This revised and expanded edition of Total Production Maintenance: A Guide for the Printing Industry presents a guide, complete with checklists and other resources, to help printers implement a formal program for achieving optimum equipment effectiveness, resulting in reduced downtime and maintenance costs while accelerating plant production throughput. It proposes a series of common-sense measurement, operational, and continuous improvement systems designed to optimize the entire graphic arts production process, from prepress to shipping. Access to an ftp site containing maintenance, calibration, and process control checklists which can be customized for job planning and design, plate inspection, maintenance requests, etc., is included.

From the Preface: “...Having brand-new equipment and the best materials that money can buy are no guarantee that a printing company will produce a consistently high-quality product. To help the printer ensure production of quality jobs and meeting customer expectations, there must be a series of operational systems in place...”

Target Audience: Maintenance, production, quality, and process control personnel; operations, plant, and engineering managers; pressmen; consultants; and others concerned with systematic maintenance in the printing industry.

Table of Contents:

Total Productive Maintenance

Equipment Maintenance

Total Prepress Maintenance

Statistical Process Control Tools

Recognizing Production Workflow Bottlenecks

Best Practices

Quality Assurance of Print Materials

Process Control

Quick-Response Makeready

Guidelines for GATF TPM Registry Audit Program

Appendix: Checklists

Index