Implementation of Value Stream Mapping for Waste Elimination in Public Sectors: A Case Study at Emam Sajjad Clinic, Rasht, Iran

Fateme Sedighi Fashtali, Mohsen Mohammadnoorbakhsh Langroudi and Abbas Mahmoudabadi*

Implementation of Value Stream Mapping for Waste Elimination in Public Sectors: A Case Study at Emam Sajjad Clinic, Rasht, Iran.

In order to stay at todays’ healthy and successful competition, if we are not better than any of
our global competitors, we should at least be as well as them. Lean thinking, as the antithesis
of Muda, provides some techniques in which the value creation activities can run in required
time and prevent additional activities. Basically, lean thinking is called Lean because of providing ways in which the lowest rate of (manpower, equipment, time and space) will be used and the most will be accomplished. In fact, lean production was one of the new viewpoints proposed after mass production.

For implementation of lean manufacturing, many tools are highly proposed while one of the most important ones is the value stream mapping. The value stream map includes two maps of the current situation and the future situation. Current situation map provides an image of the entire production process (including the activities of creating and not-creating value) for managers and executives and the future situation map develops a clear path for implementing lean system on intended system, to be able to apply lean concepts for running the program, continuously and consistently rather than doing lean operation in an irregular and unplanned process.                            In brief, results showed that the existing strategies and suggestions are capable to improve health care system in emergency room. So, the value stream map can be used as an efficient tool in service sections as well as manufacturing systems.

Public Health Open J. 2016; 1(2): 40-47. doi: 10.17140/PHOJ-1-109

 

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