Expert training for healthcare, with emphasis on the diagnostic laboratory.

Expert training for healthcare, with emphasis on the diagnostic laboratory.

Laboratory

BBMSL Assignment: Development of a Value Stream Map Lab

The goal of this assignment is to gain the skill for developing a simplistic Value Stream Map (VSM) by adapting the lessons you’ve learned in this module. Your assignment must describe a familiar wasteful process. Your VSM can be applied to a work related issue or making breakfast in your kitchen: The actual data is necessary to calculate cycle time, […]

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BBMSL A3: Standardize the Process

Standard Work is one of the fundamental concepts in Lean—without standard work, any gains will be short-lived.  Taiichi Ohno said that, “Where there is no standard, there can be no Kaizen.”  Standard work and Kaizen work hand-in-hand to continuously and iteratively drive improvement, but more about that in a minute. First, we need to define Standard work.  There are a number of

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BBSLOE Lecture: Planning the Kaizen Event- Part I

We will discuss planning the event in alignment with strategic goals and objectives of the organization. Organization of the Kaizen event includes planning, scheduling and sending invites in advance in order to accommodate a variety of schedules. The event invite may include: leadership, managers, experts and knowledgable staff. There is 3 factors of importance to

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Value Stream Mapping in the Laboratory. Why is this concept important?

Course Description: Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is a Lean concept, tool and method to analyze the current state of a process at a 10,000 foot view. This exercise is important to execute before actual change can take place. Through this course you will learn the concept of Value Stream Mapping and based on your laboratory workflow, you

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