According to Path Links Assistant General Manager Mick Chomyn, in addition
to the very visible results presented above, Path Links was able to target
key areas for investment in facilities, equipment, and IT (information technology)
solutions to achieve maximum realization of benefits identified from the VSM
exercise, thereby unlocking further potential gains toward achieving optimum
process efficiency.
Overall, Path Links has seen the potential for achieving rapid, significant, and
sustained benefits from Lean applications in its histopathology laboratory processes
and is anticipating equivalent gains by extending Lean to all other laboratory
disciplines and nonlaboratory activities.
Once the FSM has been created, Chapter 18 will show you how to create an
action plan for moving from current state to future state.