Productivity/Process Improvement Articles, News and Information : Printing Impressions

Step by Step - Standard Work Reduces Errors & Downtime

To overcome the “best I can” mindset, management, staff and operators need standards and accountability—the establishment of standard operating procedures...
Paper Inventory Management: A Lean Approach

AN IN-PLANT is a perfect candidate for applying Lean production practices. We are essentially a manufacturing environment that uses multiple...
Chicago Tribune Recycles Production Waste and Cuts Costs

The Chicago Tribune has reinvented the way it gets rid of its post-production waste by implementing a recycling...
Get Up to Speed: Improving Your Print Management Skills

Manufacturing. That's a difficult concept for some print managers to grasp. As proud as we all are of our arts...
MIS to Workflow Integration : Getting Production to Flow

JDF's potential is yet to be realized, but there is another pathway for integrating MIS and production—shop floor data collection...
Rex Three : Technology Provides Edge

Rex Three's customers benefitted from exceptional service and faster turn times on projects due to its istallation of LithoTechnics...
The Real Meaning of Lean

LEAN, THE practice of continually identifying and eliminating waste in an organization, is very often a misunderstood term or phrase....
Process Improvement — Work Smarter, Not Harder

OF THE MANY insights that stand out in Eli Goldratt’s book, “The Goal,” one of the most memorable is the...

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The Real Meaning of Lean

June 2009 From In-Plant Graphics

LEAN, THE practice of continually identifying and eliminating waste in an organization, is very often a misunderstood term or phrase. Too many people associate it...

Eight Costly Printing Issues - Lean Strategy Helps Minimize Printers’ Downtime

May 1, 2009 From American Printer

When you think of waste, what comes to mind? Many printers don't think beyond paper—makeready, roll slab, roll damage, running waste and so ...

Process Improvement — Work Smarter, Not Harder

April 2009 From Printing Impressions

OF THE MANY insights that stand out in Eli Goldratt’s book, “The Goal,” one of the most memorable is the plant manager’s frustration with a...

A Workflow Overhaul

May 1, 2009 From In-plant Graphics

To eliminate production inefficiencies, Aflac's printing subsidiary, Communicorp, restructured its customer service methodology and installed the latest high-speed equipment....

What’s Lean Mean?

February 1, 2009 From packagePRINTING

Jobs, business, profits, and a whole lot more! Lean is all about reducing/eliminating waste and improving productivity....

Lean Manufacturing: Slim Your Waste

February 1, 2008 From packagePRINTING

For the last several years, Lean Manufacturing has been growing in the printing and packaging industries. The problem printers have had with Lean is they...