed at one secure personalization bureau and delivered by courier or post. High security, tight quality control, economies of scale — the model for national IDs, passports and bank cards.
- 2Distributed issuanceCards printed locally, in offices or at registration desks, on networked printers managed centrally. Instant issuance, convenient for corporate badges, student IDs and access cards.
- 3HybridDigital IDs issued instantly through an app, physical cards printed centrally or locally as needed.
Stage 3
Also in Production
The other IDMS components at this stage of the lifecycle.