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What happens after depends upon what happened before. If your 5S was an exercise or a part of a program depends upon management's intent. If there has been no strategic decision on the part of top management to pursue a quality transformation, then future efforts beyond the current 5S become...

Don't spend your money on a real-time solution. OEE is more of a management metric than an operational metric. It serves to highlight the both the macro conditions and their component parts. The data reflected in OEE is meant to be acted upon. The results of those quality and productivity...

I was hired to co-sign a bad management decision. I could not do it. That consultation ended poorly. Their managers continue to cost the company money, and will most likely go ahead with their bad decisions. I left with my integrity, and to my relief, they paid me for my time. For their...

Dot gain has a number of important independent variables. The surface finish and absorbancy of the paper has the largest effect. "Squeeze" or impression pressure is a large contributer. The amount of ink, the ink film thickness, on the plate is important. So is the water balance on press...

I'm trying to derive an estimate of makeready costs. If you would, please, can you share any data you have on makeready? How long in time does a makeready take before the press starts? How much paper is run before an OK? How much time and paper is spent "chasing color?" If you could simply...

How many folks use a systems model for management, as opposed to using a model based on seperate functions? For my part, I've never worked in a shop that uses the systems model. The separate functions have been managed as such, with only anecdotal or inadvertant concern for the requirements of...

I'm a quality management professional and career printer with a primary interest in color reproduction. I am looking for data taken during a press run. In particular I'd like data taken at intervals of color bars or targets to determine the variation in the run, the stability of the press, and...

I'm a certified Six Sigma Black Belt with decades of experience in printing. I will lead in transforming an organization's productions systems and processes to achieve sustainable, reliable high levels of quality and productivity. Increases of two to five percent in the profit margin are...

Why use takt time at all? Why use takt time at all? There are many print markets and print workflows. What I did in commercial printing was very different from what I did printing business forms. What particular market/workflow do you have in your shop? Commercial printing is very much...

Thank, Al Thank, Al Al, Thanks for the comment.

Thanks Erik Thanks Erik Thanks, Erik. I'd like to inform folks and offer a view from the systems level. I hope the website helps in our industry's time of need.

I just posted a website on systems in printing. There is material on strategic thinking, quality management, and the challenges facing print production systems today. Take a look, comment if you like. EyeQ Solutions Thanks, Paul Deuth Six Sigma Black Belt

It's the system It's the system I just finished doing a bit of consulting at a direct mail plant. The toner from their laser printers was tracking and smearing on their sheeter-folder lines. This happened with only some jobs, and on those jobs, only on some of the paper rolls. That's...

There will always be new technology. Suppliers compete to provide better products and solutions. Some shops will be able to afford the new technology. Some of those who can will implement it broadly. In some of those shops there will be a few operators who master it in depth. I don't know...

Further thoughts: Further thoughts: Others have made the points, but perhaps I can put things into a helpful perspective. There is variation in any system or process. Those parts which exibit variation are called variables. Variables occur in two classes: dependent variables, and...