Technology has disrupted production processes in all sectors, in particularly that of industry, which leveraging innovation has transformed and become “intelligent” thanks to the IoT, sensors, artificial intelligence and l 5G will give a further boost to the path towards industry 4.0. However, technology alone is not enough: optimizing processes requires hardware and software, but above all a method. One of the most popular in the manufacturing world is Lean , “invented” by Toyota. Lean Digital, the Italian way to the 5G factory , written by Michele Bonfiglioli and Umberto Mirani deepens this theme.

Lean Digital, the Italian way to the 5G factory

Michele Bonfiglioli , managing director of Bonfiglioli Consulting , is a great Lean expert, so much so that he is the founder of Lean Factory School. His company advises businesses that want to make their processes more efficient and increase productivity. In the book written together with the partner Umberto Mirani , expert in philosophy Lean Thinking and Lean World Class, explains how the Italian manufacturing industry can return to being competitive thanks to digital transformation combined with robust, flexible and lean processes.

“ In Italy, Covid – 19 has inflicted a considerable loss of turnover on small and medium-sized Italian enterprises which has had a significant impact on the country’s economy “ – points out Michele Bonfiglioli, CEO of Bonfiglioli Consulting – “ At the same time, the pandemic and the related restrictive measures have increasingly accentuated the trends of digital transition. Only companies in which the digital transformation was entry to all live shows lli and in all departments, managed to cope with the lockdown without reporting losses. S We are convinced that digital transformation is permanent and that Lean Thinking can be the fly, through a growing orientation to processes, to continuous improvement, to the utmost attention to the measurement and analysis of data, to knowledge distributed throughout the company, as well as to the involvement of people which necessarily involves the development of new skills and a new approach to work. The risk, otherwise, is to end up digitizing waste as well “.

The book is not limited to theory but brings real cases of companies that have already started transformation processes: A utomobili Lamborghini where robotics is at the service of man; Exor International which by 2020 will complete the 5G trial in its Digital 4.0 factory; Philip Morris
Recordati , always aware that the efficiency of the entire operation of the company cannot take place re without top down sharing of the process; SABO , fourth place among the thirty best SMEs with a turnover of between twenty and five hundred million, in the “Thousand Italian Champions”; Unifarco which since its inception has identified an extremely innovative network company organizational model.