Contemporary Graphic Solutions Gets Performance Boost

Reilley admitted there was a good deal of skepticism initially among the press operators regarding the prospect of reaping meaningful performance increases. It took only one training session for the press crew to see the value in a program that doesn't stress working harder, but rather, smarter.

"The value stream mapping event that we did to kick off the program was really exciting," he said. "To see the pressmen understand the troubles that we go through up front, in terms of getting information from the customer and getting an accurate job ticket out to the press…they can see it wasn't (a case of) them not doing their job. In addition, the production planner in the meeting was excited and understood that giving bad information to the press impacted the pressroom's performance and their efficiency.