I’m Brian Baarman from Holland Litho Printing service, Executive Vice President of Finance and Administration. 

In regards to getting the most out of an MIS System, I wrote a report to measure Pressmen’s productivity.  On that report lists their average impressions per hour during run time and during paid for time, it also lists how many make readies they do as opposed – compared the number of plates and how fast their make readies are compared, and it’s all in a bar graph, so it’s really easy to see. 

So you have three Pressman, one bar graph with their make readies; three Pressmen and another one with their run times and so on and so forth.  And it also shows – another graph that shows how much time they’re not in make ready run. 

I wrote this report because of some of the stuff that I heard at the NAPL Conference last year.  I started posting that report in the Press Room and I got a variety of responses from different people, but I had one Pressmen on third shift call me at like 1:00 in the morning.  And he was mad that I was posting this on the wall because he didn’t want everybody looking at his results.  And I was okay with that that he was made at me about that because I knew it would motivate him and sure enough, in about a week, maybe a little bit longer than that, I saw his productivity double. 

And I’ve seen this same thing with a similar report in a binder where people are accountable, they know that we’re looking at the number and they see the numbers on the wall, and their productivity is rising because of that.