This document summarizes an industry visit to Colour Graphics, a printing firm located in Indore, India. Colour Graphics uses various machinery like exposing machines, punching machines, folding machines, and printing machines to process raw materials like printing sheets, ink, and plates through their offset printing process. The process involves designing positives, developing plates, printing, folding, pasting, packing and transporting finished products. Opportunities for improvement were identified, such as inspecting sheets for defects earlier, providing worker training to reduce errors, and improving factory layout and scheduling.

1. INDUSTRY VISIT OF
“COLOUR GRAPHICS”
GROUP 6
Hitendrasinh Zala
Ketan Changani
Ruchi Gattani
Shoaib Qureshi

2. CONTENTS
 Colour Graphics – The Factory
 Raw Materials Required
 Machinery
 Process
 Layout
 Scheduling

3. COLOUR GRAPHICS – The Factory
 Location – 474/1 A.B. Road,
Rajendra Nagar, Indore
 It is a printing firm which was
established in 1994 and is into
offset printing and packaging

4. Raw Materials Required
 Printing sheets
 Printing ink
 Kerosene
 Fevicol
 Offset plates

5. Machinery
Machine Name Quantity
Exposing Machine (copies positives into aluminum 1
sheets)
Punching Machine (distinguishes various designs in a 1
single sheet)
Literature Folding Machine (mainly used for pharma 2
products, max 32 folds)
Catch Cover Pasting (produces envelopes etc.) 1
Box Pasting Machine (produces boxes) 2

6. Machinery
Machine Name Quantity
UV Processor (coating of UV to produce gloss) 1
Lamination Machine (laminates) 1
Cutting machine (cuts paper into even shapes) 2
Printing machine (Single color) 1
Delta Machine (4 color) 1
KBA’s Planata Machine (7 color) 1

7. Machinery

8. Process
 Designing positives
 Developing from positives to
aluminum plates
 Cleaning from chemical
 Plates ready for further printing
 Simultaneously paper is cut for
printing

9. Process
 Goes to lamination machine or
UV machine (if required)
 Punching /cutting machine (if
required)
 Pasting machine (if required)
 Packing in corrugated box and
transported

10. Scope of Improvement
 Inspecting the sheets before
printing
 Few sheets are found defective in the
final lot
 It introduces wastage of costs of ink,
electricity, labor etc.
 The storekeeper can check defective
sheets beforehand

11. Scope of Improvement
 Quality variation due to
miscommunication at times in the
factory
 Job sheets may lead to
miscommunication due to lack of
training
 Proper training should be provided to
the workers

12. Scope of Improvement
 UV processor machine is rarely used
& occupies place in the inventory
 This reduces the amount of inventory
which can be stored
 It can be kept near the generator room
which will be more convenient

13. Scope of Improvement
 Movement is blocked at times
because sheets are laid for drying
 It blocks a walking path & may even
harm the prints
 A new construction can provide a better
place for drying as the campus is
spread over 1 acre

14. Layout
 Colour Graphics follow process
layout.

15. Scheduling
 It follows Earliest Due Date (EDD)
scheduling mechanism.

16. THANK YOU….