Lean Manufacturing in Package Printing Operations

By Tom Polischuk

Getting started

There is a variety of reasons why companies will begin a such an effort. For CRI, it was the opportunity to incorporate Lean Manufacturing into a new facility expansion about seven years ago, reports George Sickinger, president and CEO. “We were embarking on building a new facility and wanted to incorporate Lean Manufacturing into the new facility. We had an ideal opportunity to implement the process from building design through the manufacturing process; it was the right thing to invest in,” he says.