Printers share challenges and bright spots in the finishing department.
In the 1984 book “The Goal,” Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt outlined the theory of constraints (TOC), a management methodology that helps to identify and remove limiting factors. The TOC process involves identifying the constraint, improving the constraint, subordinating everything else, elevating the constraint, and repeating the process. It is used across a range of industries to eliminate bottlenecks.
For commercial printers, this methodology may be most useful in the finishing department. This renown …