Manufacturing

A plant prints in two places at once: the production floor and the offices around it.

The workplace

How printing fits this workplace

Work instructions, operational paperwork, and administrative documents do not belong on the same device in every facility. We place and configure printers for the areas that actually produce those documents.

Floor devices and office devices are planned separately when the documents and the people using them are different. The setup follows how that plant is organized.

01 Printing for production and administrative areas
02 Placement that follows how the floor is organized
03 A consistent setup across the departments in scope

On site

Where the devices belong

Production floor
Devices for work instructions and the paperwork the floor produces, placed where that work happens.
Operational stations
Placement that follows the stations where those documents are used, rather than a single printer for the whole plant.
Plant offices
Administrative printing for the departments around the floor, planned separately when the users and the documents differ.

Documents

What this workplace prints

A plant prints work instructions and operational paperwork on the floor, and ordinary business documents in the offices around it. Those streams are planned separately when they serve different people.

Work instructions
The sheets a production team prints and uses at the point of work.
Operational paperwork
Forms and records produced on the floor as part of the day's work.
Station documents
Printing kept next to the stations that actually use those documents.
Office documents
Administrative printing for the departments that sit around the floor.

The work

How the setup is scoped

The setup follows how the plant is organized. Floor devices and office devices are not assumed to be interchangeable.

01 Separate floor and office
Identify which documents belong on the floor and which belong in the offices.
02 Follow the stations
Place devices where the work instructions and operational paperwork are used.
03 Connect the teams
Give the departments in scope access to the devices they are meant to use.
04 Hold one configuration
Keep the devices in scope configured consistently so the plant is not running one-off setups.