Lean Manufacturing

Lean Manufacturing

Value-stream charts are the designs for slender conversions. This class reveals you how to make and utilize this essential and crucial device, based on the Lean Business Institute's innovative value-stream applying book, Learning to See, which has presented the applying device to a large number of your co-workers around the world.

Mapping is a crucial start in slender alterations because it reveals you where you could utilize slender methods, such as kaizen activities, for highest possible effect. Mapping helps you avoid the common error of cherry-picking individual slender methods, which makes separated destinations of enhancement and restricted advantages. The applying pattern of applying current conditions then quickly illustrating and applying a thinner future state increases the overall circulation of value to the customer and provides the greatest advantages.

Lean Healthcare

Lean Healthcare 

Drawing on his years of working with hospitals, Mark Graban - who is now on the staff of Lean Enterprise Institute - explains why and how lean can be used to improve safety, quality, and efficiency in a healthcare setting. After highlighting the benefits of lean methods for patients, employees, physicians, and the hospital itself, he explains how lean manufacturing staples such as value-stream mapping and process observation can help hospital personnel identify and eliminate waste in their own processes, effectively preventing delays for patients, reducing wasted motion for caregivers, and improving the quality of care. Additionally, Graban describes how standardized work and error-proofing can prevent common hospital errors and details root cause problem-solving and daily improvement processes that can engage all personnel in systemic improvement. A unique guide for healthcare professionals, this book clearly elaborates the steps they can take to begin the proactive process of lean implementation.