Cohber Press Reports 42% Overall Productivity Boost Using Performance Plus

HEIDELBERG, GERMANY—February 26, 2015—Fewer print jobs and rising costs were making life difficult for U.S. commercial print shop Cohber Press in Rochester, NY, with its 82-strong workforce and sales of US$ 14 million. Around a year ago, the management team therefore decided to try Performance Plus, the partnership-based consulting concept from Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) that aims to make print shops more cost-effective using lean management methods. The company is now seeing impressive initial results. "Performance Plus has significantly boosted our capacities, based on the same equipment and headcount, and sales have risen by 25 percent," said Cohber CEO and Owner Eric Webber. In the space of a single year, Cohber has succeeded in improving its overall productivity by an average of 42 percent and creating around 1,800 hours of additional machine capacity. The company has also achieved savings totaling U.S.$ 115,000.