Lean Manufacturing in Package Printing Operations

By Tom Polischuk

InteliCoat Technologies began its Lean Manufacturing journey in November 2007, says Meyer Weiss, vice president, digital imaging. “After the sale of our Electronic Film Business, we were recommitted to being a 100-percent digital media business. As such, we needed a platform to drive customer value and the elimination of waste. Lean is that platform, not only in manufacturing, but throughout every aspect of the enterprise,” he says. As a vote of confidence from the State of Massachusetts, InteliCoat was awarded a grant of nearly $400,000 in 2008 to help fund its enterprise-wide Lean Manufacturing efforts.