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ImageSoft releases white paper on eliminating waste in courts

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SOUTHFIELD, USA: ImageSoft, Inc. released a newly published white paper which explains how the Toyota Production System (TPS) principles, used mostly in the manufacturing industry, are equally relevant and applicable to the courts for identifying and eliminating wastes that lurk in court records management processes.

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In The Seven Wastes in Courts: How Best Practices from Manufacturing Point the Way to Streamlined Court Operations with Paper On Demand, ImageSoft Justice System Consultant Jeffrey Barlow explores how, by understanding and confronting waste in the Court and Justice System and enabling Electronic Content Management, or "Paper On Demand" technology, court processes can be dramatically improved in terms of efficiency, cost and quality.

The Toyota Production System defines, identifies and sets forth principles for the management and elimination of waste. These principles focus not on changing the basic attributes of the product, but on managing the processes by which the products are developed, produced and delivered.

Barlow maintains that while the TPS was developed as a system for managing manufacturing, the concepts and principles are no less relevant to Court operations. He writes, "Less cost - higher quality certainly ought to resonate with courts. Indeed, they comprise a major chunk of the business case for court implementation of paper on demand."

In the paper, Barlow identifies the seven types of waste that exist in court records management processes; discusses how and how much they sap the court's effectiveness, efficiency, resources and quality; and outlines how an effectively implemented paper on demand court can help eliminate such wastes.