Articles

For more than two decades, Printing Industries of America has been helping the printing industry apply Lean Manufacturing concepts, total production maintenance, statistical process control, total quality management, and other quality approaches. Here are some of the articles that we’ve published in our magazine (Printing Industries of America: The Magazine) or have been associated with the Continuous Improvement Conference.

Operational Assessments: Why One Should Be in Your Future by Steve Anzalone and Jim Workman

5-S for Printers by Ken Rizzo, Printing Industries of America

Applying the Four Student Model During the SDCA Cycle by Dr. Charles Liedtke

Capturing Employee Ideas by Jim Workman, Printing Industries of America

Creation, Implementation, and Sustenance of Standard Work by Manoj Ramachandran, Label World

Critique a Printing Company in 90 Minutes by Dave Dezzutti and Jim Workman, Printing Industries of America

How Do You Build a Great Culture? by David Harding, HardingPoorman

How Healthy is Your Culture? by Jim Workman, Printing Industries of America

How Lean is Print? by David Dodd, Point Balance, and Ken Rizzo and Jim Workman, Printing Industries of America

Jump Start Continuous Improvement in Your Printing Operation by Printing Industries of America Staff.

Metrics that Matter by Kay Kendall, BaldrigeCoach

Reduce Makeready Time with Kaizen by Jim Watson, Clearwater Paper