George Donaldson 
Group Continuous Improvement Manager
Chasing 
the 
Lean Transformation
Who We Are 
& 
What We Do
Newsprinters
What we do
How we do it 
Raw Materials (Paper, Ink, Font and Plates) Preparation Plate Making 
Newslogistics Post Press - Packaging Printing Presses Paper Handling
Newsprinters Vision
The 
Newsprinters 
Road Map
NCIS 5 Year Road Map 
2010 
NCIS - TPM 
Executive Team Strategy 
Sessions 
Planning and Pilot Sessions 
Workshop Development 
2012 
TPM – Phase 2 
QP4 & QP5 Workshops 
Site Awareness Sessions 
Policy Deployment – Pilot 
NVQ BIT - Pilot 
2010 2011 2012 2013 
2011 
TPM – Phase 1 
Site Communications 
Ink Room, QP2 & QP3 Workshops 
Group Visual Standards & Audits 
2014 
TPM – Phase 4 
QP1, QP11 & QP12 Workshops 
Kaizen Workshops 
SHINGO Challenge @ Eurocentral 
2014 2015 
2013 
TPM – Phase 3 
QP6 & QP7, QP9 & QP10 Workshops 
Policy Deployment – Group 
NVQ BIT – SHINGO Pilot @ Eurocentral 
2015 
TPM – Phase 5 
Group Standards 
Management Training 
Shingo Start @ Knowsley
The Shingo Journey 
September 2010 May 2012 July 2014 
August 2014
Tools 
Principles 
Systems
W. Edwards Deming
W. Edwards Deming
15 
The Newsprinters Way
Newsprinters Continuous Improvement System
Systems That Encourage The Right Behaviours
Systems Where Everyone Is Engaged
Holistic Systems 
Total Productive Manufacturing 
Total: All Staff - All Business Partners - All Levels – All Committed 
Productive: All Working together - All Driving Continuous Improvement 
Manufacturing: All Processes - All Activities - All Equipment
Systems Where Everyone Is Trained 
SharePoint, PDCA & Process Mapping 
Problem Solving, FMEA & KANBAN 
Workshop 1 – 3 Review 
Project Planning, Change Control & SMED 
ISO Systems, Internal Audits & Visual Standards 
Maintenance Best Practices (RCM vs TPM) 
Asset Care Review & Kaizen Cycle 
OEE, Quality Management & Test 
Asset Criticality, 7 Wastes & CI Tools
It Wasn’t Always Good
5S – So you can see the waste
5S – Make it obvious
Visual Standards Across The Group
Eurocentral 
Knowsley 
Broxbourne 
The Newsprinters Audits
Visual Staff Audits - Daily 
Staff Audits Daily: 
• Use Area Audit Form and audit the work 
area assigned. 
• Complete the form noting any issues and 
highlight 9001-14001-18001 concerns to 
Manager.
Systems Where Everybody Audits 
Daily ~ Staff and Frontline Managers 
Weekly ~ Managers 
Monthly ~ Senior Managers 
Quarterly ~ Executive Directors
Where Every One Has PAL
Newsprinters 
Accomplishments
Environmental
Lean Manufacturing
Lean Manufacturer of the Year
Printer & Environmental Company of the Year 2011
Printer of the Year - 2013
Printer of the Year - 2014
Recognised Lean Manufacturing Facilitators
UK’s 1st Shingo Prize Winner – 2014
Shingo 
or 
Terry
George Donaldson - Chasing the Lean Transformation
George Donaldson - Chasing the Lean Transformation

George Donaldson - Chasing the Lean Transformation