Those ‘fixtures’ are tools designed to ensure proper central alignment of label on the CD. Both CD’s and label’s centres fall in the empty space so it is not possible to align label manually in such a way that centres match, not to speak about keeping alignment consistently within acceptable boundaries.
CD label misalignment will cause CD to ‘wobble’ while rotating in CD drive, having the effect of noisy operation, erroneous readings and excessive drive wearing.

Your mini-kaizen will have very bad influence to customer satisfaction and possibly cause real damage to their equipment.

I like your example as a way to continuously improve a process.

Once you are comfortable with your new process, you should make it the standard by documenting it. That should address Steve Harris’s concern (which is valid).

Also, your process improved the product because all labels would be in the proper position after application. They could be rotated in any posiiton with the initial process.

Ed Kemmerling

However I personally see myself agreeing with Ron on this one with one major caveat. The assembler must be fully trained and empowered to self inspect his or her work.

Finally, I have used CD fixtures like these and must admit I find them cumbersome and clumsy to use.

While I understand the desire to eliminate steps (remove CD from case, apply label, replace in case), the overall cost of your revised method is probably higher, after you “scrapped” a few misaligned labels. And do you realize that the cost of the label is significantly higher than the CD on which it’s placed?