As a print shop owner, what’s your ‘end game’? Do you want to eventually sell your business, or pass it along to future generations? Either way, Significans Automation can help you.
Yes, customized workflow automation and integration of all your critical production processes can literally transform your business. This has been proven time and time again by our valued customers across North America. But there’s another enormous benefit that’s seldom considered.
Reinventing the way you work on a daily basis also allows print-shop owners to change their focus – from short-term gains and fast ROI to long-term sustainable success leading to a huge increase in the financial value of your company. This success often includes expansion into other markets, easier scalability, and the ability to adapt quickly to evolving market demands.
One recent example of radically transforming a printing business for future success is Workhouse Signs, a Pottstown-Pennsylvania online signage printer that re-invented its manufacturing processes with bold new automation solutions. With a staff of only 8, it creates thousands of signs every week! Now, with bold new customized workflow software from Significans that included AI technology, staff can now create over 38,000 signs in just one evening that would have previously taken them about 4 months! In other words, 3,024 hours (18 weeks) of job processing was reduced to just 6 hours! This has transformed the company, with sales now predicted to increase tenfold!
Strategies for Long-Term Success and Workforce Empowerment
Beyond immediate cost savings and efficiency, our approach is designed to support long-term growth. Automation opens doors to new markets, facilitates scalable operations, and enables rapid adaptation to industry trends.
Moreover, these technological advancements secure a brighter future for your employees. By reducing routine tasks and offering continuous upskilling opportunities, your team becomes more agile and better equipped to meet evolving industry demands, creating a safer, more dynamic workplace for everyone.
Creating Financial Value for an Exit Strategy
On the other hand, by significantly increasing your company’s financial value through streamlined operations and automation, your business becomes an even more attractive asset with significant multipliers when it’s time to sell.
In both cases, key performance indicators such as increased throughput, reduced downtime, and improved customer satisfaction are clear metrics of progress.
Significans: More than just an automation partner- a true tech partner
Print-shop owners have their own ideas about where their business is now, and where they’d like to be in the future. And though our primary expertise lies in automation, we’ve also helped printers across North America with strategic guidance and succession planning – by identifying skills for key positions, developing knowledge-transfer plans, pinpointing competencies, assessing overall corporate worth, and focusing on training of employees and management to meet not just current needs, but future goals.
Whatever your vision – from short-term profitability to long-term future-proofing that adds to the overall dollar value of your business – we can help with flexible, adaptable and affordable solutions, as well as strategic planning and guidance. From automation to business transformation to succession planning, Significans will partner with you for the long term.
For an assessment of your workflow software systems, and to discuss your future goals, please call Significans Automation at 1-877-463-4465. Or, e-mail Marc Raad, President, at marc.raad@significans.com.
