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Study engineer frustration( which is a factor you should never underestimate).
Putting a dollar figure on inefficiency
What does a 273-yard walk cost? That’ s the big question. And if you complete the audit steps listed above, the answer is quite easy to calculate.
Let’ s imagine a loaded labor rate of $ 60 / hour. Just those walking trips alone, which took an engineer approximately ten minutes, translated into roughly $ 240,000 in annual expense across a busy maintenance facility. And that was before we even factored in reprint waste, downtime from missing job cards, or helpdesk overhead. You can see how even small inefficiencies on the floor scale fast when multiplied by dozens of engineers and frequent print jobs.
Once KLM integrated a print management solution, they began reclaiming that lost productivity. And better yet, turning it into measurable value.
Cutting paper and boosting ESG performance
In modern manufacturing environments, sustainability is everyone’ s business. And one flow-on benefit of KLM’ s print modernization was significant ESG gains, which become obvious when we think in terms of volume.
Given the paper-heavy nature of KLM’ s operation( up to 20,000 sheets per check), even a modest five percent drop in unnecessary print volume means tens or hundreds of thousands of sheets saved annually. Each un-printed job meant less paper, toner, consumables, and time, not to mention less waste.
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