• incogtino@lemmy.zip
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    1 year 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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      1 year 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.