Work Smarter, Not Harder, in the Bindery

“We haven’t reached the ceiling yet,” adds MBO Sales Manager Jan Oldenkott. “The next stage in finishing will be book-on-demand printing.” His vision is to produce every book with a different format.

Olaf Wallner, marketing, sales and service manager at Kugler-Womako, sees two key trends—a high level of automation in industrialized economies and fast format changes with small- to medium-sized batches. He points to productivity as the dominant force, particularly in mass production. The requirements, Wallner says, are for low staff levels and high productivity, which can only be achieved with a high degree of automation.