Films · A · Problem · Exegens®
A · Problem.
The Question Every Plant Faces.
Under 90 seconds.

Each film asks one question that managers recognise from their own plant — and leaves the traditional answer where it stops. Then Strategic Kaizen answers it: with the cost of losses and waste, with Takt Profit, with the profit specified before the improvement begins.

FormatUnder 90 seconds · one question per film
AnswerTraditional · versus Strategic Kaizen
AuthorDr. Alin Posteucă · Originator of Strategic Kaizen and Takt Profit
NextB · Proof · the numbers behind the answer
One questionEvery film · one question from the plant
Two answersThe traditional answer · the Strategic Kaizen answer
Under 90 secondsWatch it between two meetings
A · 01 · Latest1 min 12 s
A · 01 · 72 seconds The Problem · Capacity Bottleneck or Profit Bottleneck?
Your plant runs at takt time.
So why is the profit still missing?
One plant · six modules · demand rising, price falling
Dr. Alin Posteucă

The plant manager is certain: module 3 is the problem — 394 seconds, when the customer needs one unit every 320. The finance director disagrees: something else is eating the margin. But where?

The traditional answer

Attack the capacity bottleneck. Fix module 3 until every module runs at takt time.

The Strategic Kaizen answer

Ask what losses and waste cost, module by module. The module nobody attacked was losing 2.4 times more, every month. That is the profit bottleneck — and the missing signal is Takt Profit.

Illustrative story built on the example in Beyond Strategic Kaizen (Routledge, 2023), Figure 4.7, p. 151.

Takt Profit Capacity Bottleneck Losses and Waste Profit Bottleneck
See the proof · B · 01

Every factory has a capacity bottleneck.
Few know they also have a profit bottleneck.

— Dr. Alin Posteucă · Strategic Kaizen
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