Improving Manufacturing Performance

Competition in today's printing and packaging industry, at home and from overseas, continues to grow in its ferocity. In this relentless cost-driven environment, both large and small companies must constantly innovate and streamline efficiency to develop the capabilities they need to deliver world-class products in a global marketplace.

Continuous and rapid innovation, adding value as well as reducing costs, requires expert help based on an in-depth knowledge of process improvement in manufacturing generally, and of Best Practice in print in particular.

Vision in Print's experienced engineers can help you to achieve this by following one or more of our popular cost-effective programmes.

Tailor-made Programmes

Vision in Print has the expertise necessary to provide your company with tailored programmes to tackle the competitiveness challenge, and is able to design and deliver these in a structured, practical format that everyone in your company, from boardroom to shop floor, can understand and engage with. Our focus is on building capacity for sustainable improvement within companies, rather than short-term gains, although you can expect to see early improvements in productivity as a direct result of our involvement.

Vision in Print invites you to review our areas of expertise and then decide whether you are ready for the step change in performance that we are able to bring to your company.

Premier Snapshot - Sponsored by Premier Paper, ViP's introductory programme for printers provides a short sharp look at your operations, reviews the strengths and weaknesses of current management procedures and highlights the potential for specific improvements, with a view to improving productivity and profitability.

Operations Assessment - This diagnostic has been designed for companies that supply equipment and consumables to the UK printing insdustry. It provides the same review of performance as 'Premier Snapshot', highlighting opportunities for improvement but with specific focus on the supplier community.

Modular Improvement Programme - MIP is designed for companies with less than 25 employees, keen to engage in improvement activities but who may struggle to release staff for more than a day at a time. 'Big savings for small companies' is a good way of expressing it.

Kickstart - Kickstart is a shop floor based improvement programme that focuses on those priority improvement areas within your business that have the potential for fast returns. This programme has been designed for companies with less than 50 employees.

Picon Vision- As a supplier to the UK Print Industry, staying competitive while delivering strong customer service and high product quality is challenging. Picon Vision is a process improvement programme designed specifically for Suppliers who if Picon members benefit from a partial price reduction on the programme.

Masterclass Lite - Masterclass Lite is a practical, shop floor based improvement programme designed for companies with 50-100 employees. It achieves measurable improvements in terms of quality, cost and delivery for a specific value stream within your business

Masterclass - Masterclass is suitable for larger companies with more than 100 employees. It is a practical, shop floor based improvement programme, which achieves measurable improvements in terms of quality, cost and delivery for a specific value stream within your business.

Booster - Booster has been designed for companies of any size, which have previously participated in a ViP improvement programme. It is a comprehensive follow-up programme that builds upon tools and techniques your staff have become familiar with.

Office and Prepress Change Cycle - Office and Prepress Change Cycle focuses on streamlining the information flow for every aspect of customer service, from the initial request for quote through estimating, ordering, planning, artwork, delivery and invoicing.

Team leader Training - Managers, supervisors and shift leaders directly responsible for operations within a printing organisation are coached in developing their existing talents as well as learning new skills such as motivation, delegation, leadership and time management.

Materials Waste Reduction - This programme identifies the biggest and most easily remedied causes of materials waste, whether paper, board or film. By using simple measures and teaching your staff how to problem solve, it helps standardise processes to maintain the benefits of waste reduction and make them highly visible to employees.

5'C' Roll-out - Workplace order is the vital first step to any sustainable improvement programme. It is a key constituent to any ViP programme but it takes good structure and disciplines to roll it out across a company. This is the purpose of this product.

Lean Focused Maintenance - Many print and packaging companies are very dependent on key capital equipment (press or finishing) yet suffer from poor downtime despite planned maintenance. LFM engages operators in 'clean, inspect and lubricate' disciplines in co-ordination with on-site or off-site maintenance teams to deliver improved utilisation and output.