Category: Newsletters
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Putting into practice what you have learned
A company's success depends not so much on the quality of its strategies, but fundamentally on the ability and discipline to implement them. When anxiety takes center stage, decisions are rushed, and the organizational consequences can be very negative. The urgent prevails over the important…
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The Pillars of TPM
What are the TPM Pillars? The pillars are the fundamental strategies for developing the program. These pillars support the construction of an organized production system. They are implemented following a disciplined, powerful, and effective methodology. The pillars considered by the JIPM as necessary for the development of TPM in an organization are eight…
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Business plans ready. Now what?
We've already met, set the sales goals for the year, discussed their feasibility, and so on. Now it's time to start showing results. In many cases, this turns into something like a suspenseful, or worse, horror movie… So why not take action? Evaluate the…
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TPM Coordinator Responsibilities
To successfully implement the Industrial Management program known as TPM, a full-time Program Coordinator must be appointed whose primary responsibility is to ensure that the program progresses in the “right direction and at the right speed.” (Cf. Tokutaro Suzuki) The appropriate selection of this role is a critical factor…
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After Total Quality: On the Road to Competitiveness – Mercado Magazine
Cordoba-based companies that compete internationally travel long distances in pursuit of competitiveness. They even cross paths in the same classrooms in Japan, the Mecca of production processes. First it was Total Quality Management, now it's TPM. However, the road is full of twists and turns. By Juan Pablo Dalmasso* "Surprise!" the executives of… surely exclaimed.
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Reactives. The quintessential Argentine disease. Tato Bores (In Memoriam)
The following text is an excerpt from one of the famous monologues of the late, great "comedian of the nation," Tato Bores. His genius still makes us laugh while still prompting reflection. Taking responsibility, instead of always blaming others for what happens to us, is the only way to…