In-plants Face New Strategic Realities
As corporate comptrollers sharpen their scrutiny, in-plants turn to insourcing, marketing and ancillary services. Still, many hardships remain for in-plants. Here’s a candid look.
Multi-shift In-plants are Rare
Private sector printers typically move to a skeletal second shift when their total employee count approaches 18. The motivation is two-fold:
1. Better utilization of an expensive press.
2. Improved turnaround times compared to a single-shift operation.
Though many in-plants never get that big, there are others with twice as many employees on a single shift. Their human resource departments, which dictate work hours, do not have a manufacturing mentality nor the requisite sense of urgency.
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