Lean for Systems Engineering with Lean Enablers for Systems Engineering

Oppenheim, Bohdan W.

doi:10.1002/9781118063996

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“…It has been proven as the systematic approach to simultaneously reduce waste, cost and process throughput times, improve the capacity and quality, provide better services, and improve the work morale of the employees and other stakeholders. Lean routinely reduces the amount of waste in the system by 30-50-70% [5]. This paper extends the paradigm to clinical laboratories.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 85%

“…The effectiveness of the Lean Principles has been demonstrated in a broad range of industries and work environments, including production; engineering and systems engineering; supply chain management; finance, banking and general administration; education; healthcare, and others. Oppenheim [5] contains a review of the literature which is not repeated here.…”

Section: The Six Lean Principlesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Lean Enablers for Clinical Laboratories

Oppenheim¹

2017

RMES

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A new intellectual product named Lean Enablers for Clinical Laboratories (LEfCL) is described. It is a collection of 136 best practices for clinical laboratory operations, containing collective wisdom on how to practice laboratory management, focusing on simultaneous improvements in test quality, productivity, laboratory capacity and stakeholder satisfaction, and reductions of test turnaround time and cost. The methodology follows an awarded method established in Systems Engineering and represents an extension of that engineering knowledge into clinical practice. The product has been developed by experienced directors from Kaiser Permanente regional clinical laboratory while pursuing a graduate Certificate in Lean Healthcare at Loyola Marymount University. LEfCL are organized into six well-known Lean Principles: Value, Value Stream Mapping, Flow, Pull, Perfection and Respect. The paper also identifies 46 Challenges that prevent success. Results of Lean improvements measured over the period of 2014-2016 are quoted for five laboratories. The LEfCL are not intended to become a mandatory practice. Instead, they should be used as a checklist of good practices. LEfCL are formulated as a comprehensive set of practices, intended for future training of new hires and as reference material. As such, they include both basic and advanced practices.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 85%

Section: The Six Lean Principlesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Lean Enablers for Clinical Laboratories

Oppenheim¹

2017

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“…(Oppenheim 2011). More recently, and important in the context of reliability engineering, lean has been introduced to new product development and to systems engineering.…”

Section: The Essence Of Leanmentioning

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Lean Reliability Engineering

Barnard

2014

INCOSE International Symp

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Many reliability engineering activities practised today cannot contribute to the objective of reliability engineering, which is the prevention of failure. Lean is a management philosophy with the objective of maximising value by removal of waste from all activities. Waste is defined as any non‐value added activity or process. Can lean be applied to reliability engineering? This paper starts with a brief discussion on the essence and practice of both reliability engineering and lean. It provides a definition of value in the context of reliability engineering, and applies this definition to identify categories of reliability engineering activities which can be considered as waste. It is argued that lean can (and should) be used during the development of a Reliability Program Plan to select only value added activities for execution.

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“…Let people just wait for work without generating useful results may easily be categorised as waste (Oppenheim 2011). When it is finished, the design is accomplished followed later by the system integration.…”

Section: The Precedence Of the Value Stream Approachmentioning

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“…First, in lean systems engineering value is simply defined as information (McManus 2005;Oppenheim 2011). But this narrative may be challenged from two directions.…”

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Systems Engineering Value Stream Modelling

Scheithauer¹

2014

INCOSE International Symp

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The V‐Model denotes the overall systems engineering value stream. The value stream consists of configuration baselines referencing the information handed over across the system architecture for top‐down design and bottom‐up integration. In addition, system integration preparation is depicted by direct flows from the left leg to the right leg of the V for each system. In order to exploit the full power of value stream thinking, the value streams for the generation of each particular configuration baseline have to be considered. This paper justifies the precedence of the value steam approach compared to document centred and process oriented approaches applied to particular documents. Configuration management in systems engineering is adjusted with respect to the value stream based approach. The process definition model for defining the value streams for generating individual configuration baselines is fully described. The paper concludes with considerations how to establish these work product generation sequences in practice.

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Lean for Systems Engineering with Lean Enablers for Systems Engineering

Cited by 57 publications

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Lean Enablers for Clinical Laboratories

Lean Enablers for Clinical Laboratories

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