Acute care is a level of health care in. which a patient is treated for a brief but. severe episode of illness,for conditions. that are the result of disease or trauma, and during recovery from surgery. Acute. care is generally provided in a hospital. by a variety of clinical personnel using.
Under the lean manufacturing system, seven wastes are identified: overproduction, inventory, motion, defects, over-processing, waiting, and transport. Overproduction. The most serious of the wastes, overproduction can cause all other types of wastes and results in excess inventory.
Generally, there are eight types of waste that lean manufacturing strives to reduce or eliminate: transport, inventory, motion, waiting, over production, over processing, defects and skills. One simple way to remember this is as TIM WOODS, which represents the first letter of each waste type.