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Originally Posted by rich apollo
After reading DGornick's post I'm very skeptical.
I have a friend (freaky, huh?) who attended a FranklinCovey course on time management. He told me that if he followed their protocol he'd spend all of his time managing his time.
I'm hearing something like that here.
I don't want to "concatenate" any departments with prepress, cause that means more people who don't understand what I do. And they're gonna' want to talk. Give me my information - in writing - and then get out of my department so I can work.
Kaizens, and Poka Yokes, and concatenations, and Spaghetti Maps. That's a lot of catch-phrases. You explained Poka Yoke. So, what're the rest of these?
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By Kaizen I mean simply "Continuous Improvement". "Concatenation" means to combine a series of related things into one (at least in this case - used mostly in programming circles). The idea is that preflight does not need to complete its entire process prior to passing job information to planning, planning does not need to completely plan, order paper, work with outside vendors, etc. to create an imposition template, which is all prepress really needs to begin creating a proof (in many cases). We will concievably turn proofs in a much shorter period of time and conclude the project preproduction steps concurrently. A spaghetti mapping exercise involves us video taping multiple makereadies then bringing the press crews in to analyze their movements and tasks in order to create a standard improved MR time. Another part of the process is to ensure that all steps that can be done without stopping the press are performed prior to the makeready and only those that actually require stoppage are actually performed while stopped. The 'catchphrases' without the lengthy explaination would be: "Convert internal to external operations". Sorry if I over-employed the lexicon - it's just quicker - at least when everyone is speaking a common launguage...
