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I would suppose he is interested in any sort of reduction in waste. Granted, I just started 5S so I don't have much to show as of yet, still in the planning stages.

Would love to get a bigger picture of that!

The lean printing study is a good read and helped me a lot to get some idea of what my company faced if we started on the road to lean manufacturing. Granted, I am an RIT alumni so I might be biased. I liked it a lot because it showed that, even though small and medium sized print companies...

I like the idea a lot, but I must disagree with it. Going about a problem very quickly is doomed to fail before it began. "1 minute blitz" is a nice catch phrase, but the idea of the Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED) never specifies to get any work down to 1 minute flat, but to under double...

One of the biggest driving factors I believe they have is that they are on full commission. They need jobs to go through perfectly in order to keep getting jobs from the customer, in turn make more money. If they customer isn't satisfied they will not come back to us, hence a lost account for...

I understand the concept of being better than the competition. I also believe in order to improve efficiency you change how people think so to eliminate waste as well as improve the process so to improve quality; turnarounds and capacities. Of course, in certain situations you are going to...

Yeah, my apologize for the potential misunderstanding of "cutting employees" I might have unknowingly pushed along, I never meant any of that. By cut I meant trying to reduce the strain you have on certain areas, whether that be process or man hours etc, that might be put on the specific...

Good before and after. Anyone else have any pictures archived somewhere with this same concept?

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Hey all: Just wanted to see if anyone out there had any archive of pictures to show an area, section before, during and after 5S was put into place. I wanted to use pictures as a tool to show my team how it can be done and how others have done it in the past. Any help would be awesome!

I like the idea of the burning platform. Its short, sweet, to the point and sadly true. The print industry is being hit very hard by the evolution of technology. Its not a bad thing for the most part, there are great concepts that can come from technology. Such can be said for a specific...

I saw David wanted to get into this topic in the QRM thread, so I thought I'd do some research on my own to see what it really was. My research brought up some broad ideas, but nothing specific. While lean is all about minimizing waste, cellular is the process to arranges factory floor...

I'm going to have to disagree with your observation here. I am with a print company and there are a total of 4 sales reps that work here. All of them get into work at 8am sharp, make cold calls and customer calls, take customers on tour of our facility, check with the production team to see...

Thanks for the tip David, it does help a bit within what issues are occurring. A big thing within trying to solve these issues are that they never happen again, but the biggest issue that ALWAYS happens again is the breakdown of communication. Of course I am speaking with our trusty paper job...

David: I like the whole idea of problem solving. It helps to prevent certain mistakes, as you said, from happening over and over again by looking at the root problem. Trying to implement that within different sections of a company is in my mind almost impossible. I'll try to show an example...

O how right you are sir. I'll just push this through to show you what I have to deal with: WhatTheyThink - Printing Industry News - Smith Print, Inc. Installs New Komori Lithrone SX29 We bought a press before fixing the workflow. Granted, I didn't make the decision so I do not know all the...

Thank you both for your input. I am glad there is this resource out there that is able to help out people like me get started. I have created a comprehensive plan in order to clean up our entire operation. Still, there a number of chores needed to be done beforehand to make this all work...

Hey all, my name is Matt and I work within a medium sized print company in Massachusetts as the "Workflow Administrator". I was hired for the basic idea of updating the company and bringing in lean concepts. The status of the company is very complex. To make it a bit simpler to understand...