RT Book, Section
A1 Hanson, Daniel J.
A2 McKean, Sylvia C.
A2 Ross, John J.
A2 Dressler, Daniel D.
A2 Brotman, Daniel J.
A2 Ginsberg, Jeffrey S.
SR Print(0)
ID 56192314
T1 Chapter 20. Use of Lean Principles in Hospital Process Improvement
T2 Principles and Practice of Hospital Medicine
YR 2012
FD 2012
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-160389-8
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=56192314
RD 2024/04/18
AB Lean  manufacturing,  referred  to  commonly  as  “lean,”  comes  from  the  Japanese  manufacturing  process  management  philosophy  derived  mostly  from  the  Toyota  Motor  Company.  Lean  was  popularized  in  the  1990s  with  the  publication  of  the  best  seller  The  Machine  That  Changed  the  World,  a  book  authored  by  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology  research  scientists  studying  global  manufacturing  practices.  This  book  by  Womack,  Jones,  and  Roos  describes  the  manufacturing  techniques  behind  Toyota's  success  and  shows  how,  when  implemented,  these  systems  resulted  in  defect  reduction,  improved  cost  efficiency,  higher  productivity,  and  greater  customer  satisfaction.  The  results  were  remarkable:  cars  with  one-third  the  defects,  built  in  half  the  factory  space,  using  half  the  man-hours.  The  Machine  That  Changed  the  World  explained  what  lean  production  is,  how  it  really  works,  and  how  it  inevitably  spread  beyond  the  auto  industry.  It  was  not  until  2001  that  health  care  organizations  began  applying  lean  principles  to  processes  outside  of  manufacturing.