ATLANTIC & HASTINGS PRINTERS -- Ironing Out a Schedule
Twilley says he was sold on the TGO theory after hearing it explained at a Printcafe conference last summer. One of the key points he took away was the short-sightedness of the industry practice of scheduling around a shop's presses.
"It's a standard practice to assume your presses are the critical work centers—perhaps rightly so—and then schedule work to them," he explains. "But even if jobs are backed up in the pressroom, you may not want to spend overtime on them if that ultimately is not going to get the work out the door any faster. You could just be creating a backup at the cutter, folder or some other operation downstream. PrintFlow will show you that, so you know ahead of time and can respond accordingly. It optimizes the workflow and shows you where and when best to run a job relative to other work in the plant."
- People:
- Brian Twilley
- LLC
- Places:
- Salisbury, MD