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. 2011 Aug;2(4):415-423.
doi: 10.1007/s13244-011-0097-0. Epub 2011 Apr 21.

Lean manufacturing and Toyota Production System terminology applied to the procurement of vascular stents in interventional radiology

Maximilian de Bucourt  1 , Reinhard Busse, Felix GĂĽttler, Christian Wintzer, Federico Collettini, Christian Kloeters, Bernd Hamm, Ulf K Teichgräber
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Lean manufacturing and Toyota Production System terminology applied to the procurement of vascular stents in interventional radiology

Maximilian de Bucourt et al. Insights Imaging. 2011 Aug.

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: To apply the economic terminology of lean manufacturing and the Toyota Production System to the procurement of vascular stents in interventional radiology. METHODS: The economic- and process-driven terminology of lean manufacturing and the Toyota Production System is first presented, including information and product flow as well as value stream mapping (VSM), and then applied to an interdisciplinary setting of physicians, nurses and technicians from different medical departments to identify wastes in the process of endovascular stent procurement in interventional radiology. RESULTS: Using the so-called seven wastes approach of the Toyota Production System (waste of overproducing, waiting, transport, processing, inventory, motion and waste of defects and spoilage) as well as further waste characteristics (gross waste, process and method waste, and micro waste), wastes in the process of endovascular stent procurement in interventional radiology were identified and eliminated to create an overall smoother process from the procurement as well as from the medical perspective. CONCLUSION: Economic terminology of lean manufacturing and the Toyota Production System, especially VSM, can be used to visualise and better understand processes in the procurement of vascular stents in interventional radiology from an economic point of view.

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Example of value stream mapping (VSM) from the manufacturing industry presenting information flow (red) and material flow (blue)
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