Staying On Top, Down Under

Like on this side of the world, the fear of being outsourced by their parent organizations is strong. Digital information management and the emergence of the Internet are impacting in-plants' traditional duties there, too. The in-plants I visited had DocuTechs as well as older, one-color Heidelbergs and Hamadas. And just as our in-plant managers know the value of conferences like ACUP and IPMA, so did the managers at PPC 98—many of them from universities—feel it was important to network and listen to presentations on technology (though some of them did go golfing—again, some things are the same everywhere).