Business Management - Productivity/Process Improvement

My orientation—should I say, my DIS-orientation—into the world of printing, in 1967, was at Kennedy Print Shop. Mr. Williamson introduced me to the shop foreman and a journeyman pressman who gave me my orientation. It went something like this:

I still shake my head in disbelief when receiving phone calls from desperate business owners—ones who have previously made a resolution to change the way they’d been doing business. “I’m tired of the same old mindless errors and working 12+ hours a day to keep up!”

By attaining PSA Certification, printers can objectively demonstrate that they have mastered the use of standards in the workflows they operate. PSA’s development began more than a year ago when professor Robert Chung of RIT’s School of Print Media surveyed standards assessment practices with international leaders.

Simple folding machine techniques for consistently better signatures.

In static sheetfed, web offset and digital printing, the term “crossover” denotes the number of impressions at which a per-unit cost advantage can be gained by switching a job from one process to another. Technological advancements continue to enable companies that offer all or most of these processes to be competitive over a wider range of jobs, extending the run length crossover between processes.

Learn how OPM, decreases turnaround time and expands their automated book solutions for major publishing customers.

To overcome the “best I can” mindset, management, staff and operators need standards and accountability—the establishment of standard operating procedures (SOPs). SOPs are only a component of what is known as “Standard Work.”

Standard Work is documented and followed best practice methods and procedures, as well as optimized operational metrics (setup and cycle times, downtime, waste and spoilage). It is developed in a team culture and followed by the people operating equipment or executing processes. Standard Work takes SOPs to a more tactical level than the ISO 9001 Quality Management Standard. Advantages of applying Standard Work include:

Management information systems (MIS) are the keystone of a successful printing operation. Senior management relies on these programs to evaluate overall company performance while production employees use the systems to communicate job data from virtually all departments, as well as to customers.

In this webinar, service providers will share:
* Critical requirements for successful implementation of MIS solutions
* How to enable unprecedented process automation - not only for internal manufacturing, but for external efforts (including Web-to-print) using JDF connectivity
* The benefits of MIS implementation: single entry, centralized data management, consistency, reduction in the number of errors, and transparent planning
* Recommendations for peers based on their own implementation experiences


Sponsored by Xerox

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In this blog, I will discuss my prediction for the future of the print production workflow powered by JDF (Job Definition Format) and how this will reshape the way companies structure their workflows—from start to finish—in the near future.

Like it or not, change is the new normal in the graphic communications industry. Whether your organization is large or small, the challenges are the same:

* cut costs,
* manage risk,
* realize profits, and
* maintain customer loyalty.