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Author: Alin Posteucă ,
Shigeyasu Sakamoto
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint: Productivity Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.804kg
ISBN: 9781498785570
ISBN 10: 1498785573
Pages: 402
Publication Date: 23 March 2017
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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General/trade
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College/higher education
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Professional & Vocational
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Alin Posteucă, Ph.D, is a management consultant in cost improvement, productivity and quality and managing partner of Exegens Management Consultants (Romania). Prior to this position, he held top management positions in manufacturing and service companies.His major research areas include manufacturing policy deployment, manufacturing cost improvement, and operational management of production. His recent research includes the manufacturing cost deployment policy to translate the strategic objective to reduce the long-term production costs to the annual activities and actions of manufacturing cost improvement, by setting targets and means for the process cost improvement. He has been actively involved in various industrial consulting and training projects for more than 18 years in Romania. He has published in various research journals and presented papers at numerous conferences, regarding productivity, manufacturing cost improvement and industrial engineering. He is certified public accountant. He has an MBA degree (University of Iasi, Romania). He received his Ph.D. in managerial accounting from the Bucharest University of Economic Studies (Romania). Also, he received his Ph.D. in industrial engineering from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest (Romania). Shigeyasu Sakamoto, Ph.D, is a management consultant in productivity and profitability improvement and president of Productivity Partner Incorporated (Japan). Before his current appointment, Sakamoto was vice president of Maynard MEC AB (Sweden) and vice president of JMAC (Japan). Sakamoto is a fellow at the World Academy of Productivity Science. He received his Ph.D. in policy science from the Doshisha University (Japan). He is also certified as: industrial engineer from the European Institute of Industrial Engineering, MTM instructor from International MTM Directorate (IMD), and a MOST instructor from Maynard Management Institute. He worked for the IMD as the technical coordinator responsible for developing a new system of MTM. Sakamoto is a senior member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers. He’s a work factor and mentor factor instructor for WOFAC Corporation. Sakamoto has published many books and papers in English and Japanese regarding productivity, industrial engineering and work measurement. Recently, he explored the subject of company dignity through experiences as management consultant of productivity for more than 20 years in Europe. He is the author of Beyond World Class Productivity (2010, Springer, London, UK).
