Many sign shop owners are all too familiar with the frustration of a job going off the rails, leading to lost profits or the disappointment of working long hours only to find that the profit at the end of the month or year just isn’t there.

Richard Anderson is the owner of Signarama Salt Lake City.

We are in an industry that is custom by nature and will always demand process improvement to find success. The good news is that you don’t have to accept this for your business. Instead, you can explore solutions for improvement. By focusing on culture change and process enhancement, you’ll find that manufacturing efficiency and quality control will improve as a result.

For example, there are systems that exist in today’s manufacturing environments, such as Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen and Six Sigma, that aim to provide these very solutions.

We are currently using the 5S methodology in our shop, and over the past five years, we have seen significant improvements in quality, employee engagement and profit.

Read Anderson’s full commentary in Wide-format Impressions.