Sean Smyth says it's high time that we talk about the environmental impact and outsized cost of element 13 in the periodic table. I will let him tell you what the "faster horse fallacy is."Īnother great debate is aluminum versus aluminium, and more importantly, the use of it in the print industry. If you turn this productivity analysis around and look at it from a development perspective, you begin to understand why it's so important to talk (and listen) to customers about outcomes such "produce more output" instead of pushing solutions in terms of "speeds and feeds." That is Dan Adams' message in his latest chapter in our Growth and Innovation Series. The ultimate measure of productivity depends on the mix of business of the buyer as Pat McGrew discusses in " What do we mean by productivity?" Then consider that the productivity the buyer of an inkjet press actually experiences is not just a function of the running speed of the press, it is also about the up-time of the press and a host of other factors. Are the sheets in portrait or landscape orientation?įactor in that some presses run at multiple speeds and that you may not get the top quality at the top speed, and the math becomes very complex.As simple as this sounds, even this measure can take you down a rabbit hole: This is a function of the imaging speed of the press times the number of letter images that can fit across the web, or sheet width, of the press. The simplest interpretation of inkjet productivity is the number of letter sized images produced per minute. I do not think it means what you think it means.” Substitute " Inconceivable!" with " Productivity!" and that's our theme for this week. Inigo Montoya, my favorite character in " The Princess Bride," says, " You keep using that word.
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