IPMA Makes a Splash in Kansas City
Waste Reduction
Generating revenue from a different angle was Alvin Griffin, of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, whose 16-employee shop saved about $64,000 by reducing its waste 90 percent in a one-year period. It did this using the Lean Six Sigma philosophy.
To determine how much waste it was generating, the in-plant identified four categories of waste:
Bob has served as editor of In-plant Impressions since October of 1994. Prior to that he served for three years as managing editor of Printing Impressions, a commercial printing publication. Mr. Neubauer is very active in the U.S. in-plant industry. He attends all the major in-plant conferences and has visited more than 180 in-plant operations around the world. He has given presentations to numerous in-plant groups in the U.S., Canada and Australia, including the Association of College and University Printers and the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association. He also coordinates the annual In-Print contest, co-sponsored by IPMA and In-plant Impressions.
