Productivity

The concept of Strategic KAIZEN plays a decisive role both in approaching the Manufacturing Cost Policy Deployment (MCPD) system and in the new Speed-Based Target Profit (SBTP) thinking paradigm.
The annual and multiannual plans of the departments and the interdepartmental ones for improving the costs are always the big challenge. The pro […]

Current conditions: the company’s internal voices

Voice of Headquarter
At AA Company, the volume and number of orders fluctuate widely and are often unpredictable. In order to cover the fluctuation of the orders received, in some periods the working time and the work during the holidays (overtime) were increased […]

Book Review – Speed-Based Target Profit: Planning and Developing Synchronous Profitable Operations by Alin Posteucă

Review made by Steven Bonacorsi, President of the International Standard for Lean Six Sigma (ISLSS) and Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Bl […]

Productivity of the Companies and the State: A Podcast with Alin Posteucă and John Heap
By The Institute of Productivity, UK
January 15, 2021

The role of productivity in companies and at the state level is more important than ever in these pandemic […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

I am often asked by managers and practitioners where to start the approach to increasing productivity for profitability, especially now in times of crisis. They expect me to say that it starts with defining the customer value, then identifying waste at the level of operations and then making improvements to the current […]