Practicing What They Preach

The quick turnover of equipment at these in-plants can make life for a manager rather interesting, as Bob Ruch, national printing and production manager for Heidelberg can attest to.

"We have a moving target here—equipment can be moved out within 30 days," Ruch says. This will force jobs planned for the moved equipment to be sent somewhere else, possibly across the country to another facility. Ruch also stresses that sales and demonstrations come first at his shops, and internal printed work has to be scheduled around them.