IPMA Goes Full Throttle in Milwaukee
The Lean Movement
Lean Manufacturing was covered by Jessica Van Dyn Hoven of Fox Valley Technical College who described her in-plant's efforts to reduce steps and barriers and become more efficient. Using value stream mapping, they looked at all steps required to complete a service, and eliminated those that did not add value. The accuracy of job delivery improved from 52 percent to 92.5 percent to date, she said.
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.
