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 […]

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 […]

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.
But what is […]

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 […]

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.
However, […]

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 […]

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 […]