Visual Management Is The Heart of a Lean Organization
A lean organization makes extensive use of visual management techniques. These techniques require the placement of all tools, parts, activities, and indicators of the system performance so that the status of the system can be understood at a glance by everyone involved. The objective is to be able to see the factory — its workflow, its performance, its problems, and its improvement...
Read MoreHealthcare Can Benefit Greatly Using Lean Techniques
In recent years healthcare has been under enormous pressure to reduce cost and improve customer satisfaction. Hospitals getting squeezed on all sides and seeing rising costs are having to improve everything they do or risk going out of business. Hospitals have looked at what manufacturing has done to reduce cost and many have started to implement Lean Six Sigma as a way to analyze and improve...
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