Excel-based Tools for Lean Six Sigma: Crystal Ball and QI Macros
نویسندگان
چکیده
Experience has shown that as little as 4% of any business produces over half of the waste, rework and delay. Finding and fixing these pockets of dysfunction can dramatically reduce costs and boost profits. According to Authors Stalk and Hout in Competing Against Time, a 25% reduction in delay will double productivity and increase profits by 20%. It doesn’t matter if you’re a manufacturer producing components or a healthcare provider producing a service; Lean Six Sigma can help you fire up your profits by plugging the leaks in your cash flow.
منابع مشابه
Identification of the Patient Requirements Using Lean Six Sigma and Data Mining
Lean health care is one of new managing approaches putting the patient at the core of each change. Lean construction is based on visualization for understanding and prioritizing imporvments. By using only visualization techniques, so much important information could be missed. In order to prioritize and select improvements, it’s essential to integrate new analysis tools to achieve a good unders...
متن کاملLean six sigma process improvement in specimen receiving to improve stat chemistry turnaround times
Objective: As a consequence of stat turnaround times (TATs) chronically exceeding 60 minutes, our laboratory was facing pressure to divert limited resources toward the implementation of an emergency department satellite laboratory. Peer-reviewed literature in clinical laboratory quality assurance and improvement indicates that between 60-70% of errors occur at the pre-analytical level. Thus...
متن کاملCrystal Ball ® and Design for Six Sigma
In today’s competitive market, businesses are adopting new practices like Design for Six Sigma (DFSS), a customer driven, structured methodology for faster-to-market, higher quality, and less costly new products and services. Monte Carlo simulation and stochastic optimization can help DFSS practitioners understand the variation inherent in a new technology, process, or product, and can be used ...
متن کاملCrystal Ball for Six Sigma Tutorial
In an increasingly competitive market, businesses are turning to new practices like Six Sigma, a structured methodology for accelerated process improvement, to help reduce costs and increase efficiency. Monte Carlo simulation can help Six Sigma practitioners understand the variation inherent in a process or product, and in turn, can be used to identify and test potential improvements. The benef...
متن کاملتأثیر اجرای رویکرد شش سیگما در کاهش مدت اقامت بیماران بستری در مرکز آموزشی و درمانی فیروزگر؛1387
Introduction: The competitive condition of the world is such that the organizations make quality improvement, increase customers' satisfaction, reduce costs and increase productivity. Existence of such environment cause the variety technique and approaches such as total quality management, re-engineering, value engineering, lean production and Six Sigma. Six Sigma as the newest program of quali...
متن کامل