12 July 2018

Looking for support to tackle challenges within your business?

The BPIF has the expertise necessary to provide your company with tailored programmes to tackle these challenges, and is able to design and deliver these in a structured, practical format that everyone in your company, from boardroom to shop floor, can understand and engage with. Our focus is on building capacity for sustainable improvement within companies, rather than short-term gains, although you can expect to see early improvements in productivity as a direct result of our involvement.

These services provide an industry-specific and cost-effective solution to help printers and packaging manufacturers to proactively improve their own productivity and competitiveness. It achieves this goal with industry support and through a close relationship with the printing industry's trade bodies, suppliers and purchasers of print services. The industry is fast moving, dynamic and ever changing. Competition at home and overseas is both fierce and increasing. In this environment, UK printers, whatever their size or printing discipline, must constantly innovate and invest to compete. Continuous and rapid innovation requires flexible and adaptable processes.

How we can help:

Productivity Healthcheck
The Productivity Healthcheck takes a short, sharp look at your operations. Applicable to companies of all sizes, it gives a rapid assessment of the key factors affecting productivity and the potential for improvement, including state of readiness to move forward.

Profit Improvement Planning (PIP)
The Profit Improvement Planning Service aims to identify operational measures that can be improved to increase productivity and in turn, business profits. Our observations and findings are then condensed into a summary action plan. The outcome positions your business on a continuous improvement journey, identifying where the business needs to focus next and what needs to be done.

Operations Assessment
The Operations Assessment is a straightforward tool which identifies what you need to do to achieve excellence. It uses lean manufacturing tools and techniques to identify how to save costs, change organisational culture, increase productivity and in turn, boost staff morale. It is designed to provide comprehensive and insightful reporting with minimal effort from you and your staff in 2 days.

Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
We teach a team of your key staff (both operational & engineering) to conduct TPM. This helps the team gain an understanding of the importance of preventive maintenance and Asset Care Systems. Introducing compliance measures shows the team how sustainable improvements are, ensuring buy-in and accountability for maintenance tasks going forward. Our approach teaches your operators how to undertake preventive maintenance of even the most complex pieces of kit so that downtime is minimised and service levels are maintained.

5C/5S Workplace Organisation
Implementation of 5C/5S workplace organisation techniques into your business can improve safety, productivity and customer perception. Using visual techniques to ensure sustainability, workplace organisation based on the 5C principles (Clear out, Configure, Clean + Check, Conformity and Custom of Practice) creates a powerful influence in promoting a pro-active and continuous improvement culture within a business.

Admin and Workflow (Process) Streamlining
This course focuses on targeting problem areas and applying smarter working practices. Backed up by the implementation of best practice, your staff can raise your company's standards to the best in the industry. Companies taking part in this course learn how to streamline their information flow, ensuring less time is wasted following ineffective processes. This makes the entire job workflow - from enquiry to delivery - a smoother, more productive and profitable process.

Materials Waste Reduction
We have put together a 5 day package aimed at printing companies who want to maximise the cost-effectiveness, efficiency and environmental status of their day-to-day operations. Our team encourage and coach your employees through a step-by-step process which will make your company a greener, more cost-effective and productive business.

Press Productivity Improvement
A Press Productivity Improvement Programme builds upon your business' priority areas, as identified in an Operations Assessment. Using the experience of BPIF Process Improvement Engineers and tools designed specifically for the printing industry, the programme will bring your business measurable improvements in terms of quality, cost and delivery.

Lean Manufacturing Implementation
We use a five-step process to help printers adopt the principles of lean to deliver higher productivity, performance and profit. Lean focuses on the removal of all waste, so that products are manufactured at a rate determined by the customer, with minimal inventory.

Modular Improvement Programmes
Our Modular Improvement Programme is tailor-made for all UK printers that employ 25 members of staff or fewer, who are keen to raise productivity and streamline workflows. The objective of the Modular Improvement Programme is to implement strong but simple process improvements via a series of 1 or 2 day modules so that companies can afford to release the staff to tackle such challenges.

Cost Rate Review Service
Our Cost Rate Review Service regularly identifies companies that are undercharging for their services. This may produce new business wins in the short term; but if that work is not properly priced due to the true costs of the work involved, it will not be sustainable over the longer period. We will evaluate your cost rates, looking at your operations in their entirety. The result will be a more robust platform for your company's development and growth, protecting you against the effect of raw materials price fluctuations and helping you operate more competitively.

Bespoke Continuous Improvement Programmes
Bespoke programmes are specifically tailored to meet your Continuous Improvement Strategy. The aim is to build on your priorities identified by our Assessments or Profit Improvement Plan to help raise your company's performance to be among the best in the industry.

If you are interested in any of the aforementioned services, click here to download the brochure or contact us on 01924 203335 and [email protected]