Business Management - Productivity/Process Improvement

Let us all bow our heads in respectful silence as we say goodbye to using run lengths as the primary indicator as to whether a job will be produced on a sheetfed offset press or a cut-sheet digital printer. Say a prayer and take a moment to reflect on the benchmarks of yesterday...

“The Seven Basic Tools of Process Improvement” from PIA is a 75-minute program that covers tools from Pareto diagrams to run charts.

Quad/Graphics projects the cost of a proposed 60,000-square-foot addition to its building in Franklin, Wisconsin, to be $3.2 million.

How commercial printers can tap into new revenue streams with the label market, specific label inks, coatings, substrates and finishing

Procrastination is a paralyzing quandary that many of us deal with on a daily basis in business. It's easy to become sidetracked, even immobilized, choosing to deal with non-essentials that require little commitment or perseverance, rather than face opposition or confrontation.

There are any number of narratives that can illustrate the beauty and genius of what Robert Keane hath wrought. But the founder of Cimpress, the parent organization behind Vistaprint—a realized vision that for the last 20 years has provided Do It Yourself marketing materials to the micro business community—managed to encompass everything the Dutch-based global firm stands for in a span of less than three minutes.

Following a process that started in February, Muscle Bound Bindery has completely rebuilt its casing-in production line.

The Printing Industries of America recognized Cary Ripsch of The Ovid Bell Press (The OBP) with its Managing for Improvement Award.

Using technologies from Ricoh, over 90,000 photos were returned to their owners following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

The next time you feel that your jobs are too complex to automate, or that your job mix is too broad to automate, think again. Perhaps you don’t have sufficient volume for it to make sense, but you certainly don’t need to have 1,000 jobs a day to justify it. And if Standard Register can make this work in their high-complexity, high-variety, high-volume world then perhaps something like this could work in yours.