Benchmarking Productivity -- Pursuing Profitable Pressrooms

Productivity leaders—plants already operating at peak efficiency—also improved on waste and spoilage productivity performance from 2002 to 2004. Across the board, average planned waste numbers declined by 0.8 percent from 2002 to 2004 for all jobs generated by productivity leaders. Moreover, during the same time period average unexpected spoilage figures declined by 0.9 percent.