New York Daily News gets scoop on maintenance and repair
requirements with Lista storage solutions

Liberty Park, NJ / Newspaper publisher

 
 
 Problem

With a daily circulation of over 700,000, The New York Daily News is one of the country's 10 largest newspapers.

When new owners purchased the paper, they decided to replace the existing satellite plants in Brooklyn and New Jersey with a modern 435,000 sq. ft. facility in order to make production more efficient and cost-effective. The company's commitment to improving efficiency extended to every part of the plant, including the storage systems 

 Objective
 Among other requirements, the new storage system would have to allow machinists to store large volumes of spare parts and equipment in a relatively small area, while also providing the ability to roll out parts right to the press area to facilitate maintenance.
 
 Solution
 To meet their requirements, the Daily News turned to Lista, who provided each of the facility's support areas with a combination of Storage Wall® systems, workbenches, modular drawer storage cabinets and roll-out mobile cabinets.

Lista Storage Wall systems (shown in the bottom photo, above right) allow machinists to store oversized items such as motors, gears, bearings and drive shafts on shelves, as well as smaller items like drill bits and various hand tools in drawers.

Workbenches, furnished with butcher block worksurfaces, are ideal for tasks such as cleaning ink manifolds and precision assembly of electrical components. Plus, with their modular configuration, they can be modified to meet changing needs.

 Benefits
 Perhaps the most significant elements of the Lista system are the mobile carts (top photo, above right). According to Vinnie Grosso, the facility's production maintenance manager, "The roll-out carts have given our machinists the capability to bring a large volume of tools and parts right to the printing presses when repairs or maintenance is required. The repairs are affected more quickly, and downtime is greatly reduced. You can't overstate the importance of that in a business where deadlines are a daily fact of life."