Sterile Processing Departments (SPD) within hospitals are using lean methods to improve process efficiency. In this project, the team utilized the Lean A3 problem solving methodology to examine the root causes of missing instruments at The Academic Medical Center. The team developed several countermeasures through 5S sub-projects, focused on inventory management, facility layout and process flow. The team recommended updating the inventory management system, posting visual work standards and reducing kit variety.

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Creator

• Soofi, Mohammad Shahbaz
• Dombroski, Zachary Edward
• Young, Stephen Foster
• Adrianzen, Diego Martin

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-032514-103357

Advisor

• Johnson, Sharon

Year

• 2014

Sponsor

• UMass

Date created

• 2014-03-25

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Industrial Engineering
• Management Engineering
• Management

Rights statement

• In Copyright