Practical Advice Abounds at Sheetfed Pressroom Event

(Set-up and process times are relatively fixed in print production environments.)

In McNaughton & Gunn's case, they represent about 60 hours out of the original 30 days. The real opportunity in reducing cycle time is in analyzing queue and wait times.

It's easy to identify bottlenecks with excessive queues, according to Clark. Walk through the plant and spot disproportionately high WIP. The next production task is the bottleneck. For most printers, this is the pressroom followed by isolated tasks within prepress.