The Printing Industries of America (PIA) has announced that it will be investigating spoilage within the printing industry. Data will be collected by means of a survey distributed to printing companies. The aim is to better understand the extent that spoilage is tracked, how statistics are calculated, and more importantly, the range and average of spoilage levels by size and type of company. In addition, it seeks to understand whether low spoilage figures correlate to other company behaviours, such as having standardized processes. “The goal is to let managers benchmark their control of spoilage,” said James Workman, PIA’s VP of the Center for Technology and Research. “They’ll soon know if their company is a leader or a laggard.” PIA also expects that the survey results will provide insight into best practices for measuring and calculating spoilage. A summary of the findings will be sent to all survey respondents and a whitepaper will be shared with member companies. A session on the findings will be featured at the 2018 Continuous Improvement Conference (April 8-11, 2018 in Chicago). Companies can visit printing.org/spoilagesurvey to participate and learn more. For more information about the survey, please contact James Workman at jworkman@printing.org.
PIA Launches Spoilage Survey
