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"At a glance you can see every job in the shop," he points out. "We used to spend an inordinate amount of time getting phone calls and having people stand up and go search" for a job. Now student workers quickly answer customers' questions about the status of their jobs.
That's because operators input that information as jobs are running, so data is timely and accurate, unlike when using job boards and spread sheets, which are not interactive. By having this up-to-the-minute information, Goranson says, managers can quickly tell if a piece of equipment is overloaded with work and then make adjustments ahead of time, before it's too late.
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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.
