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 →

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 →