Lean Manufacturing in Package Printing Operations

By Tom Polischuk

At CRI, once the company moved into the new plant, Sickinger retained the services of TechSolve (www.techsolve.org), a company that specializes in identifying and eliminating constraints and log jams in business processes. TechSolve guided CRI into the Lean process starting with Value Stream Mapping, a tool that helps a company understand the process flow from order entry to shipping its product. “We then moved into Kaizen events, which helped reduce any inefficiencies in our processes,” he says.