Nearly every company, in many Business to Business industries, is firmly persuaded to know what produces value for its customer, nonetheless the market is continuously looking for alternative sources and the hypothesis of a partnership with the suppliers, so often … Continue reading →

Every manufacturing process has one main objective: to create a continuous flow pulled by the customer. As well known, on contrast, we witness to a well rooted bias: to replenish stock by producing batches of finished or semi-finished goods. One … Continue reading →

One of the aspects of the oriental approach to operations management concerns plants and equipments maintenance. As for any other lean thinking perspective, also in this case one can reduce every innovative content simply to a series of tools and … Continue reading →

After so many lean projects, in the western world the satisfaction of the results obtained is below par, the efforts of the transformation are often much higher than what was foreseen and the Board is asking if there is a … Continue reading →

What remains of the credit crunch and the need to develop an offer more and more innovative and consistent with continuously changing customers’ requests, stress reactive capacities of small and medium sized companies. The business case contained in this article … Continue reading →

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