This informative one-hour webinar will analyze state-of-the-art solutions for workflow integration, with a focus on how these technologies can help you achieve your e-Lean Manufacturing goals. We’ll take a close and critical look at e-LEAN, JDF ticketing, PDF workflow RIPs, MIS systems and other tools that can streamline processes, reduce errors and improve quality at the source.

Your host for this event is Hal Hinderliter, leader of IPA's Workflow Team and experienced workflow consultant and educator. He'll explain how technology can overlap with Lean to create a powerful symbiosis, including several examples of leading technology solutions (including JDF-enabled MIS and production systems). Hal will be joined by Dr. Abhay Sharma of Ryerson University to discuss his recent hands-on testing of cross-vendor JDF compatibility. If you're thinking about making improvements to your workflows or equipment sets, you won't want to miss this frank and revealing program!

Topics to be discussed include:

• Current “hot spots” for workflow upgrades
• Automation: is it for processes, or for workflows?
• Reducing touchpoints to increase efficiency
• New technologies that can "lean down" your organization
• JDF for e-Lean manufacturing: What’s working? What’s not?
• A roadmap for your hardware replacement objectives

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Hal Hinderliter serves the printing and publishing industries through his company, Hal Hinderliter Consulting Services. With more than a decade of on-site problem-solving experience, his consultations help clients to increase profitability, improve quality and select new technology related to graphic arts processes. Drawing on experience garnered from working in the printing industry since 1978, Hinderliter specializes in digital prepress, workflow management, variable data and XML publishing.

He has performed technical consultations for Fortune 500 corporations, packaging and commercial printshops, publishers and reprographics companies. A prolific author, Hal is the Workflow Editor for Graphic Arts Monthly magazine. In his former role as director of the Graphic Communication Institute (GrCI) at Cal Poly State University, Hal created training programs for both industry clients and public workshops.