Quality Management of Packaging and Printing--Speaking Truthfully (2)

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Starlight Group is a major printing company in the industry. Here are some of the most effective ways for Starlight Group to manage quality. Perhaps, in some people's eyes, this approach may be too extravagant and it is worth the money.

In Starlight, the original proofing is also the use of a traditional round flattening proofer. Due to the difference between the proofing and actual machine direction and various production parameters, it is sometimes impossible to keep up with proofs in mass production. A four-color machine was specially used for proofing, and the investment was great, but it received very good results, especially in the packaging field.

From our experience, it is very important to use the same materials, the same ink, and the same production parameters when playing in mass production. It is a guarantee that the product can be well reproduced. These parameters must be kept intact when proofing.

It is also necessary to pay special attention to the fact that a color sample that has not been surface-treated must be reserved for color production during mass production. Too many companies suffer from this failure. Because of the surface color samples, the color will have different degrees of change, with the surface treatment of the color with the color, so that the printing staff is not only difficult to do, printing and prone to color cast.

To solve the problem of paper falling powder, Starlight has its own unique method. Starlight uses a lot of five-color machines and six-color machines. Generally, the first unit is used to press powder, which is very useful for quality improvement and efficiency improvement.

In addition, the factors affecting quality and efficiency include the maintenance of the equipment (especially the two-shift system will be pushed, so the clear responsibility of the maintenance of the machine is very important), the use of old ink control, the main material of the paper The quality should not be too bad. The use of the worst materials will not necessarily reduce the cost, but it will definitely reduce the production efficiency (The print speed of 12,000 sheets/hour will become only 6000 sheets/hour, open and close, and print. Colors are messed up. The increase in scrap will only increase costs, and it will even lower the customer's confidence in Indian companies. Therefore, the quality cost must be comprehensively considered to have the best benefit.

The quality of printing in a printing company is closely related to the management of the printing plant personnel. The position of the chief of the printing press is a technical position with high experience and technical requirements. The loss of personnel and frequent replacement of the captain's position will definitely affect the quality of the printing process. A quality stable printing company, production personnel, especially the backbone of technical management must be relatively stable. However, a considerable number of business executives believe that the salaries of outstanding technicians are too high. Therefore, frequent replacements of personnel are required. Everyone knows that excellent technicians produce more orders for enterprises each month, and that the cost of an order is much higher than their high salary. .

The salary level of the quality management personnel must be higher than the average level of the employees. This is the most true embodiment of the emphasis on quality, and is also a reflection of the higher requirements for quality management personnel.

Starlight's boss describes the status of the Quality Department very image: You are all police! Quality management personnel not only check and control the quality of products, but also have the responsibility of proclaiming quality work.

Starlight features

1. Establish and manage product data cards

To establish and manage product data cards, some companies did not do this, and some companies did not complete well. The following describes a better approach.

First of all, the data card number of each product is unified and unique, so the number must be managed in a unified manner; secondly, the content of the data card must include the following aspects.

(1) company number and customer number (or material, this is the product's ID number.
(2) Materials.
(3) Open material size.
(4) Product size.
(5) Process.
(6) Typesetting.

If the data card is done well, then returning the single card can improve efficiency and it is not easy to make mistakes. In particular, the new Quality Requirements column in the data card is very unique. In this column, the customer's special quality requirements are indicated. In addition, the detailed record of customer complaints on the data card can avoid the same mistakes.

Every day in the production meeting, most companies have their own meetings for the production and quality departments. Starlight's approach is very unique. Every day, the post-process supervisors' meeting and the printing department's captain's regular meeting all discuss the issues of quality and production. They are standing in a meeting and the meetings are short and can be quality first. The content is notified, and the quality part is presided over by the quality manager or supervisor to inform about the quality problems and customer complaints that occurred on the production line on the previous day, talk about how to avoid the recurrence of similar problems, what problems should be paid attention to in each process, and how to put it into place. Although the quality issues on the production line are to be dealt with immediately, it is also necessary to sum up and summarize at the daily meeting. The discussion that everyone spoke freely can receive very good results, but it is necessary to avoid being in a formal situation. After the meeting, the Quality Department has the responsibility to supervise the implementation of various measures.

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