The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN., is one of America's elite organizations and world famous for the quality of healthcare that it provides. Even though Mayo Clinic is at the pinnacle of patient care, leadership keeps...

This course features a complete set of lecture notes and problem sets with solutions. The objective of this subject is to understand the nature of manufacturing process variation and the methods for its control. The key...

These interactive learning objects focus on concepts that cover a broad-based electromechanical program. The majority of these objects have been created for electronics, but during the next three years (until 2008), at...

This website discusses how Lean principles can improve Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). As is explained on the site, the problem is often not the fault of software- an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system can be...

This paper describes how lean concepts were applied to the healthcare system.Waiting is an activity that few find rewarding or of value; its simply a waste of time that reduces anyone's level of satisfaction. Yet,...