The FM Challenge

"Print volumes—litho and digital—have been cascading for several years," observes Clint Bolte, Principal of Bolte and Associates, in Chambersburg, Pa., "partly because the volume has migrated to the remote or departmental MFDs [multi-function devices] and in no small measure because the volume has become virtual and been absorbed in e-mail transmissions. Far too many in-plants have treated this erosion as a temporary blip and simply restricted overtime as their only cost-control initiative.