Howard Smith Snapshot Plus

A unique business diagnostic designed specifically to help printers identify how to save costs and improve productivity and competitiveness.

In order to remain competitive, UK printers must constantly innovate, invest and adapt.
Howard Smith Snapshot Plus can help you to do just that.

Now the Howard Smith Snapshot has been upgraded to become Snapshot Plus.

The Howard Smith Snapshot Plus is a straightforward operational diagnostic that identifies what you need to do to achieve such excellence and shows how to save costs and change organisational culture by using lean manufacturing tools and techniques to increase productivity and boost staff morale.

The Howard Smith Snapshot Plus process is designed to provide comprehensive and insightful reporting with minimum effort from you and your staff in 2 days. Companies involved in subsequent improvement programmes have made dramatic process improvements, including:

• 50% reduction in stitching line makereadies
• 60% improvement in on-time delivery performance
• 28% reduction for sheet-fed press makereadies.

Benefits

• Benchmarking against over 500 UK print and packaging companies
• Report scoring your operations for 14 best practice criteria
• A high level process map to help you make efficiencies and savings
• Analysis of production bottlenecks and opportunities for improvement
• Identification of information bottlenecks and opportunities for streamlining
• Pragmatic explanation of how best practice could apply to your business
• PLUS - Analysis of 8 key operational measures from your data

Howard Smith Snapshot not only identifies opportunities for fast cost savings, but also provides the gateway into fresh ways of working that will have a sustainable impact on your business. For further information please contact Ryan O'Neal on 0207 915 8322 or email ryan.oneal@visioninprint.co.uk or click on the PDF in the top right hand corner of this page to download the Facts and Benefits sheet.