Press & Binder Setup Reduction: The 10-Step Process for Reducing Makeready Time (Seminar Session) (R40)
In today’s competitive climate, reducing press and binder makeready time is critical to lowering your costs and increasing customer value. Setup reduction is not simply a process of working faster, but rather a structured methodology for analyzing and...
Fee: $125 (counts as 1 seminar towards a Value Package Plan) View Pricing
Speaker: Malcolm G. Keif
Description:
In today’s competitive climate, reducing press and binder makeready time is critical to lowering your costs and increasing customer value. Setup reduction is not simply a process of working faster, but rather a structured methodology for analyzing and reinventing your makeready process in several strategic ways. This session will provide a 10-step roadmap for setup reduction, a process often referred to as SMED (single minute exchange of dies). Immediate ‘take-home’ tool: Apply SMED principles in your printing company and cut your press or binder makeready time by as much as 50%...or more!
Room S503a
You Will Learn:
- Prerequisites to a setup reduction strategy
- A 10-step process for improving your makeready time
- Techniques to analyze your pressroom or bindery makeready activities
- Common mistakes that slow down a makeready and how to minimize them
- Ways to organize your tools and supplies to minimize setup time
- Techniques & equipment modifications that will improve your makeready time
Who Should Attend:
Pressroom and Bindery Supervisors, Plant and Operations Managers, Press and Bindery Operators, Owners/CEOs, Quality/Lean Managers
Business Categories:
Lean Management and Manufacturing, Management, Production
Malcolm G. Keif, Professor
Cal Poly State University
