Taiichi Ohno

existing forces of west. Especially players like Ford, simply out performed small manufacturers like Toyota. Challenged by the demands in the markets, especially overseas, Toyota gave the task of making a system which will stand in these conditions to Taiichi…

The term lean or lean thinking is a process reengineering strategy that encompasses principles, and practices to improve and manage processes (Nicolay et al., 2012). There are varied definitions of lean, but the common denominator is to eliminate waste and improve efficiency. Radnor, Holweg, and Waring (2012) noted lean as a process improvement strategy leaders adopted to improve operational efficiency in 51% of service companies. Al-Balushi et al. (2014) noted some healthcare managers use lean…

Why Should U.S. Companies Invest in Lean Manufacturing? In today’s global market there is an increased need for companies to be able to compete with one another more proficiently. United States manufacturing companies have learned the hard way that it is difficult to compete with manufacturing firms from other countries. Overseas manufacturing firms have traditionally lacked the capital to compete with their United States counterparts in terms of scale, but have nonetheless been capable of…

The Lean Startup Essay #2 Book Report October 15, 2017 Introduction: “The Lean Startup" is a book by Entrepreneur, Eric Ries. Ries begins the book by telling stories of his various entrepreneur ventures and why they ultimately failed. He goes into what an entrepreneur is by his definition; “an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty”. He discusses the misconceptions that individuals have about what it is to be an entrepreneur and…

Henry Ford: An Influential Figure From the days of Leonardo Da Vinci until the days of Karl Benz, many cars models were introduced. Steam, electric, and gasoline models were invented. No one knows to whom exactly lays the credit of inventing the automobile, but on the other hand, no one doesn’t know the Ford Model T car.When “the time production ceased for the Model T in 1927, more than 15 million cars had been sold --or half the world's output” (Lacocca, 1998). All this industrial glory…

Value Stream Mapping (“VSM”) is a lean manufacturing or lean enterprise technique used to document, analyze and improve the flow of information or materials required to produce a product or service for a customer [1]. In the Emergency Department, the customer is the patient and the product is the service rendered. Central to Value Stream Mapping in the Emergency Department (“ED”) setting is its focus on the patient with analysis of activities viewed from the patient’s perspective. VSM is a…

Task 1 a) Why business tends to give significance to the operations management? (1.1) 1.1.1 What is Operation Management (OM)? Operation Management is an activity of organizing the resources which are linked to the production and delivery of products and services (Iris). The mangers of operation management have a primary duty of processing the input into the output. They hold the responsibility of using the resources effectively and efficiently during production process. 1.1.2 What are the…

1.0 Chapter one: Introduction “As global healthcare expenditure soars, and as systems are increasingly required to deliver better care to more people using less resource, the challenge to explore the promises of lean thinking is compelling” (Young and McClean, 2009 p.309). In the United Kingdom (UK) for instance there was a serious rise in public healthcare spending from 3% in 1960 to 7.8% in 2010 (Pettinger, 2015). Although healthcare spending has falling as percentage of a GDP in the UK…