The Productive Operating Theatre and Lean Thinking Systems

Kasivisvanathan, R; Chekairi, Ahmed

doi:10.1177/175045891402401101

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“…In recent years, for instance, Tagge et al 27 and Kasivisvanathan and Chekairi 28 used the six‐sigma and lean methodologies to increase the efficiency of operating rooms. Tagge et al 27 followed DMAIC procedure and used process maps to highlight the process steps.…”

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A survey on performance management of operating rooms and a new KPI proposal

Sönmez

Pintelon

2020

Quality & Reliability Eng

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Performance management of operating rooms is of great importance in hospital management. From the patients' point of view, operating room capacity management ensures available capacity when needed and thus ensuring short (er) waiting time. From the hospital point of view, efficiently and effectively managing these expensive resources is a major concern. Because there are too many performance indicators with a lack of standardization on definitions and there is no one‐size‐fit‐all metric that can assess the overall performance, how to measure is still a challenging question. This paper starts with describing the operating room's characteristics and presents a systematic literature survey exploring different sources for information on operating room performance management. The literature is screened for lists of performance indicators currently used by managers. Aside from the nature of indicators, the way these indicators are used is also investigated. The literature ends with the suggestion of a new key performance indicator (overall operating room effectiveness [OORE]) that is intended to be used in measuring the overall performance of operating rooms from a lean thinking perspective. To increase the ability of finding root causes of low performance, a delay categorization framework is also proposed. Implementation of the KPI is illustrated using a real‐world data. In the conclusion, all the elements studied are brought together, and recommendations for research and practice are formulated.

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A survey on performance management of operating rooms and a new KPI proposal

Sönmez

Pintelon

2020

Quality & Reliability Eng

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“…In order to improve the end products and the competency of an organization to develop prod- ucts, researchers have proposed that the application of lean thinking in product development will bring significant results [11,32,33]. It has provided considerable improvements and gains to manufacturing companies such as designer's utilization.…”

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Simulation Based Measuring the Benefits of Converting to Lean Product Design and Development: A Case Study of Manufacturing Sector of Pakistan

Sajid¹,

Wasim²,

Hussain³

et al. 2019

Adv. Sci. Technol. Res. J.

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Designers are facing the principal problems of effective decision making at the initial design stage of product development, which ultimately contribute to profit loss, low quality and increased time to launch the product onto the market. It requires a lot of knowledge and experience. Tools are required to analyze and ensure that crucial decisions have strong foundation before implementation. Discrete event simulation provides such a tool and has got potential to assist in decision making before final implementation. This research work aims measuring the benefits of transformation to lean product development (LPD) via simulation. Simulink-MATLAB tool was used for this purpose. The whole work is limited to design and cost estimation cells of a manufacturing company and consists of two phases. The first phase deals with the assessment of current working model of design and cost estimation cells. The areas for improvements were recognized at this phase. The proposed model for transformation to LPD was developed in the second phase. Four lean enablers namely product values, knowledge-based engineering, setbased concurrent engineering and poke-yoke were incorporated to further enhance the operation of the proposed model. This research work constitutes a useful case for practitioners.

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