After value streams have been solidified and embedded, Heijunka is a crucial process implementation in every successful lean organization. Heijunka quickly and elegantly helps organizations meet demands while reducing waste. By definition, it means ‘leveling’ and enables production to efficiently meet customer demands while avoiding batching and results in minimum inventories, capital costs, manpower, and […]
[VIDEO] Improving Flow With Bottleneck Analysis
One of the most serious causes of workflow process breakdowns is bottlenecks. When efficiency is crucial to an workflow process, a bottleneck can significantly impact the bottom line and customer satisfaction of any organization. A bottleneck analysis offers an organization opportunities to improve efficiencies, customer satisfaction and ensure workflows at an even rate. Watch this […]
Bottleneck Analysis Improves Flow
> “I say an hour lost at a bottleneck is an hour out of the entire system. I say an hour saved at a non-bottleneck is worthless. Bottlenecks govern both throughput and inventory.” Eliyahu M. Goldratt There can be multiple causes of slowdowns and disruptions in workflow. One of the most serious causes can be […]
Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE): Understand, Measure and Improve
A best practice in the manufacturing sector and considered the gold standard for measuring productivity, Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) provides crucial insights in manufacturing. It was a term coined by Seiichi Nakajima in the 1960s to evaluate how effectively a manufacturing operation is utilized. It is based on the Harrington Emerson way of thinking regarding […]
OEE Is the KPI You Need
Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is a KPI which has become the gold standard in manufacturing to measure and monitor the effectiveness of operating production and packaging machines and lines. Because manufacturing is a complex and costly process, absolute efficiency is crucial to success. Using metrics and guidelines, manufacturers remain in control over process and production. OEE is […]
The Lost Pillar of Jidoka
The popularity of TPS and Lean manufacturing is fully entrenched in manufacturing on a global scale. The success of these concepts are indisputable. Like any other process, elements can be left out or overlooked. Jidoka is a crucial concept in both TPS and Lean, but is also a lost pillar within these practices. The importance […]
Waste Reduction and Muda, Mura and Muri
Most definitions of lean manufacturing refer to the reduction of the Muda (7 wastes) as the main focus. Few definitions of lean differentiate between the different types of waste and seem to purely focus on Muda. The Toyota Production System (TPS) sees waste as being three — Muda, Mura and Muri — something that many […]
Patient Safety Awareness Week Mar 11- 17
Patient safety practices have been defined as those that reduce the risk of adverse events related to exposure to medical care across a range of diagnoses or conditions. This definition is solid, but quite incomplete, because so many practices have not been well studied with respect to their effectiveness in preventing harm. However, the one […]
[VIDEO] Patient Safety Week 2018
When speaking about patient safety, the conversations are really about how hospitals and other healthcare organizations protect their patients from errors, injuries, accidents, and infections. While many hospitals are good at keeping their patients safe, some hospitals aren’t. It’s up to everyone to make sure that patient safety is the number one priority at every […]
Advances With Lean Six Sigma and Healthcare
Just like any other organization, healthcare organizations do their business through processes, and any process can be studied and improved using basic Lean Six Sigma methods. The core value stream is built around having a patient arrive, receive treatment (or not), and then leave. The treatments vary, and how the entrance and exit take place […]
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