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Lean Thinking in Hospital: Case Study at the Pathology Laboratory

When a good is produced a lot of transformations have to be made in order to satisfy client request. All of the phases are made in specific work-cells: the material is moved between the cells with an high risk of errors or lost of efficiency.

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