The success of your automated document factory (ADF) depends on improving efficiency, controlling costs and expanding production capabilities – all while meeting the increasing demands of tighter deadlines and strict service-level agreements (SLAs).

Pitney Bowes Workflow Solutions are designed to help you consistently produce successful, leading-edge results by applying manufacturing principles and disciplines to site management, layout design and process improvement.

Through education and professional services programs, we can help you optimize the performance of your production mail operations to increase your efficiency and improve profitability.

The result? Total operational efficiency. Enterprise effectiveness. Intelligent planning for long-term growth.

Comprehensive programs to meet your business needs
Whether you want to significantly improve your day-to-day operations, or your facility is changing – expanding, consolidating, evolving to a high-speed production environment or even addressing ergonomic concerns – our solutions can help.

Pitney Bowes Workflow Solutions cover everything from small modifications to major re-engineering efforts:

• Production Mail Management Training – sign up today: Learn leading-edge practices for the key drivers of productivity taught by industry-leading production mail managers, industrial engineers, manufacturing specialists, reliability and quality assurance managers

• ADF Productivity Solution: Enhance quality and productivity with a clear view of performance and the know-how to evaluate it

• Operations Site Assessment: Let our team of industry experts help identify areas where key improvements can reduce costs, improve worker safety and heighten the overall productivity of your mail operation

• High-Speed Integration Services: Allow us to help optimize the ROI of your new high-speed equipment and realize all the productivity gains it can provide; while ensuring it’s fully and effectively integrated into your operations

• Design and Layout Services: Get the expertise you need to ensure an optimal layout for your facility and heightened performance for your ADF operation

• System Optimization Services: Let our team document and evaluate your existing ADF process flows, production goals and performance of inserting and sorting functions, then help develop realistic throughput goals by job type

• Best-in-Class ADF Assessment: Get point-by-point comparisons of your site operations vs. prime production-mail attributes, your goals and industry best practices – with highlights for raising your operation to best-in-class standards

• Management Metric Development Services: Enjoy a one-year engagement that helps your production mail managers, support engineers and floor supervisors establish and utilize meaningful metrics to help increase productivity, lower costs and achieve service-level agreements (SLAs)

• Operations Review: Provide your management team with ongoing access to a Workflow Solutions team to assist you in carefully defining, accurately measuring and consistently achieving your goals

• ADF Management Development Program: Combine our outstanding Production Mail Management Training course with a follow-on consultation to help effectively convert key learnings into efficiencies, performance and savings for your business

• Lean Six Sigma: Introduce your organization to one of operations management’s great new innovations for a significant impact on your production-mail operation and your entire enterprise

Addressing your most important production issues
We work closely with you to design, analyze and recommend solutions to help increase the productivity of your mail operation, while aligning with key business objectives to allow you to:

• Improve cost management to pinpoint opportunities for savings
• Streamline process flows for greater efficiency
• Benchmark operations against best-in-class standards
• Achieve greater throughput from existing systems and equipment
• Integrate high-speed systems to realize heightened productivity
• Design equipment layouts for new or consolidated operations facilities
• Provide educational development for site managers

Our expertise drives productivity – and savings
Our team of industrial and architectural engineers, production mail managers, manufacturing and quality-assurance specialists brings decades of production mail experience to the design and execution of our Workflow Solutions.

We will work closely with you and your business to conduct highly structured, in-depth analyses of your systems, employees, materials, management, facilities and goals.

Our approach employs both management development programs and comprehensive professional services.