In today' s online world, where demand for instant information seems insatiable, UMI provides a crucial link between its customers seeking access to that information and its publisher-partners providing it. That link is a process that, like electrons, air, or gravity, is invisible to customers and publishers alike. But its impact is significant for both. Advanced Document Manufacturing, or ADM for short, is conducted by employees at UMI's corporate headquarters in Ann Arbor, Michigan. What It Is Launched in the summer of 1995, ADM enables UMI to deliver publishers' content to its customers on a timely basis, frequently within 24 hours of receipt of a journal or periodical.
Quick turnaround is demanded by customers in our markets.
Within our first six months of operation, we were producing an average of five issues a day. Currently, we manufacture 80 or more issues daily. By the end of this year, we will be manufacturing about 100 issues daily. Production Time Falling Daily production is increasing because the amount of time to process each issue is dramatically decreasing. But we knew that time would decrease because the process was new and untried.