Howard Smith Snapshot

The printing industry is fast moving, dynamic and ever changing. Competition at home and overseas is both fierce and increasing. In order to remain competitive, UK printers must constantly innovate, invest and adapt. Howard Smith Snapshot can help you to do just that.

What is Howard Smith Snapshot? A diagnostic programme, delivered by Vision in Print, which will take a short, sharp look at your operations. It gives a rapid assessment, or ‘snapshot’, of your company’s potential for improvement and its state of readiness to move forward. Once complete, the findings become your road map to the future – a route to improved productivity and enhanced competitiveness.

Vision in Print

Vision in Print (ViP) provides an industry-specific and cost-effective service 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.

Howard Smith and Vision in Print

At Howard Smith Paper Group we work with our customers to better understand their businesses and to develop new products and services that will help to improve their efficiency and productivity. With so much common ground, Howard Smith Paper Group is delighted to support ViP by sponsoring Howard Smith Snapshot – the definitive operations diagnostic for rapidly assessing the best practice credentials of your business.

Howard Smith Snapshot not only identifies opportunities for short-term cost savings, it also provides a gateway to fresh ways of working that will have a sustainable impact on your business.

The ‘snapshot’ takes one or two days, depending on the size of your company. During the assessment, ViP engineers map the current status of your processes by tracking a typical product through your plant, identifying information flows and resources used. From this model, workflow issues are identified and opportunities to reduce waste are highlighted.

At the end of the programme, observations and findings are summarised and you will receive:

A qualitative business audit based on ViP’s model of best practice
A quantification of how your business is managed, including culture, organisation and control
A review of your company’s readiness for improvement.

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An example of a high level process map from a Howard Smith Snapshot diagnostic process; looking at your current processes.

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