Improving time efficiency gathering equipment in the treatment room

Improving time efficiency gathering equipment in the treatment room

Each junior doctor spends on average 29 hours a year just accessing treatment rooms and approximately 4 working days per year collecting equipment. We identified areas where time efficiency could be improved: accessing treatment room door codes, standardising access to equipment in treatment rooms throughout the hospital, implementing the 'procedure-specific' tray (one tray per procedure which ...

Improving and Maintaining the Operational Efficiency of a Semiconductor Equipment

The present work addresses an operational inefficiency problem at a semiconductor equipment manufacturing warehouse, Varian Semiconductors Associates and Equipment (VSEA). This problem is important because if unresolved, the warehouse is unable to meet the part delivery time target of 24 hours during the busy period. The downstream effects of the late part delivery are delayed production schedu...

Energy Efficiency in Agricultural Equipment

Improving on-time surgical starts in an operating room.

BACKGROUND Operating rooms are expensive to run, and hospitals strive to be efficient. The purpose of this study was to evaluate an initiative to improve starting on time in the operating room in an academic pediatric hospital. METHODS We used an 8-step approach to transforming an organization. A multidisciplinary team defined on-time starts, identified reasons for delays and instituted chang...

Improving Efficiency by Weaving at Run-time

Since the appearance of Java several tools have been developed to allow making dynamic changes in Java programs. In general, these tools trades the flexibility for the efficiency of the program. In this paper I present RtJAC, an aspect-oriented framework for Java based on JAC [3], which makes possible to create aspects, specify their join points and weave them into an application, all at run-ti...