Lean thinking turns ‘time is brain’ into reality

Lean thinking turns 'time is brain' into reality.

Intravenous rt-PA is an effective recanalizing treatment for ischemic stroke within 4 and half hours from its onset (Onset-to-Treatment [OTT]), with the best result seen in those treated within 90 minutes OTT. Yet few patients currently are treated in this time frame. From the standpoint of process improvement or a lean thinking perspective, there is a potential opportunity to reduce the time b...

Boomer business: lean strategy turns total joints into thriving enterprise.

What Turns Assistive into Restorative Brain-Machine Interfaces?

Brain-machine interfaces (BMI) may support motor impaired patients during activities of daily living by controlling external devices such as prostheses (assistive BMI). Moreover, BMIs are applied in conjunction with robotic orthoses for rehabilitation of lost motor function via neurofeedback training (restorative BMI). Using assistive BMI in a rehabilitation context does not automatically turn ...

Strategic Application of Lean Thinking

As a result of a recent initiative by the UK Government, practitioners and researchers have been considering the development of lean thinking for construction from a strategic viewpoint. This has resulted in the recognition of a construction business system incorporating long term processes of partnering the supply chain, product development, production of components and project implementation....

Lean Thinking in the Warehouse

The concept of “lean” has roots in mass production, originally in the automotive industry, and most famously, at Toyota, where Ford Motor’s original Rouge manufacturing complex was used as its benchmark. Toyota’s managers studied the text of Today and Tomorrow, a book written during 1926 by Henry Ford. Ford conceived the idea of a moving assembly line, after observing the meat packing plants in...