The Digital Project

To meet that goal, Hoffstedder says the shop had to reorganize how jobs were processed.

"We do a lot of schedule shuffling. We do job grouping to eliminate setup time," he says. "And a lot of the work that we get is reprint work, so saving those jobs helps us to save time."

Well-deserved Recognition

All of the stress was eventually rewarded when Hoffstedder's attention-to-detail management approach scored the in-plant the company's "Department of the Year" accolade—the first time the honor was ever awarded.