BSA 523 Week 5 Discussion 1 and 2
BSA 523 Week 5 Discussion 1
Chapter 5 of Operations Management for MBAs begins with a description of a lean program used by Virginia Mason Medical Center to improve the process of chemotherapy treatment for their cancer patients.
What is the history of lean and how does this example relate to the original objective of lean? The text (p. 171) outlines the five lean principles of Womack and Jones (2003) as detailed in their book Lean Thinking. How are these principles used in the Virginia Mason Medical Center example?
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BSA 523 Week 5 Discussion 2
Watch the video “Stockless Production: Push out the Old, Pull in the New” that shows how Hewlett-Packard analyzed push versus pull production systems and implemented a pull system. The video is available on YouTube in three parts:
· “Stockless Production” part 1 at http://youtu.be/yZDRB_z51MQ
· What is the advantage of the pull system? How difficult is it to implement a pull system in a plant set up for a push system? How does Goldratt’s theory of constraints relate to lean and JIT process systems and the pull system? The 10 guidelines of the theory are detailed on pp. 188–190 of the text. Include examples to support your analysis.
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