• incogtino@lemmy.zip
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    11 months ago

    I find these articles interesting as it seems that non-manufacturing contexts rediscover manufacturing principles constantly

    Your critical path includes surgeons, your surgeons are a bottleneck, having minimal but non-zero prepped patients available is an inventory buffer

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      11 months ago

      Amdahl’s Law from Computer Science and similar concepts would apply here as well. It seems sharing some of these concepts across domains would be useful in general.

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    11 months ago

    Seems good for the happy path, but I wish they would have said something about their plans for if something goes wrong.

    Like you already put patient B to sleep but suddenly something went wrong with Patient A.

    Will the team continue with patient A and leave patient B to wake up (skip him)?

    Is there a backup team and facilities to continue with patient B as scheduled?

    There are counter measures but which way did they go?