Potential cost reductions driven by management tools at a packaging printer

摘要

Amidst the circumstances of sharp global competition in recent years, an increasing number of companies have found interest in lean management in the hope of gaining a substantial competitive edge. It has become evident that the procurement of the most novel production equipment alone would not make a company successful. Beyond state-of-the-art production machinery, another source of advantage in competition can be a value-adding process of manufacturing that focuses on customer demands as a basis of lean management. Experience shows that the competitiveness of companies applying lean management is on the rise because of the smaller costs, more productive labour, shorter lead times and higher quality. The objective of the research has been to support the introduction of lean management and the use of modern printing technologies by assessing the loss-making constituents of AR Carton Packaging Group's printing processes, offering solutions to mitigate or fully eliminate these impacts, as well as confirming the actual implementation of cost reduction. In their studies, the author have focused on promoting the introduction of the already initiated lean attitude by bettering the technological processes of printing in order to make perceivable achievements. In this manner, the interrelated projects have reinforced each other, and brought about the foreseen results. The optimal corrective actions have been determined with a step-by-step review of the technological aspects of the printing process.