Big global companies that applied successfully the lean production techniques, are now exporting the lessons learned on their suppliers in order to exploit flexibility and reduce non value added activities in their overall supply chain network. In the automobile industry … Continue reading →

The crisis started in 2009 in Italy in nearly every manufacturing realm, shows a weakness which, in those years, has never found a structural and organic solution: the competitive edge based on an permanent research of productivity. This business case … Continue reading →

Business schools around the world have always taught to choose among strategies of cost reduction, aimed to release to customers benefits of standard quality and low price, and strategies of differentiation, thought to improve service and product excellence. The lean … Continue reading →

A business case, in the spirit of lean production, shows how a factory can start a change process of high impact on the company balance sheet with limited investments and relatively fast implementation I fondamentali della LP