Only 40 percent of people living with HIV/AIDS in the US are in medical care and only 37 percent are receiving antiretroviral therapy. To limit future transmissions of HIV, high levels of HIV testing and viral suppression are imperative. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have made it a priority for states to help more […]
The Beijing Aquarium is home to a pod of rare beluga whales. High turbidity in the beluga tanks– a quality linked to animal activity – means low visibility. And low visibility means aquarium visitors won’t be able to see the belugas. Moreover, maintaining constant high-visibility conditions is expensive and requires high energy consumption. A series […]
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There are approximately 250-500 refugees arriving in Mannheim, Germany per week, which is also approximately the speed at which the office can hand out papers. There was approximately a 5-week backlog of unregistered refugees, hence there was a need to improve capacity. The actual asylum claim process has a much larger backlog of multiple months, […]
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The Office of The Medical Examiner (OME) in the City & County of Denver, felt their case file process could improve and deliver more value to its customers more efficiently. Using tools of continuous improvement, the OME identified over eleven ways to improve their cumbersome processes. For example: – Streamline the process of locating archived […]
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The High Activity Location Observation (HALO) team in the Denver Police Department monitors high-risk and high-profile areas in the city for criminal activity. In the past, HALO kept a full list of all cameras, the updated lists were sent to Denver GIS every six months, yet Denver GIS and HALO would go back and forth about […]
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In 2012, the Department of Excise & Licenses began serving frozen yogurt to customers in the department’s lobby. The idea: people are in for a long wait so they might as well have some frozen yogurt to make the experience less miserable. Today that frozen yogurt machine is long gone because wait times have been […]
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Cedar Rapids (IA) Goodwill of the Heartland employees worked on a 5S event to improve the layout, organization and movement of donations through their west side facility, using a 5S event format. The team reduced hard goods material movement by 42% with a new layout, and reduced soft goods processing movement by 30%. Download the event […]
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The City of El Paso is set to save $570,000 from an employee-led Lean Six Sigma project related to processes for initiating and terminating phone and Internet services for city staff. The project aims to leverage and expand the use of current and new technology to reduce inefficiencies and improve communications. The following process improvements […]
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Central Florida professional and student chapters of IISE volunteered to decorate the Give Kids the World Village for Christmas. Along with this annual tradition, the volunteers provide industrial engineering support for the village, which treats children with life-threatening illnesses and their families to fantasy vacations. IISE’s Central Florida chapter has spent the last two years […]
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A kaizen event was performed at the Elderbridge Agency on Aging. The goal of the event was to streamline the process to 90% accuracy within one year, and reduce duplication of client intake information by 50%. The team mapped the current state value stream map (VSM) of the process, then brainstormed all duplicate tasks. The team […]
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