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DuraLabel PRO Printer

The DuraLabel PRO is an industrial quality thermal transfer printer for making labels and signs. It prints on vinyl tapes up to four inches in width, die cut labels and a variety of other materials.

A DuraLabel PRO printer supports the use of kaizen in a number of ways.

Kaizen starts with suggestions. The DuraLabel PRO can make labels and signs that encourage employee suggestions and inform employees concerning how to make suggestions.

Implementing Kaizen suggestions means change. Whenever a process, product, procedure, machine, tool or anything else is improved, that means something has changed. Visual communication is an important component of helping people adjust to the change. For example:

• If machine maintenance procedures change to improve machine performance, labels and signs provide information about the new procedure... right at the point of need.
  
  
• If a product's design is changed, labels and signs are used to mark warehouse shelves and bins to identify new parts that are required.
  
  
• If equipment is relocated into a more efficient configuration, labels and signs identify the new work areas.
  
  
• If new shift change procedures are implemented, labels and signs remind employees about the new procedures and help employees make the new procedures a part of their daily habits.

Successful kaizen involves feedback. You'll need to let employees know what happens with kaizen suggestions and make it clearly visible that suggestions are being quickly implemented. Labels and signs created with a DuraLabel PRO will inform employees about improvements resulting from kaizen.

From the beginning to the end a DuraLabel PRO printer is a valuable tool that aids in the success of your Kaizen program.

To learn more about the DuraLabel PRO and DuraLabel supplies, please call 1-800-788-5572 today!

Other types of labels and signs:

• Kaizen & Hazard Warning Signs
• Kaizen & Identification Labels