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March 2017 | Volume 9 | Issue 2


The Magazine––ISSN: 1947-4164 Editor: Joe Deemer Publisher: Julie Shaffer


Printing Industries of America Staff President and CEO ...................................................................................Michael Makin


Printing Industries of America Board of Directors Chairman ................................................................................................................Curt Kreisler, Gold Star Printers


First Vice Chairman ....................................................................................Bryan T. Hall, Graphic Visual Solutions


Second Vice Chairman ...............................................................Michael S. Wurst, Henry Wurst, Inc.


Secretary ........................................................................................................Paul Cousineau, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.


Treasurer ......................................................................................................John E. LeCloux, WS Packaging Group


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See the Waste: Get It Gone. Keep It Gone. John Compton, Rochester Institute of Technology


Solutions Project Management: Using A3 to Get


Buy-in while Improving Your Business Jim Mullen, Nosco


Motivating the Employee: From Job


Design to Neuroscience Thomas Schoenfelder, Ph.D., Caliper Corporation


The “Process” of Culture Steve Anzalone, Idealliance


Standard Work: A Case Study in


Getting Started Michael Stoker, ABCO


Moving the Force without Forcing the Move: Initiating Lean through a


Contracted Lean Implementation Plan Kenneth Macro, Ph.D., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo


Q&A


28 Years of Continuous Improvement James A. Workman, Printing Industries of America


Roy V. Flesh, II, and Jillian Flesh-Dorrance represent the third and fourth generations to helm Flesh Co, a PIA MidAmerica member specializing in custom print solutions, including hybrid printing and variable data.


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