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Company /Product Description
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Problem
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Results
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Health Aide Provider |
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Untimely filing of medical orders
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Excess processing costs
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No performance measurements
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Compliant with JCAHO regulations
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Medical orders filed within 30 days
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Processing time improved 66%
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Health Aide Provider |
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Increasing costs
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Decreasing revenue
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Inefficient systems/lack of formal systems
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Established standard policies and procedures
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Improved computerized scheduling system
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Developed geographic zones to minimize travel cost
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Staff utilization increased 7%
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Overtime costs decreased 13%
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Reimbursable expenses decreased 22%
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| Electromagnetic Interference Shielding |
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- Updated documentation
- Visual aides
- New manuals (work instruction)
- Increased productivity
- reduced scrap 25% annually
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| Environmental Test Chambers |
- Severe space constraints
- Large volumes of WIP
- Long delivery and leadtime
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- Established four teams trained in lean concepts and problem solving
- Created a Value Stream map
- Established a KanBan system
- Developed a Standard Work
- Decreased WIP to 87 units
- Improved leadtime 73%
- Improved delivery to 100% ontime
- Decreased rework 30%
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Injection Molding |
- Cumbersome, inefficient information system
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- Accounting and software implemented in less than five months.
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