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BOOK RELEASE! In just a few days, my fourth book, SPEED-BASED TARGET PROFIT, will be released. Many thanks to many people who inspired me to create this new paradigm in the field of operational management.
My heartfelt thanks go to my dear publisher Michael Sinocchi for his continued trust and help for my four books so […] -
Recently, I have received several requests to briefly explain how costs are consistently improved using Manufacturing Cost Policy Deployment (MCPD). For this, I recently wrote a paper for the Publishing House of the Romanian Academy; The Romanian Journal of Technical Sciences – Applied Mechanics Series.
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Today’s managers in companies around the world have studied and adopted the concept of synchronization to have the right things in the right place at the right time and in the right quantities, reducing waste and ensuring the level of flexibility, change and innovation needed.
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Companiile care nu își controlează costurile nu rămân pe piață. Reducerea costurilor prin tăieri de costuri ca acțiuni unice imediate, sporadice și directe nu este soluția consistentă a reducerii costurilor.
Reducerea costurilor prin îmbunătățirea costurilor este calea de urmat pentru a obține nivelul de […] -
Often over time you have had to deal with cost reductions. More recently, some of you have decided that you need to find additional solutions to reduce costs by 5%, 10%, 20% or even 30%, in addition to the compensation for certain orders. In this context, you simply do not see how the cost reduction can be done.
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Is the synchronization of processes to customer requirements really the most important dimension of a good production system? This was my question that arose a few years ago during a detailed presentation of a production system at a well-known car assembly company. They explained how they seek to ensure a synchronizat […]
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Companies that do not control their costs do not stay in the market. Are everyone in the company aware enough of the importance of costs in these times? How can you double your profits? Can you sell and produce twice as much? Could your company grow to double the current size in the same market? Well…. you don̵ […]
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I am often asked in companies: why does the Japanese approach fail in the West? Everyone knows that there are many possible causes and many business effects.
In recent years I have had the great honor and privilege of discussing intensely and intimately about the original Japanese approach (from the beginning to the pres […] -
Bottleneck operations are often one of the biggest challenges for any company to reduce production lead time. After the bottleneck operations are identified, the struggle to synchronize cycle time with takt time begins for industrial engineering specialists, maintenance specialists, improvement specialists, etc. They oft […]
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Profitable digitalization: MCPD, SBTP and MDC. Industry 4.0 to a new dimension: preconditions and feasibility to ensure target profitability based on continuous productivity growth.
My presentation at the Global Productivity Discourse (22nd -23rd of July 2020) can befound here. I introduced some new concepts from my futu […]
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