title: Lean production efforts help save 7.5M dollars in 1 year.
abstract: System undertakes 150 rapid process improvement workshops. Eliminating various types of waste is one of key foci of lean production approach. Time is main metric of methodology; observers measure processes with stopwatches.
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics* / Q000458:organization & administration; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D008910:Minnesota; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000379:methods*