Setting standards. (Reality Check).(printing industry production management strategy)(Column)

It would be great if we, as an industry, could sit down and say, "If you do A, B and C, it should take this much time, produce this much waste, and your cost will be this and your profit will be that." I am asked weekly about production standards. I would like to share with you a way of establishing standards in your plant and understanding their importance. Because of the lack of published standards in the narrow web industry, my colleagues and I are currently working on a set of standards to make available to those who wish to have an outline of this nature.

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