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 →

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

Even if everyone knows that the optimum of a system can’t be obtained optimizing its single parts, the history of organizations, together with an aberration of rational thinking, calls for a search of losses and wastes inside each Department. This … Continue reading →

Very often productivity is seen as the result of an heavy downsize, reached through important investment in technology or thanks to a new make or buy focalization. This business case shows instead that the same objective is obtainable thru a … Continue reading →

The great celebrity that thrives in those last years under the name of Industry 4.0 seems to have overshadowed interventions with minor impacts on technology, known as Lean Production Transformation. A business case throws a new light on the central … Continue reading →

The appearance in the western world of advanced agreements between Customers and Suppliers is changing the perspective of Make or Buy Strategies. In this article, after a short introduction of the three alternatives of pure Market, Vertical Integration and Partnership, … Continue reading →

Too often the Toyota approach is confused with the tools that characterize the lean production system, losing sight of the way of thinking that inspired it. It’s reasonable to believe that this deficit of attention can explain the limited success … Continue reading →