operational excellence

Daily Kaizen is very important, but it is very difficult for all organizations to completely and continuously achieve all their operational and financial expectations simultaneously using only this. Strategic Kaizen is required to achieve all that.
In short, Strategic Kaizen is top-down leadership to simultaneously meet […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Today’s world revolves around COVID -19. What does it mean to reopen a company today?
In companies, the total avoidance of COVID-19 is the way and not the daily fight with it.
It’s like watching a contest with prizes about who has the courage to open a business again. I don’t think it’s a matter o […]