Miscellaneous

New book! ‘Beyond Strategic KAIZEN‘
It has been a pleasure and challenge for me to do research for this new book over the past 20+ years. I started by researching the interactions between target operating time and inventory structures at the production flow level and detailed typologies of losses and waste for each c […]

Alin Posteucă (Dr. Eng., Dr. Ec, MBA) received the Traian Vuia Prize of the Romanian Academy, during the award ceremony of the General Assembly of the Romanian Academy on December 3, 2020, when the Romanian Academy prizes were awarded for the year 2018.
The Traian Vuia Prize, in the Technical Sciences category, was awar […]

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BOOK RELEASE! I am very pleased to invite you to the launch of my latest book, the fourth, entitled SPEED-BASED TARGET PROFIT. After the release of the book by Productivity Press by Routledge/ Taylor & Francis on November 19, 2020 in New York, USA, I now […]

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 […]

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.
But is synchronization really the best pro […]

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 don&#821 […]

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 […]

I will be happy to participate in the discussion on global productivity. In my presentation I will also send a short message from Dr. Shigeyasu Sakamoto – his vision for the future of productivity.
I hope that we will have presentations in line with today’s needs and that the debates will be extremely valuabl […]

Intellectual leadership and the economic crisis. It is obvious that the global economic crisis is a systemic one..
Starting from the economic and financial actions from the global level in the last 2 years, from the amplifying effects of the economic crisis caused by Covid-19 and from the wave of recent manifestations, t […]