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Lean Practices
Lean for Printers by Printers
Workshops at Printing Industries of America’s Training Center in
Sewickley, Pennsylvania
- Lean and Green Strategies for Success
- Lean Tools for Optimizing Print Production
- Lead Sheetfed Press Operation
Half Day Seminars Available for Delivery upon Request
- Real World of Lean for Printers: What is waste? Jump Starting Lean Implementation
- Lean Tool Board: Searching for Waste – Revealing Waste in the Printers Hidden factory
- Lean Tool Board: Uptime TPM - Total Production Maintenance in Print Production
- Lean Tool Board: Slash Changeover - 5S & Quick Changeover – Maximizing Press Operations
- Lead Sheetfed Press Operations: Control, Optimize, and Troubleshooting the Press Process
- Process Controls for Decreasing Waste: Quality at the Source and Error-Proofing
Custom Training
- On-site lean education and training available from “The Center for Lean Practices”
Consulting
- Lean and Productivity Assessments
- Determine current state of processes
- Value-Stream Mapping
- Identify waste in the value stream
- 5S: Sort ® Straighten ® Shine ® Standardize ® Sustain
- Achieve clean and organized processes
- Quick-Response Makeready
- Quick Changeover—Single Minute Exchange of Die
- Total Production Maintenance (TPM)
- Maintenance and Critical cares
- Process control
- Achieve official TPM Registry certificate
Publications
- Total Production Maintenance: A Guide for the Printing Industry
- Lean Printing: Pathway to Success
- Hot Topics: From the Center for Lean Practices Lean Manufacturing 2
Other Resources
- How Lean is Print by David Dodd, Ken Rizzo, and Jim Workman
- The Printer’s Hidden Factory of Waste by Ken Rizzo
- 5-S for Printers by Ken Rizzo
For more information and to schedule a consultation, contact Printing Industries of America 412-527-2403, or consult@printing.org.
Published on Thursday, March 19, 2009 (updated 06/09/2009)
