The amount of time spent finding news ways of doing things these days, almost outweighs the doing itself. I will almost take it as a compliment, which I will clarify later, as we started trying automate the oldest and most skilled part of our workforce - The Bindery. They do a variety of jobs, including, die cutting, punching, scoring, creasing, folding, counting of all the printed products we offer. The skepticism ran high as we brought in a few new pieces of equipment. We trained them extensively and gave them plenty of time to play with the buttons and figure out what all the new machines could do. We did not offer them a copy of Who Moved My Cheese but we alerted them a couple of months in advance that change was coming and to be fair they are pretty used to things changing on a regular basis, because we are always trying to improve. There was plenty of head scratching and the customary thumb and forefinger on the chin as the trainer put the new machines through it's paces, he came back for several days until everyone was comfortable in their understanding of what all the machines should be able to do on a regular basis. They also felt comfortable enough to show a few others what it could do as if to say I got it and it's going to work. Change is hard, new technology is difficult for an older generation, but if you give them time and be patient, you can get some old dogs to do new tricks and almost get a wry smile from them. I guess the biggest compliment you can get as an owner is when one of your dyed in the wool employees stand back for a minute, when you ask them what they think and their response is : That's pretty good, well I guess you are getting somewhere
Print Tip of the Day
If you need it on a hard deadline, please plan the job a little earlier, all printers are willing to pull you out of a jam, once in a while, but the serial deadliners are just not as well organized
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