Expert Articles and Industry Analysis

Why Your Supply Chain Obeys the Laws of Physics (And Why “Pressure” Is Not the Solution)
An organization’s health is dictated by the correlation between Plossl’s Law and Poiseuille’s Law. Pressure without widening the pipe is wasted energy — discover what flow physics means for Supply Chain.
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How ProdSYNC Transforms Production Through the Balance of Planning and Real-Time Adaptation
ProdSYNC integrates planning (MPS) with real-time reaction (Jidoka Kanban) into a coherent ecosystem. A true GPS for production.
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Universal Design: Building for Everyone Without Diluting for Anyone?
Universal Design Principles are not an innovation method, but a set of 7 design rules meant to create products, services, and spaces usable by as many types of people as possible.
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Kanban That Adapts Itself. No Buzzwords. Just Action.
Most Kanban systems break under pressure. We built Jidoka Kanban – a system that sees, understands, and acts. An industrial nervous system where signals are logic and responses are automated.
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V-Model: Total Control, But Only If You Don’t Move
V-Model is a sequential development methodology used in engineering, automotive, and critical software. Every decision is mirrored by a test that validates it.
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Cynefin: Decisions in Chaos – Or How Not to Apply Lean Where You Need Instinct
Cynefin doesn’t solve problems. It maps them. It’s a mental orientation system in a world where you don’t know if you need TRIZ or an instant decision.
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Double Diamond: Total Clarity… If You Have Time for It
Double Diamond is a visual innovation method, clearly structured in four steps: Discover, Define, Develop, Deliver. It offers strategic clarity and empathy, but it's not a rapid-fire tool.
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Lean Startup: Speed at the Cost of Depth?
The Lean Startup method revolutionized tech product launches through the MVP–feedback–pivot cycle. But does it work just as well when the product isn't digital or when the context is chaotic and regulated?
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Taguchi: Robust Design That Doesn't Crack at the First Noise
Taguchi Robust Design is a design method that doesn't seek perfection in the lab, but durability in reality. Using orthogonal arrays and signal-to-noise ratio, you optimize for consistency.
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TRIZ – The Inventive Thinking System That Anticipates Innovation
TRIZ is a systematic methodology for solving technical problems, based on the analysis of over 200,000 patents. Learn when and how to use the 40 inventive principles for real innovation.
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ETplan – Strategic Optimization of Employee Transport
Companies pay between €1.5 and €3/day/employee for daily transport. ETplan reduces costs by up to 27%, dynamically optimizes routes, and automates planning and invoicing processes.
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Preventing and Controlling COGI Errors in Electronics Manufacturing
COGI errors in SAP can severely hinder efficiency in high-volume electronics manufacturing. Learn how to detect, automate corrections with RPA, and proactively prevent errors using AI.
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The Future of Supply Chain Management: Agility, Decentralization and AI
Accelerating change forces companies to choose between rigidity and agility. Decentralization in Supply Chain Management, supported by artificial intelligence, is becoming the key to survival in a world of constant change.
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When and How to Transition from Employee Transport Planning in Excel to a Digital Management Solution?
Excel works well for small companies, but as the number of employees grows and locations diversify, transport planning becomes impossible to manage. Discover when it's time to switch to a dedicated digital solution.
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Integration with Ro e-Transport 2024: How to Decide on the Optimal Method for Generating and Transmitting the UIT Code
In an era where digitalization is becoming imperative, manufacturing companies are faced with the challenge of aligning with new legislative requirements for transport declarations. To ensure operational success and avoid potential incidents arising from non-compliance, it is crucial to select an efficient method for complying with the Ro e-Transport system.
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Unoptimized Storage Space: The 'Cholesterol' of the Production Line
Unoptimized storage space is the cholesterol of the production line — it obstructs a continuous, uninterrupted production flow and prevents the company from achieving its 5S operational goals and strategic financial targets. From a managerial perspective, the production area is generally the highest-value space within a company.
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Jidoka Kanban: An Advanced Approach Combining Jidoka with the Kanban System
Jidoka Kanban is an advanced concept blending principles of Jidoka (autonomation) with the Kanban system, centralizing on an automated triggering mechanism. This automated trigger, derived directly from the machine or equipment, independently governs the production flow, negating the human intervention requirement.
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The Shipyards of Tulcea, Brăila, and Giurgiu Share the Expertise of Two Entrepreneurs from Arad
Felix Garai and Raul Pantiș bring a combined 47 years of experience in logistics and supply chain management. Since 2019, they have been partners at Share It Smart, an Arad-based consulting and IT company. Their portfolio includes contracts in South Africa, Mexico, Hungary, Bosnia, and Australia.
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Felix Garai, Managing Partner, Share IT Smart: Building Solutions for Operational Excellence
Share IT Smart is a Romanian-born software developer that integrates IT and consultancy services to offer process optimization solutions to companies in automotive, electronics, ship building, shipping and logistics. Discover what inspired the foundation of Share IT Smart and our main activities.
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Share IT Smart: Consulting - The Key to a Company's Health
At the beginning of 2021, we embarked on a journey with our client, High Plast, on a project aimed at streamlining production and logistics processes. The following six months were filled with challenges, but thanks to experience, flexibility, and teamwork, we successfully completed the project.
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Local vs Central: Bridging the Gap in Corporate Structure
This battle is not the epic drama from the recent movie Star Wars but you can sense the 'frustration' behind the scene in most of the big corporations. The plot is a simple one - the central and the local team have simply different point of view for the same matter: who shall be responsible for what?
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Spyglass and Microscope: Balancing Strategic Vision with Operational Details
Few of us have the possibility to look through the spyglass beyond the horizon into the next 5 or 10 years for a corporation. Even if the future is not 'visible', the strategy, the set road for the corporation, becomes the target for the future for all its employees.
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Trick-or-treating or Better Share: The Evolution of Business Culture
I do not talk about the Halloween, do not worry! I will talk about organizations! Some which are still in the 'Dark Age' of business, when you must win over the competition, you must be tough, strong and show your muscles (trick). The slogan is 'I must have!'. They are still here 'surviving' in the modern times.
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Packaging, the Last Frontier: Optimizing Industrial Packaging Solutions
Attractive, shining, nicely packed waiting on shelves for shoppers to buy, a lot of effort to make the packaging of all the nice, little things we buy, so attractive, so commercially desirable… On the other hand, when I look in the factory, industrial packaging is not really nice. But of course, in contrast with the consumer goods.
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