What is Lean | Your New Laboratory Production System

The Revolution of Lean Management

Lean management is a quality-based philosophy using a set of methods and tools for transforming an enterprise's operation through waste reduction, improved space utilization and significant quality improvements.

Lean philosophy was originally developed by Toyota (yes, the car manufacturer), but these methods have valuable application in the clinical laboratory.

Lean is not the next "flavor of the month healthcare initiative"; economic and productivity gains in US laboratories that have implemented lean continue to surpass all industry benchmarks.

We describe lean as "doing twice as much work with half as much effort (labor), in half the space, in half the time, with half the needed inventory on site."

Our Lean Transformation program eradicates waste in its many forms within day-to-day processes.