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

By Tom Polischuk

Wood—If package printers recognize the huge cost reduction and profitability potential that a fully integrated system, such as DiMS!, can provide then we will be busy for a long time.

Olin—Two issues stand out: production equipment and bad solution providers. Printing businesses have a limited amount of capital to invest and production equipment is often selected over an investment in information technology. More and more, however, printing businesses are seeing the value of a Print MIS investment from EFI that can help them to improve capacity utilization and performance—to the level that the EFI solution may even replace the need for new equipment.