Business Management - Operations

U.S. GPO Acting Deputy Director Herbert H. Jackson, Jr. appointed James R. Ives as the Acting Inspector General for GPO. Ives has more than 25 years of inspector general experience, including nine years of senior executive experience.

Every year, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration announces the most frequently cited workplace violations for the year. In order to provide more definitive direction for printing operations, the top 10 violations for printing were isolated from OSHA’s violation statistics.

William L. Boesch, Jr. has been named the acting CFO of the Government Publishing Office. In this role, Boesch will administer and guide policy and oversight of the agency’s financial strategies and administrative support systems, personnel and operations.

Variables are the enemy of consistent, predictable and repeatable color.

Cross-training your in-plant's operators can help you keep productivity up, even when staff is down.

Sussex, Wis.-based Quad/Graphics is acquiring LSC Communications, of Chicago, to create a combined $8.1 billion, publicly-held company. The deal is the result of a whopping $1.4 billion all-stock transaction, which includes the refinancing of LSC Communications' debt.

Agfa Graphics has announced that it will be closing its 250,000-sq.-ft. offset printing plate manufacturing facility in Branchburg, N.J., by the end of this year in order to optimize its global production capacity and supply chain efficiencies. The plant closure will impact 125 workers.

I recently moderated a panel discussion by in-plant managers who shared their thoughts about why they are front runners and how they showcase their wins.

The cloud-hosted, vendor-agnostic solution empowers printers to accurately and quickly gather high-value data from across their operations to increase profitability and productivity.

After Guy Gecht informed the EFI board of directors in July that he intended to step down as CEO, the search was on for a successor. Today the company announced it would be William (Bill) D. Muir, formerly COO of Jabil.