Lean Production principles have been successfully transferred from Automotive to other industries and Health Care is an example. Please watch the following video clip:
Lean Hospitals - Miami Children's Hospital
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be1HsYhr82c
Please answer the following questions:
1. What are the major improvements (performance) they achieved in the Miami Children's
hospital
with Lean Service and how did they achieve it?
2. If you were COO (Chief Operating Officer) of a
manufacturing company, which 5 lean principles would you focus on to achieve operational excellence and why?
3. What are two major reasons why so many
manufacturing companiesare not satisfied with the results they have achieved with Lean Production? - do some research and explain it
Please look also again at the "Operations Management Forum" where I posted Lean tools.
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Lean Production principles have been successfully transferred from Automotive to other industries and Health Care is an example. Please watch the following video clip: Lean Hospitals - Miami Children's Hospital HYPERLINK "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be1HsYhr82c" \t "_blank" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be1HsYhr82c Please answer the following questions: 1. What are the major improvements (performance) they achieved in the Miami Children's hospital with Lean Service and how did they achieve it? 2. If you were COO (Chief Operating Officer) of a manufacturing company, which 5 lean principles would you focus on to achieve operational excellence and why? 3. What are two major reasons why so many manufacturing companies are not satisfied with the results they have achieved with Lean Production? - do some research and explain it Please look also again at the "Operations Management Forum" where I posted Lean tools.