Graphic Products' Sponsors Shingo Sweepstakes

Graphic Products, a leading supplier of label and sign printers, is one of the sponsors of the Shingo Sweepstakes, a lean manufacturing sweepstakes that started on November 6th and runs through the end of April 2008. $25,000 in prizes will be given away.

No purchase is required to enter the sweepstakes.

The purpose of the sweepstakes is to promote lean manufacturing and the Shingo Prize. The Shingo Prize is regarded as the premier manufacturing award recognition program for North America. The Shingo Prize promotes world-class business and manufacturing processes that will enable organizations to achieve perfection in quality, best cost, and 100 percent on-time delivery to fulfill the customer experience. It also promotes the sharing of "True North" core business and manufacturing processes for continuous improvement. The Shingo organization recognizes research and applied materials that support the vision and mission of the Shingo Prize. The Shingo Prize achievement criteria provides a framework for identifying and evaluating world-class manufacturing competence and performance.

Graphic Products is not in the business of selling lean manufacturing products. But, having seen the benefits of lean manufacturing they have been offering resources to help their customers improve business performance through lean manufacturing techniques. Graphic Products offers a number of free lean manufacturing guides. No purchase is required to request any of these guides:

5S Quick Start Guide

5S Standard Color Coding Guide

Kanban Quick Start Guide

Kaizen Quick Start Guide