Management information systems (MIS) lead the way for lean manufacturing initiatives and productivity enhancements.

By Tom Polischuk

Taylor—I feel there are a lot of opportunities in this area. Many companies have tried to implement generic systems in the past and realized it is too hard, risky, and expensive to customize systems designed for repetitive manufacturing to a jobbing environment, specific to package printing needs.

Other companies have chosen to build solutions in house and are now either outgrowing them, or have found them to be too expensive to maintain internally, and too difficult to modernize to new open standards so they can scale for growth and integrate new operations as needed in today’s business environment.