IPMA Goes Full Throttle in Milwaukee
When benchmarking against other printers, he noted, understanding your in-plant's sales per employee number is crucial. The industry standard is $123,000, he noted, but industry leaders report $164,000 per employee. In-plants can be hindered in comparisons with outside printers, he said, due to their typically higher compensation packages. So he urged them to run leaner by reducing FTEs and hiring more temporary workers for busy times. He noted that leading in-plants tend to hire more from outside the industry to obtain the skills they lack.
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.
