This year?s Lean and Green Seminar Tour sponsors are...

Presented in partnership with local affiliate, Printing Industry Association of the South

Lean and Green

2008 PIA/GATF National Seminar Tour  

This one-day seminar leverages important concepts from Lean Manufacturing and Sustainable, Green Printing to help your company cut environmental and production waste and eliminate non-value-added activities. Combining Lean Manufacturing with sustainable practices will improve your bottom-line financial performance and help you to better serve the needs of your customers, while lessening your company?s environmental impact.

Start your company down the path towards more efficient processes and sustainable practices through the Lean and Green Seminar. You?ll learn tools and techniques which will allow you to address environmental issues at the same time you are adopting Lean practices.  Your efforts can result in lower production costs, shorter lead times, reduced water and energy use, and more efficient use of chemicals and other raw materials. Implementing Lean and Green activities can help you turn business and environmental challenges into opportunities for improved processes, less waste, better customer service, and enhanced profitability.

Attendees Will Learn

What is Green, Sustainable Printing and what drives its adoption?

What is Lean Print Production and how does it focus on eliminating waste?  

How Lean production can lead to improved environmental performance

Tools and Techniques to identify and eliminate environmental and production waste

Who Should Attend

Owners and presidents of printing companies

Operations managers

Production managers

Quality managers

Workshop Leaders

Ken Rizzo, PIA/GATF?s director of PIA/GATF consulting services and The Center for Lean Practices, has been a practitioner of Lean thinking for over 20 years, before the term ?Lean? became popular in American industry. An experienced process improvement specialist, certified in Six Sigma, ISO 9000 and Lean Manufacturing, Rizzo has over three decades of commercial, label, and folding carton industry experience, including offset press operator and various production management roles. He has led numerous 5S, setup reduction, and total productive maintenance Kaizen Event projects. And is the author of the PIA/GATF book ?Total Production Maintenance a guide for the print industry?.

Gary Jones is the director of environmental, health and safety (EHS) affairs at PIA/GATF. His primary responsibility is to assist printers with EHS issues, as well as to monitor and analyze EHS regulatory activities at all governmental levels and provide industry representation. A frequent speaker and author on EHS topics, Gary recently assumed a leadership role for the Sustainable Green Printing Partnership which is the printing industries? central clearing house on sustainable green printing initiatives.

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