INDUSTRY VISIT OF “COLOUR GRAPHICS”

GROUP 6Hitendrasinh Zala

Ketan ChanganiRuchi Gattani

Shoaib Qureshi

CONTENTS

Colour Graphics – The Factory Raw Materials Required Machinery Process Layout Scheduling

COLOUR GRAPHICS – The Factory

Location – 474/1 A.B. Road, Rajendra Nagar, Indore

It is a printing firm which was established in 1994 and is into offset printing and packaging

Raw Materials Required

Printing sheets Printing ink Kerosene Fevicol Offset plates

Machinery

Machine Name Quantity

Exposing Machine (copies positives into aluminum sheets)

1

Punching Machine (distinguishes various designs in a single sheet)

1

Literature Folding Machine (mainly used for pharma products, max 32 folds)

2

Catch Cover Pasting (produces envelopes etc.) 1

Box Pasting Machine (produces boxes) 2

Machinery

Machine Name Quantity

UV Processor (coating of UV to produce gloss) 1

Lamination Machine (laminates) 1

Cutting machine (cuts paper into even shapes) 2

Printing machine (Single color) 1

Delta Machine (4 color) 1

KBA’s Planata Machine (7 color) 1

Machinery

Process

Designing positives Developing from positives to

aluminum plates Cleaning from chemical Plates ready for further printing Simultaneously paper is cut for

printing

Process

Goes to lamination machine or UV machine (if required)

Punching /cutting machine (if required)

Pasting machine (if required) Packing in corrugated box and

transported

Scope of Improvement

Inspecting the sheets before printing Few sheets are found defective in the

final lot It introduces wastage of costs of ink,

electricity, labor etc.

The storekeeper can check defective sheets beforehand

Scope of Improvement

Quality variation due to miscommunication at times in the factory Job sheets may lead to

miscommunication due to lack of training

Proper training should be provided to the workers

Scope of Improvement

UV processor machine is rarely used & occupies place in the inventory This reduces the amount of inventory

which can be stored

It can be kept near the generator room which will be more convenient

Scope of Improvement

Movement is blocked at times because sheets are laid for drying

It blocks a walking path & may even harm the prints

A new construction can provide a better place for drying as the campus is spread over 1 acre

Layout

Colour Graphics follow process layout.

Scheduling

It follows Earliest Due Date (EDD) scheduling mechanism.

THANK YOU….