PRODUCTIVITY/PROCESS IMPROVEMENT
Lean manufacturing is just the latest catch phrase for maximizing production efficiency
in a printing plant by instituting process control procedures and measurement metrics.
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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...
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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...
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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....
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Maintaining Equipment (or Not) During Lean Times
Scheduled maintenance can forestall major breakdowns, but demands for keeping production online, especially during peak production periods, find pressroom managers...
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8 Costly Issues
Lean strategy helps minimize printers' downtime...
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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...
More On Productivity/Process Improvement
The Real Meaning of Lean
June 2009LEAN, THE practice of continually identifying and eliminating waste in an organization, is very often a misunderstood term or phrase. Too many people associate it...
Bad Files Make Bad Folds
May 1, 2009To keep customers from wrecking folding jobs, teach them how to build files right....
Process Improvement — Work Smarter, Not Harder
April 2009OF 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, 2009To 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, 2009Jobs, business, profits, and a whole lot more! Lean is all about reducing/eliminating waste and improving productivity....
Lean Six Meets Foil Stamping
October 1, 2008How a Six Sigma team cut setup time 40% and printing costs 5% at a Taylor unit using 33 Kluge presses....
Lean Manufacturing: Slim Your Waste
February 1, 2008For the last several years, Lean Manufacturing has been growing in the printing and packaging industries. The problem printers have had with Lean is they...
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