Government Printers Convene in Seattle
Getting Lean
Following Rigby, Davey Jones, of Total Excellence in Manufacturing, gave a talk on Lean Manufacturing. He is currently implementing Lean processes at California’s Office of State Publishing. He listed eight types of waste:
1. Overproducing
2. Defects/Rework
3. Movement of materials
4. Overprocessing
- Companies:
- Ricoh Corp.
- Xerox Corp.
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.
