Lean is a holistic continuous improvement approach for maximizing value for customers and eliminating waste. Many healthcare organizations have adopted Lean to improve efficiency and patient care. We ...

Lean manufacturing starts with “buy in” at the shop-floor level, by individual workers. Those who do the work need to be fully invested in the process for it to succeed. Lean manufacturing is perhaps ...

As an industry, the American healthcare system falls into three groups: those that embraced Lean principles early and persevered, those that tried and failed and quit, and those that are just waking ...

The course consists of four days of lecture-based coverage of topics in Lean, Six-Sigma, and two days of individual hands-on, on-site project formulation and guidance resulting in significant ...

WEST LAFAYETTE ― Purdue Healthcare Advisors (PHA) will use PHA Direct, the e-learning platform it launched earlier this year, to expand access for the training and certification of Lean Daily ...

Turning one’s interests and talent into a full-time job often doesn’t come without a few detours. “A lot of people I talk to, they want to do it but they’re really intimidated by it,” Candice Luter ...

Virginia Mason Health System in Seattle was among the industry’s earliest adopters of Lean, a management process based on Toyota’s production system that focuses on identifying areas of waste to ...

While Lean principles have been known and applied in a variety of manufacturing processes, the applications in product development have been slower to come. Several companies have also applied Lean to ...

Two teams from the Corpus Christi Army Depot, Texas, were recognized during a Sept. 14 ceremony at the Pentagon's Hall of Heroes with Department of the Army Lean Six Sigma Excellence Awards. The ...

Standardized processes are a critical requirement of a lean culture of continuous improvement. Employees who are new to lean ...

Subscribe to BizTimes Daily – Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact business in Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin. For the last six years, Jim Macejkovic, executive vice ...