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Competitive Supremacy through Cost Improvement: True Productivity Reveals your Hidden Profitability

The major challenge of top managers is to find the way to consistently obtain annual and multiannual manufacturing target profit regardless of the evolution of sales volumes, increasing or decreasing.

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Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) and Overall Line Effectiveness (OLE)
MCPD & Industry 4.0: 10 Transformation Directions

As it is already known, the key to daily scheduling of activities through Takt Time requires aligning all processes accordingly and especially the bottleneck process to ensure t […]

Cost Reduction: 7 Basic Directions

Even if profit margins are decreasing for many companies, they find all sorts of excuses for their growing stock, especially for stocks that don’t move, move slowly or are not necessary for many days in the factory. Often, the value of these stocks is dizzying, especially f […]

1. Karakuri Kaizen: Introduction and Definition

Increasing the automation level of the production flows with low cost automated equipment is and will remain an challenge to ensure: (1) capacity increase, (2) processes with reliable and avoiding defects equipment, (3 ) short set-up times, (4) the use of sta […]

Realizarea obiectivelor multianuale ale ROI într-un mod științific implică o reformă profundă a profitabilității și a productivității. Deseori, managerii încearcă să reproiecteze metodele actuale deoarece, chiar dacă fac îmbunătățiri, acestea nu sunt vizibile în rezultatele financiare ale companiei. M […]

În ultimul timp, tot mai multe companii mari au introdus un nou departament: Cost Improvement Department – cu o abordare interdepartamentală și interdisciplinară. Unele companii au doar un Cost Improvement Coordinator. Nevoia sau misiunea de bază a unui astfel de departament este evidentă deoarece costurile a […]

Manufacturing Cost Policy Deployment (MCPD): Competitive Supremacy through Cost Improvement

The major challenge of top managers is to find the way to consistently obtain annual and multiannual manufacturing target profit regardless of the evolution of sales volumes, increasing or decreasing.

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To be honest, many of those who make improvements just review what has already been designed.
Often real-time business managers say:

we need an improvement in price competitiveness on the basis of a continuous and flexible reduction of unit costs;

we would like to reform the current profit structure so we can inte […]

The basic goal of MCPD thinking is to ensure a sustainable competitive supremacy through cost-competitiveness improvement to achieve real structural profit reform based on productivity reform.
At the beginning of the MCPD projects, managers and practitioners are concerned about:

concomitant reconciliation between the […]