Description

Advanced Automation

Learn how to maximize the functionality and production capacity of your automatic shop.

In this advanced workshop, we’ll help you dial in automation and take the fullest advantage of the equipment you currently utilize. From shop layout to flow, screen making to press setup, printing efficiency and special effects, post press and troubleshooting, MADE 2 ROQ will prepare you for the next mountain to climb in your shop.

Who’s MADE to ROQ for?

• The business owner growing an automated shop wanting to optimize production and prioritize overhead investments.
• The production manager looking into efficiency gains in processes and equipment for the future.
• The experienced press operator looking to new skills or expanding their knowledge to take on a larger role in the future.

Thursday Morning

• Pre-Press
• Advanced Screen Making
• Mesh Counts, Selection and Tension
• Artwork Parameters and Separations for Multi Screen Grayscale
• Emulsion and Coating Techniques
• Hands On – Multi Screen Grayscale Technique
• On Press Calibration and Production

Thursday AFTERNOON

• Workflow
• Shop Layout and Workflow Presentation including order of operations process, visual management systems, screen and ink production flow, staging and packaging.
• Interactive Shop Tour of Printed Threads in Production
• Hands On – Strategy and Techniques for Wet on Wet Printing
• Art Creation and Separations
• Production Planning, Screen and Ink Selection, Print Order, Squeegee Selection
• Press Setup, Under Base and Flash/Stampinator Parameters, Dialing in and Optimizing Production

Friday Morning

• Hands On – Special Effects Production
• Design and Artwork Theory, Separations, Pricing and Sales
• Press Setup, Print Modes and Functionality,
• Setup and Refinement for Production
• Printing

Friday Afternoon

• Measurements and KPIs
• Production Metrics, Manual and Automated Tracking Tools
• Shop Performance Management
• Hands On – Advancing Automation
• Advancing and optimizing automation in, ink making, screen reclaim, value added decoration such as tags and heat transfers.