Developing a Lean Process and Automating Your Clinical Laboratory: Does one Precede the Other?
This workshop will provide an in-depth examination of the steps and resulting benefits associated with adopting “lean” principles and automation in your laboratory. It will resolve the debate on whether laboratory automation hardware and software is better used for initiating or sustaining a lean laboratory. Case histories will highlight and justify these new organizational and technological approaches for achieving quality, profitability, and growth. At the conclusion of this workshop, attendees will have the knowledge and skill to immediately use these principles in their laboratories.
Session Chair: Steve Friedland
Introduction to Clinical Laboratory Automation: The Basics
Robin A. Felder, PhD
Overview of Lean Principles
Steve Friedland
Adopting Lean Before Automation: Benefits and Pitfalls
Selecting Instruments That Work with Automation: Avoiding the Incompatibility Challenges
William A. Neeley,MD
Adopting Automation as a Focal Point for Initiating a Lean Process and Design Excellence Programm