Lean Six Sigma

About: Lean Six Sigma is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1919 publications have been published within this topic receiving 29142 citations.

Optimizing Emergency Department Throughput: Operations Management Solutions for Health Care Decision Makers

Abstract: Introduction: Description of Current Status of Emergency Departments and Hospitals Fixing the Front End: Why Would an Emergency Department Medical Director or Nursing Supervisor Wish to Install Emergency Severity Index (ESI) Triage? D. Eitel and T. Falvo Process Mapping and Workflow Diagramming in Health Care, S. McKniff What is Lean Six Sigma? An Introduction to Lean and Six Sigma for the Health Care Novice, D. Eitel Using Lean-Six Sigma to Accelerate Emergency Department Results, G. Butler , C. Caldwell, and S. Elswick Queuing Models for Hospital Emergency Departments, Y.A. Ozcan The Nursing Perspective and Role in Planning a Simulation Modeling Project: Historical, Experiential, and Future Applications of Complex Adaptive Systems Thinking with an Emergency Department Case Study, S. O'Hara The Physiology of Service Capacity, P. Story and D. Eitel The Door-to-Doc Toolkit: Planning Emergency Department Capacity for Delivering Safe Care, T.L. Burdick , J.K. Cochran , R. Andrews , M.E. Bucco, J.R. Broyles , and K.T. Roche Forecasting the Demand for Emergency Department Services, M.J. Cote, E. Akcali, and D. Eitel Improving Fairness in Nurse Scheduling: Introducing a New Approach Using Auctions and Integer Programming Optimization, M.L. DeGrano Establishing Engineered Nurse Staffing Requirements in the Emergency Department, F. Overfelt Patient Safety Organizations: A New Paradigm in Quality Management and Communication Systems in Health Care, D.B. Dotan Alternative Emergency Care Settings, J. Lifton Appendix A : Case Study-Surviving and Thriving in Emergency Department Chaos Appendix B About the Editors About the Contributors

Quality quandaries : Reducing overuse of diagnostic tests for trauma patients

Abstract: The University Medical Center Groningen in Denmark used lean Six Sigma to reduce the amount of redundant diagnostic tests administered and increase cost awareness among medical doctors.

Managerial accounting solutions: Lean Six Sigma application in the woodworking industry. A Practical aspect

Abstract: The increasing complexity of business relations in the conditions of increased competition, manifested in the process of allocation and use of economic resources as well as in the process of seizing the outlets, has led to a profound revolution in the field of both management and accounting as the main source of information, being of a significant use in the decision-making process. The configuration and complexity of the functional, technical and organisational structure of economic entities, including the variety of carried out activities and the continuous introduction of advanced technologies, are thefactors that assert managerial accounting as an essential component of the accounting system. In this context, entities are constrained to a rational use of the factors of production in which the consumed resources are minimised and the benefits are maximised. In today’s global context, organisations are trying to find optimal solutions to deliver products or services that add new value, satisfying customer requirements at low cost and high quality. These issues can be answered by various methods, including Kaizen (part of Lean Manufacturing), 5Why, Six Sigma, etc. Kaizen is a Japanese word that means Continuous Enhancement. 5 Whys is a technique used in the Analyse phase of the Six Sigma DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve, Control) methodology. It is the great Six Sigma tool that does not involve data segmentation, hypothesis testing, regression or other advanced statistical tools, and in many cases can be completed without a data collection plan. The concepts and methods to be presented in the paper provide solutions based on complex evaluation and reporting systems. At the same time, the paper also includes some of the experience gained in the process of analysing the activity of a company operating in the woodworking industry. Lean Six Sigma can be used with maximum efficiency by woodworking firms. This enables them to achieve superior sustainable performance. The Lean Six Sigma techniques, among others, improves and accelerates processes, reducing scrap and intermediate stocks. Implemented correctly and continuously, Lean Six Sigma leads to visible improvements in the financial results.

Analyzing the Factors Enabling Green Lean Six Sigma Implementation in the Industry 4.0 Era

Abstract: Green Lean Six Sigma has emerged in the Industry 4.0 era as a business strategy contributing to the circular economy by adopting the 3R concept, i.e., reduce, reuse, and recycle. Despite its broadly acknowledged capabilities in the manufacturing industry, practitioners continue to be cautious about its implementation, owing to insufficient knowledge and culture. Hence, there is a need to systematize the existing knowledge regarding this green initiative and also to recognize the key factors enabling its implementation. In the Malaysian manufacturing context, the enabling factors have yet to be identified and evaluated. This current study is the first of its kind to identify and examine these factors and to create a structural model to conceptualize and operationalize this business strategy. The implemented methodological approach includes two steps. Firstly, it performs a systematic review of leading studies on the topic, which are rather scarce in the current context. The second step entails a principal component factor analysis using varimax rotation to finalize the findings. The theoretical and empirical results revealed a structural model with five interconnected key factors, including twenty-seven enablers, that can be used to narrow the existing knowledge gap in the understudied context.