CreateASoft, Inc.
The Process Improvement Company

Blood Center Simulation



Hosni Adra
Product Manager/Partner
 

About CreateASoft, Inc.

• Established in 1992.
• Core technology: Simcad Process Simulator software
• Provide organizations with the required tools and know-how to ensure competitive advantage and sustainability in an ever demanding world market.
  
  
   

The Blood Center

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What is Lean?

• Lean ?
  -- Definition
     - Containing little excess or waste.
  -- Manufacturing
     - Used extensively to eliminate waste and increase efficiency. Also know as the Toyota model.
  -- Service
     - Service and Healthcare Progressively being implemented to improve process flow, efficiency, and working Environment.

Common issues

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Benefits of Lean

• Minimize waste time
• Improve operation efficiency
• Predictable lead time.
• Controlled WIP
• Simpler, well defined tasks

Key to Lean success

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Lean Goals

• Increased process efficiency.
• Reduce travel time (resources/units).
• Control the lead time.
• Demand based production.
• Reduce WIP.
• Reduce the overall operation cost.
• Improve resource utilization, moral.
• Improve overall quality.

Some Lean Methods

• The Kanban
  -- Required in process inventory to maintain high efficiency.
• The Supermarket
  -- An inventory buffer used to reduce the consumer demand variability.
• Single piece flow paradigm.
• Processing to “Takt”.
  -- Frequency of consumer demand.

Traditional Blood centers

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Lean Center

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Single piece flow

• One unit is processed at a time.
• Pre-set sequence of events per unit.
• Single data entry point at the processing step.
• Improved communication leading to reduced error rate.
• Dedicated tasks, requiring minimum training.

Traditional Center

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Lean Center

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Summary

• A lean blood center contains little or no excess waste time. Efficiency is high, with a flexible layout.
• Blood center lean provides
  -- Controlled “lead time”.
  -- Reduce FTE stress and shift workload fluctuation.
  -- Increased quality.
  -- Increased space efficiency.
  -- Increased flexibility and expandability.
• The only way to stay competitive in an ever demanding market.
  

CreateASoft, Inc.
The Process Improvement Company

Blood Center Simulation