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Optimizing Workflows for Seasonal Demand

Optimizing Workflows for Seasonal Demand

Within the screen printing business, we're all too familiar with the ebbs and flows of the workload throughout the year. Often it feels as if one's business is constantly pulled in one direction or another...too much business that's challenging to complete in a timely manner or too little business w...

20th Oct 2024 - Patrick Salo
Leverage Your Team for Workflow Improvements

Leverage Your Team for Workflow Improvements

Since starting on the journey of workflow improvements, we've covered many areas that you can focus on to make things better. This includes the processes themselves as well as the potential for hardware and software to assist. But one avenue we haven't covered is the people aspect of things. Leverag...

13th Oct 2024 - Patrick Salo
Using Technology to Improve Your Workflows

Using Technology to Improve Your Workflows

Up until this point we've talked a lot about improving workflows through process improvements. And there's one improvement I'd be remiss if we didn't do a deep dive on and that's technology improvements. Although most often you may be focusing on other aspects to improve your workflows, don't forget...

6th Oct 2024 - Patrick Salo
Standard Procedures to Optimize Your Workflows

Standard Procedures to Optimize Your Workflows

Another avenue for improving your productivity and efficiency is to focus on creating standard operating procedures, or SOPs for short. By doing so, you can greatly streamline not just everyday tasks, but also make unique or more difficult tasks more manageable. This can be good not just for your bo...

29th Sep 2024 - Patrick Salo
What to Focus On for Workflow Improvements

What to Focus On for Workflow Improvements

Figuring out what you should focus on when striving towards workflow improvements can be a challenging task, especially if this is your first time going down this road. It doesn't have to be hard and in today's post we'll cover some of the more common things to focus on to get you started.

One of...

22nd Sep 2024 - Patrick Salo
Improving Your Workflow

Improving Your Workflow

When looking to improve your workflow, there's several ways to proceed. It's not always a difficult effort, and often the hardest part is simply taking the first step. There are no right answers and everyone will have what works for them and their particular preferences.

One way of looking for imp...

15th Sep 2024 - Patrick Salo
Why Workflow Matters

Why Workflow Matters

Whether you're a business professional situated in an office or a print professional within a shop, workflow is something that is critical to both. How you do something, especially something that is repeated, significantly matters for several reasons. And understanding this is the first step towards...

8th Sep 2024 - Patrick Salo