AN EXAMPLE OF HOLISTIC IMPROVEMENT

摘要

The need to improve an organization that manufactures a biopharmaceutical product provides a good example of holistic improvement at work.rnThe organization had developed a new blockbuster drug and was creating a manufacturing process to produce it. Soon, it became clear the manufacturing process was not going to meet market demand. An assessment of the entire organization was done, and it was determined that organization-development process improvement was needed. A holistic approach would address this broad range of issues.rnUsing lean techniques, batch release cycle times were reduced by 35 to 55%, depending on how the product sped up product release and reduced inventory and manufacturing costs. Six Sigma techniques increased process understanding and increased yield by 20%.