When speaking about patient safety, the conversations are really about how hospitals and other healthcare organizations protect their patients from
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
[VIDEO] Consider the 3 Categories of Waste
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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.
[VIDEO] Lean Manufacturing and Tesla
Elon Musk has taken Tesla on a path of innovation and success. With that success, they have also experienced setbacks and frustration for both the
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
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)
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