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He describes the experience: “We assigned five different jobs and we chose the specs while Engico built the tooling and ordered the board. We set some speed factors and determined our quality criteria and everything checked out perfectly. I think it was probably one of the shortest demos I’ve ever done. The Engico team was gracious, pro- fessional, and transparent throughout.” After four weeks for installation and six weeks of training by Engico’s staff, the machine began running in Rand-Whitney’s Boylston facility in February of this year.
According to Smith, startup went great and Rand-Whit- ney in Boylston is already staffing for a second shift. There have been virtually no operational challenges. “Even though it’s got the one color on the 99-inch cyl- inder and two colors on the 66-inch cylinder, you can run it as a three-color machine. You're not going to get the full 99-inch graphics on all three colors but you can use the two downs to create the effect of a second 99-inch cylinder.” Others considering a similar growth initiative with a large-format machine would do well to heed Smith’s wis- dom. “We now have a Jumbo in our system and we’ve tethered it to a ‘beast of a corrugator’ in a massive facility, so unless you're willing to make that kind of investment, it may not the right strategic decision for you,” he says. “Once we laid the groundwork and put our plan in mo- tion, we knew we were going to have mid-size flexos and Rand-Whitney’s operators achieve maximum efficiency on their Engico Jumbo.
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