Abstract
The dynamic business environment has changed the mindset of printing industry, which enhanced the focus towards waste management as its critical issue in printing industry. Printing waste is also leading to financial loss and developing environmental issues. This scenario motivates to perform root cause analysis of newsprint waste, which can help to reduce waste and to improve the environmental conditions. In this paper, the root cause of newsprint waste is identified using Pareto analysis and cause and effect matrix. The result shows that web break between operation and the wrong roller setting are the root causes of newsprint waste. At the end of this study, few improvement measures are suggested and implemented for validating the improvement.
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