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Cost Reduction: 7 Basic Directions

Even if profit margins are decreasing for many companies, they find all sorts of excuses for their growing stock, especially for stocks that don’t move, move slowly or are not necessary for many days in the factory. Often, the value of these stocks is dizzying, especially f […]

1. Karakuri Kaizen: Introduction and Definition

Increasing the automation level of the production flows with low cost automated equipment is and will remain an challenge to ensure: (1) capacity increase, (2) processes with reliable and avoiding defects equipment, (3 ) short set-up times, (4) the use of sta […]

1. Introduction

The continuous synchronization of the basic flow of the companies and the profitability of this flow is and will remain an eternal challenge of the manufacturing company to ensure the eternal prosperity in a global market. Even if different approaches are used to achieve lead time reduction […]

Continuous improvement depends on the knowledge and involvement of people in addressing problems, regardless of how to address the problems of each company. I have often noticed in companies a retention of the level of people’s knowledge and attitudes towards the concrete development of flows and processes.
In this […]

The interest in Cost-Competitiveness Improvement provided by MCPD has been increasing in the Asian continent in recent years.
New dimensions of MCPD were published again in Industrial Automation Magazine (Mumbai, India) in the last issue of June 2019.
Industrial Automation is a monthly magazine catering to the Factory an […]

The achievement of a multi-annual ROI target in a scientific way involves a profound reform of profitability and productivity. Often managers are looking to redesign current methods because, even if they make improvements, they are not visible in the company’s financial results. MCPD consistently addresses these ch […]

Lately, more and more large companies have introduced a new department: COST IMPROVEMENT DEPARTMENT – with an interdepartmental and interdisciplinary approach. Some companies only have Cost Improvement Coordinator. The underlying need or mission of such a department is obvious because cost has become and tends to b […]

Manufacturing Cost Policy Deployment (MCPD): Competitive Supremacy through Cost Improvement

The major challenge of top managers is to find the way to consistently obtain annual and multiannual manufacturing target profit regardless of the evolution of sales volumes, increasing or decreasing.

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Some managers and practitioners are wrong when they want to improve their productivity to increase production. The level of productivity does not depend on the volume of production. Production and productivity are completely different subjects. Productivity does not improve only by increasing production and vice versa.

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