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摘要

The printing industry has been hearing about Lean Manufacturing or "Lean" for eight to ten years now. More recently academic institutions have latched onto it and offer training to printers in Lean. The packaging segment has been actively implementing Lean for some time, while the commercial segment, for all intents and purposes, has not. Lean seemed to be a hot item for commercial printers for a while, but it has mostly cooled off. It seems commercial printer management doesn't want a system they have to work at or develop. Typically printers want some type of pre-fabricated, turnkey, shake-and-bake system to improve their companies overnight. Printers feel they don't have time to implement continuous improvements; they have too many fires to put out. This is typical. People seem to have vast amounts of time to put out the numerous fires that occur, but they don't have time to improve their processes to prevent the fires in the first place.