In many companies, maintenance is seen as an inevitable evil, often anaesthetized with outsourcing. This approach is however inappropriate in environments where productivity, quality and service are highly dependent on technology. The Check up of Maintenance Services can help both … Continue reading
In any company, complexity can be measured thru absolute numbers: the products sold, the sales channels, the customers served, the items stoked, the levels in the BOM, the machines in use, the people engaged. The main characteristic of complexity is … Continue reading
The difficulty to implement reliable benchmarks, the frequency to deny strategies once revealed sure winners, the necessity to give new answers to unforeseeable and unfaithful customers, the low esteem given to whom try to sell “solutions looking for problems” oblige … Continue reading
There is no firm that avoids to declare its employees passion and commitment but in the time of artificial intelligence, cobots and Industry 4.0 what is the interest in human resources for any industrial environment? This paper gives a path … Continue reading
The weakness of longer and longer supply chains, the high rise of raw materials, the risks of discontinuity in provisions and the achievements of in shoring are going to change radically the approach to the purchasing process. The importance of … Continue reading
La debolezza delle catene di fornitura, l’aumento sconsiderato delle materie prime, i rischi di discontinuità negli approvvigionamenti e la progressiva affermazione dell’in shoring sull’off shoring stanno cambiando radicalmente l’approccio alla gestione dei processi esterni. L’importanza di una rivisitazione della Supply … Continue reading
In every Industry, due to the technological transition and the decline of many western production activities, Maintenance Functions go through a critical crossing. Their business oriented focus is no more limited to repairing machines but requires a warranty of steady … Continue reading
After Sales Service is seen, by machine makers, as the first income of the installed base, a way to differentiate their offer and an answer to the profits erosion due to a stronger and stronger competition trained by the tendency … Continue reading
The heightened search of savings for products with a life cycle shorter and shorter, shows the liabilities of an approach to the organization driven by specialization and weak horizontal communication. One of the most fragile lines is in the boundary … Continue reading
The COVID pandemic that, many months in the future, will oblige us to change our behaviours, has introduced the agile work with issues and new approaches to organization development. LorR
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