Business Management - Productivity/Process Improvement

As the importance of efficiency and automation increases throughout the packaging industry, it has become important for companies to benchmark their digital maturity. Jan De Roeck, Esko's director of marketing, industry relations & strategy, spoke with Packaging Impressions about the company's new self assessment tool, which provides printers and converters with a snapshot of their digital maturity progress.

In the book Toyota Culture, the authors reveal how Toyota selects, develops, and motivates people to commit to the goal of building high-quality products through a process called the Toyota Production System. Understanding the concept could be key to creating a work environment that helps a company improve faster than its competition.

Esko has introduced a strategic model to guide individual businesses to digital maturity. The Digital Maturity Model for Packaging Suppliers program is designed to equip businesses to improve productivity, efficiency, and overall profitability through a complete digital transformation.

The Japanese word “kaizen” when translated into English means “to change for the good,” or to improve. The concept of continuous improvement is well known in our industry and practiced to some extent by most companies. The challenge is to find a way of accelerating your rate of improvement to capture the advantages in quality, time, and costs it brings.

The value of a printing company stems from the result of multiple processes that when strung together create a value stream. The value stream of a company is what its customers are interested in buying. Therefore, ensuring waste is removed from the processes is essential to maximizing performance.

Netpak, the largest privately held manufacturer of printed folding cartons in Quebec, has become the first North American company to adopt the complete EFI Packaging Suite for folding carton production.

Learn how migrating to a Smart Print Shop will help you run more productively, efficiently, and earn more profits.

Learn how an in-line digital printing platform can help optimize your press room and deliver high-quality product to customers.

EFI’s MarketDirect PackCentral enables packaging professionals to streamline end-to-end workflows while providing future-ready features like SmartBox Designer, a new tool to simplify and visualize on-line 3D design.

Heidelberg Scalable Solutions are ideal for any business size, with better print offerings; better color management; and one vendor accountability. With solutions that meet a variety of customer demands in different market segments, printers can provide customers with more printed products at better prices.