Rationally Bookbinding Processing for a Wide Variety and Small Lots of Products

Abstract

“What customers want” is personalized due to the global conditions, changes in lifestyles, and diversification of consumer needs. Further, the life cycle of the products themselves have been shortened to response to market demands. This is also probably the case with printing and bookbinding industry, since most of these service providers list “quick delivery” and “minimal lot support” as points of appeal to customers, excluding the homepages of printing companies and bookbinding companies. Under such circumstances, in post-processing stage of printing, Horizon Co., Ltd. is used for more efficient production with “short delivery time” and “small lot support” and with as little “muri, waste, and unevenness” as possible; this is described later in this paper with the help of five points.