Case Studies
Adopting a Culture of Lean in the Saskatchewan Ministry of Health
The Pharmaceutical Industry and Lean
Laboratories and Lean
Lean & Green™ A Leading Manufacturer in High Tech Sector
Lean Implementation included a series of Kaizen Events, with the various Lean tools applied in the proper sequence (such as mistake proofing, cell design and 5S)
Lean and Green™ Manufacturer of Collectibles and High Volume Products
We facilitated a session with our client’s Team to ensure a shared high level of understanding of Value Mapping techniques that would be required for effective Future State Implementation. The Current State was completed and analyzed. A Future State (FS) and a detailed Future State Implementation Plan was developed.
Hospital - Surgery Prep Center
Surgery Prep Center faced enormous challenges that included significant growth in demand creating lack of space and rooms, resource variation from procedure to procedure and from surgeon to surgeon.
Hospital - Phlebotomy
The results obtained such as reduced TAT and streamlined processes have permitted the Laboratory to further efficiently meet the demands and expectations of its customers.
Hospital - Maintenance
The results have been astounding. In an afternoon, they managed to free up over 600 square feet or about 75% of the room.
Hospital - Laboratory Specimen Receiving
Within the 1st week, the end-to-end process for some tests had improved by 25%. The lab is receiving 75% more with 33% less staff, and delivering the last specimens 1 hour earlier.
Hospital - Haematology Laboratory
The results obtained such as reduced TAT and streamlined processes have permitted the Laboratory to further efficiently meet the demands and expectations of its customers.
Hospital - Food Services
They are introducing 'meals-on-demand', giving patients an opportunity to place orders for food around their schedule, rather than the hospital dictating the schedule.
Hospital - Emergency Room (ER) Call Triage
The emergency room was constantly being interrupted with phone calls. They wanted to be able to answer the calls that they should deal with and not be interrupted by calls that weren't meant for them.
Hospital - Emergency Department Receiving and Admission
Implemented a number of changes to improve flow in the emergency room to reduce patient wait time and overall stay from arrival to discharge. They have reduced patient wait times by 25% to 40%.
Hospital - Cytogenetics Laboratory
There were no formal limits on slides produced. If analysis rate dropped, the number of slides awaiting analysis grew. Now there is a visual cue to show optimum number of slides available for analysis.
Hospital - Core Laboratory
By focusing on improved flow, labs have discovered that they have eliminated waste in their processes with a significant positive impact on cost. Reported numbers show a 25-30% reduction in labor cost per test.
Hospital - Behavioral Health
In six weeks the backlog (85 patients) was gone. Patients calling in were assigned to a worker and given an appointment within a week; this was down from the 5 weeks that were initially required.
4 Day Kaizen Event yields $2,000,000 in Savings
Lean Food Processing at Gorton's Seafood
Looking at ways to eliminate waste using the same essential techniques to enhance flow that Taiichi Ohno invented fifty years ago.
Lean Implementation at Medtronic Xomed
Customer-Focused quality is their highest priority and Lean Manufacturing is its methodology.
LEAN in the Haematology Laboratory
The Hospital for Sick Children is Canada's most research-intensive hospital and the largest centre dedicated to improving children's health in the country.
Lean Implementation at Active Burgess Mould and Design
A successful job shop (low volume, high product mix) that produces prototype and production moulds for automotive and non-automotive industries.
Macro Value Stream Mapping at Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin
There have been six Value Stream Mapping events with 19 improvement opportunities which will reduce lead times by over 40%.
Lean Aerospace Implementation at Messier Dowty
The Messier-Dowty Aerospace Montreal plant is dedicated to the manufacture of big gears for the Airbus A340 and the Airbus A320 families.
Lean Office Implementation at MDS Nordion
3 months after starting Value Stream Mapping, our change notice paper flow is 7 days instead of 28, a remarkable 75% improvement!
Lean Manufacturing In The Electronics Industry
Lean is a challenge in the electronics factory where a large number of different products/models flow across shared resources and assembly lines.
Lean Goes To College
Comments from the New Brunswick Community College concerning a series of Lean workshops we delivered to the Mechanical Engineering Technology class.
Trimming The Fat From Lab Processes
The Lean team at Saint Marys Hospital, a Mayo Clinic hospital, came up with a simple strategy to manage the paper order system for lab work in its ICUs.
Success in Just 5 Days
Sofap Ltd is the largest coatings manufacturer in Mauritius promoting the brands Permoglaze on the local market and Proluxe Coatings for exports.
3 Day Kaizen Event yields $800,000 in Savings
3-day Kaizen resulting in an $800k improvement! Problems included long setup times, late deliveries, bottlenecks, overtime, and expediting.