PIA/GATF Conference to Help Printers Improve Office Efficiency

“It may surprise some people, but all of the lean concepts typically applied to production processes also apply to non-production and administrative processes. I show companies how to use Lean to attack waste in areas such as estimating, quoting, and accounts payable,” says Keyte.

The conference will again feature a series of 10 case studies in which offset and flexographic printers share the intimate details of their quality successes. The case studies focus on the real-life implementation of fundamental concepts such as lean work teams, sustaining improvement gains, value-stream mapping, 5S, and quick response makeready, and more advanced concepts of six sigma, cellular work systems, gage studies, and creating a culture of empowerment.