Lean techniques are used to eliminate waste and deliver value to customers faster, while Six Sigma is used to help identify, understand, and reduce process variability. Both are continuous improvement methodologies, and neither is as powerful alone as when combined with the other. Lean and Six Sigma are helping labs improve turnaround time, cost, quality, and morale. This CD-ROM, containing PowerPoint presentations and audio from the June 15, 2005, AACC audioconference Lean/Six Sigma: Complementary Methods to Improve Laboratory Operations, will show you how Lean principles and Six Sigma tools can be combined and applied to the clinical laboratory, no matter what the size of your lab. Find out how you can start using these methodologies today!
Publisher: American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC)
Authors: Bradley Karon, MD, PhD, Charie Vathanaprida, Twyla Richard, MLT (ASCP), P. Shawn Mitchell, MSc, MT (ASCP)
Copyright: 2005
