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  • Lean Healthcare – Cleaning up the laundry process

    • March 10, 2017
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    Lean Healthcare – Cleaning up the laundry processImproving Laundry process for OR materials ·       Most hospitals in a large non-profit system had on-site laundry facilities, which were aging and in need of replacement.  Instead of further investments in these individual hospital laundry facilities, system leaders saw an opportunity to gain efficiencies through centralizing laundry services
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  • Lean Healthcare – New Facility Design

    • March 10, 2017
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    Lean Healthcare – New Facility DesignOptimizing flow and layout for a new Healthcare facility ·       When a healthcare organization has committed to constructing a new building, it represents a unique opportunity to design the physical layout of a facility to be integrated with and facilitate process efficiencies (see Figure 1). The process of Lean/TPS facility
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  • Lean Healthcare Transformation

    • March 10, 2017
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    Lean Healthcare TransformationImproving Operating Room Availability Operating Rooms (OR’s) represent the greatest opportunity for margin and profit impact (positive or negative) of any hospital department, but also represent the greatest expense and risk. Between OR cases (same room/same surgeon), the rooms must be turned over, which includes cleaning, restocking, preparation for the next case, pulling
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  • Office Rapid Improvement Workshop

    • October 12, 2016
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    Office Rapid Improvement WorkshopImproving time-to-market for a major product A major automotive supplier was seeking to improve the performance of their product development system. Cost and time pressures by their customers were growing each year. Finite Element Analysis(FEA) is a resource shared by all project teams. Being on the critical path of the development projects
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  • Lean Product Development Case Study

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    Lean Product Development Case StudyImproving time-to-market for a major product For one Large industrial company needed to develop a new product to meet an unmet need in the marketplace. The concern was that their competition was also working on a similar product. challenge The consensus among the management team was that the company needed to:
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  • Lean Manufacturing Plant Transformation

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    Lean Manufacturing Plant TransformationSurface Transport & Logistics A Large industrial manufacturing plant was not competitive. The plant was losing millions of dollars per year and was being subsidized by the parent company. The consensus among the management team was that the plant would be closed if things were not turned around soon.  "We needed a transformation,
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