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Projects from our past professional experiences

results

Improved operating room efficiency by 30%.

Improvement in the placement of time slots that respect physicians’ work preferences.

Smoothing the resulting workload downstream of the operating theatre by balancing the distribution of operations and their type over the week – reduced peak load.

35% reduction in waiting times throughout the entire patient journey in the operating theatre by optimising the time at which patients are called for surgery.

Gain of 24m2 by eliminating a superfluous waiting room.

Reduced patient waiting time at intake by 50% by identifying that an intake station was missing for the ambulatory patient flow.

Detection and elimination of a bottleneck in the patient changing rooms, redesign of the plans with the number of changing rooms required as calculated by the simulation.

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Identification of a bottleneck in the staff elevators.

Validation of the sizing of the patient elevators on the volumes projected for 2030.

results

25%(!) increase in production capacity on the coating process by optimizing the planning.

Highlighting the major impact on production of the duration of the pallet supply process: 1 minute spent in this process results in 7 hours of production lost per week. Proposed alternative.

Resizing the capacity of the future of the future automated laundry (+35%) to support the target production.

results

Resizing of 70% of the storage areas (30% undersized / 15% oversized / 25% not planned).

Gain of 30 pallet spaces by synchronizing logistics with manufacturing processes.

Optimization of the replenishment logic (levels and timings) to avoid shortages and reduce transportation.

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Specific areas were found to be undersized (MAL, logistic areas). New quantitative sizing recommended.

Recommended organizational changes to optimize empty container consumption.

results

Production increase of 7%.

Definition of actions in order of importance:

1. Change in the logic of product assignment to the sterilization equipment (retort) +5%

2. Avoid the use of buffers that cause unnecessary shuttle movements +1%

3. Reduce the number of sterilization containers +1%

We have proven that it was not necessary to invest in additional sterilization equipment.

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Development of an interface allowing adynamic monitoring of data with a view of the different sectors.

A real time investigation.

1. Connecting data from different sectors to consumer complaints.

2. Conducting analysis among colleagues.

3. Development of custom investigations.

Prototype selected to be developed on all the sites of the multinational.

results

By optimizing the logistic network and smoothing the supply of products over the day (just-in-time arrival, according to the absorption capacity of the production line)

• 30% reduction in the number of machines required for production.

• 30% reduction in the number of vehicles needed for transportation.

• 20% reduction in the number of kilometres travelled (emissions

  CO2) every day.

• Reduction of delays by 50%.

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