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Lean laboratory
A lean laboratory is one which is focused on testing products and materials to deliver results in the most efficient way in terms of cost or speed or both. Lean laboratory is a management and organization process derived from Lean Manufacturing and the Toyota Production System (TPS).〔Womack, James P., Jones, Daniel T., and Roos, Daniel (1991), ''The Machine That Changed the World''〕 The goal of a Lean laboratory is to use less effort, fewer resources, and less time to test incoming samples. Lean laboratory programs are generally associated with Food, Beverage, Life Science and Pharmaceutical companies.
==Overview==
Healthcare companies operate in highly regulated manufacturing environments 〔Kirsch, Clifford E., Trelease, Nathaniel T. (2004), Advising High-Technology Companies ISBN 1-4024-0396-8〕 which often necessitate a great deal of resources, time and money, being expended in the testing, release and Quality Assurance of their products. In recent years there has been a drive to adopt a more Lean approach both in the manufacturing and testing of products. The advances in Lean thinking developed and refined in the automotive industry initially by Toyota (TPS),〔Toyota Production System, Taichi Ohno (1988), Productivity Press, p 8, ISBN 0-915299-14-3〕 are now being used as best practices across all manufacturing sectors.〔Hobbs, Dennis P. (2003), Lean Manufacturing Implementation: A Complete Execution Manual for Any Size Manufacturer, ISBN 1-932159-14-2〕 Lean Laboratory shares its origins with Lean Manufacturing and utilises the same tools to deliver the most efficient and least wasteful process. Tools such as Kaizen, Just In Time (JIT), Heijunka and Six Sigma.〔Pyzdek, Thomas (2003), The Six Sigma Handbook〕
The principles of lean manufacturing have been slow to migrate to laboratories because they are quite different from manufacturing environments. While most of the key principles of traditional Lean still apply, there are many unique challenges involved in effectively implementing them in laboratories. Compared to manufacturing environments most analytical and microbiological laboratories have a relatively low volume of samples but a high degree of variability and complexity. Many standard lean tools are not a good fit, however Lean can be applied to labs.〔Zidel, Tom (2006), A Lean Guide to Transforming Healthcare ISBN 0-87389-701-3〕 A generic approach is not suitable for laboratories but careful adaptation of the techniques based on a thorough understanding of Lab operations will deliver significant benefits in terms of cost or speed or both.
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