How to improve the print process profitably
Issam Luftiya, director of global sales and marketing at Baldwin Vision Systems, spoke at the Shift_019 briefing on 'Procedure improvements – A pathway to profitability.' Speaking well-nigh the primal points for a profitable business in terms of quality, profitability, improvements and a defect-free workflow, he suggested the illustration of an aeroplane flight checklist.
Luftiya started by mentioning the importance of balancing the three aspects for conducting a successful business, "You have to command your costs, increase profitability and abound your business." He explained that in order to produce a quality product, ane needs to ensure fewer defects, which should optimize quality and minimize waste and thus lower the cost of overall production.
Using the analogy of an airline to explain to the audition that before investing in a plane, you demand to have the right people for maintenance, cabin crew, investment in spare parts, a quality bank check squad, and airline staff to ensure a good flying feel. Investing in a new applied science is no different. The new and sophisticated controls that are meant to brand a process better are oft defeated because of the inability of operators to decipher the information. When employees are faced with such challenges, they abandon the technology and go back to what they know.
Lutfiya explained that the reason why a engineering science fails is the same which makes a plane crash. By and large, it is the minor human errors that add upward to the major glitches. The lack of advice between operators, ongoing training, leadership and maintenance, ignoring evolving business needs, failure to make the appropriate purchase-ins and when trained employees exit the company to work for competitors are some of the areas that must be looked into. He explained the six sigma process improvement steps to overcome these errors – first, defining the problem in terms of targets such as analyzing why a customer is unhappy and how defective print products passed on to their converting lines resulted in plush rework and loss of customers. 2d, measuring the number of jobs with defects, material with defective impress and cost of rework. 3rd, analyzing the type of defects, the reasons behind them and the strategies to avoid them. Fourth, improving operator training, hiring expertise, material substitution, engineering science, automation and advice. Fifth, decision-making baselines, document standards, monitoring progress, minimizing waste and addressing waste.
Some other process according to Lutifiya is to recognize the critical defects and place the root cause of those defects before eliminating them. Inspection systems are a very powerful tool to find the defects. Another point made by Lutifiya was to ensure that there are absolutely no defects in a printing process. That is where automated inspection systems come handy. Nevertheless, he also pointed out that the inspection systems are but as practiced as the printers or the operators. In order to get the most out of the technology, one has to shut the loop. Ane must use the data from the print procedure that helps understand where the defect occured, in which shift and how did that defect turn over to the operators in the next shift.
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