Reducing the Lead Time of Litho Printing Sample Making Process at Avery Dennison Lanka
PROJECT TITLE Reducing the lead time of litho printing sample making process at Avery Dennison Lanka INTRODUCTION Avery Dennison Lanka (Pvt) Ltd is a company, which is situated in Biyagama free trade zone. Avery Dennison is a multinational company which is spread among 60 countries over the world. The company ranked number 362 on the 2010 fortune 500 list of the largest U.S. industrial and service companies. The CEO is Dean A. Scarborough. There are around 600 employees working in the company. Avery Dennison develops, manufactures and sells products through four groups of businesses as Pressure‐sensitive Materials, Retail Information Services, Office and Consumer Products and other specialty converting businesses. This Company 's products include pressure‐sensitive labelling materials, graphics imaging media, retail apparel ticketing and branding systems, RFID inlays and tags, office products, specialty tapes, and a variety of specialized labels for automotive, industrial and durable goods applications. In Sri Lanka, products are narrowed down to labels and tags which give information about a specific garment good. Garment manufacturers can be considered as the main customers of Avery Dennison Lanka (Pvt) Ltd. Thus such tags are to be manufactured in large quantities. In order to get a satisfactory product that meets the customer need, first the samples has to be fabricated. The sample making process can be identified as the bottle‐neck of the whole litho‐printing process. Consuming money, labour and time. This report contains an analytical study of the sampling process and suggestions to make the lead time minimum accordingly. OBJECTIVE(S) Report mainly focuses on the sample production process in the company. SCOPE Among 5 different label production lines we selected lithography production method and we mainly focused on the sample making process of
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