Business Management - Productivity/Process Improvement

Registration is open for the fourth annual Digital Packaging Summit, which will be held Nov. 5-7 in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. The Summit is a hosted, invitation-only conference designed for senior managers and executives in label and package printing and converting who want to understand how current and future digital printing technology, software, and supplies will impact their business and investment decisions.

To build a successful workflow, hardware and software components should work together to ensure efficiency throughout the flexographic production process.

In order to maximize the opportunities the packaging industry offers, printers of labels, folding cartons, flexible packaging and corrugated need to be aware of the business challenges they face and have a plan to mitigate their impact. packagePRINTING has released a new research report that details the key challenges package printers face and provides insight into how to solve these issues.

In this webinar we’ll discuss strategies for continuous improvement that can be implemented into package printing environments.

TLMI announced the winners of the Eugene Singer Award for Management Excellence during its Converter Meeting in San Diego. The Singer Award recognizes excellence in business management measured and defined by an established set of ratios through participation in the TLMI Management Ratio Study.

Jet Label & Packaging, one of Western Canada's largest label printers, has acquired duplicates of key pieces of equipment in its primary manufacturing facility in Edmonton, Alberta. This equipment includes digital presses, flexographic presses and various converting equipment.

Packaging Personified, a flexible packaging printer and converter with locations in Carol Stream, Ill., and Sparta, Mich., has selected the EFI Packaging Suite featuring Radius ERP as its next-generation workflow solution. With the Packaging Suite, Packaging Personified plans to improve internal and customer communications and workflow.

Xeikon is marking 30 years since its founding with a series of educational blogs chronicling the history of digital printing. The series, dubbed Triple-X, will be authored by industry experts Laurel Brunner and Ed Boogaard and will run between now and November, when Xeikon will celebrate its 30th anniversary.

Ray Chambers, a well-known voice in the in-plant printing industry, explains why organizations in which top management makes unstructured, random visits to the shop floor and listens to what staff has to say, tend to be more efficient and enjoy greater morale. Though Chambers is from the in-plant segment of the printing industry, his advice can certainly be adapted for package printers and converters.

Flextec Corporation’s mission has always been to provide “Quality First Without Compromise,” and its recent achievement of full digital certification from Graphic Measures International (GMI) on its HP Indigo 8000, has reinforced that mission even further.