OPERATIONAL RESEARCH IMPROVES BIOMANUFACTURING EFFICIENCY

Operational Efficiency

The fields of engineering and management associate efficiency with how well a relevant action is performed, i.e. ‘‘doing things right’’, and effectiveness with selecting the best action, i.e. ‘‘doing the right thing’’. Thus, a firm is effective if identifies appropriate strategic goals, and efficient if it achieves them with minimal resources. This chapter focuses on operational efficiency, or ...

Operational Research in education

Operational Research (OR) techniques have been applied, from the early stages of the discipline, to a wide variety of issues in education. At the government level, these include questions of what resources should be allocated to education as a whole and how these should be divided amongst the individual sectors of education and the institutions within the sectors. Another pertinent issue concer...

Biomanufacturing : time for change ?

Biomanufacturing In Industrial Engineering

Biotechnology has become one of the primary technology development areas of the 21 century. For a medical device or pharmaceutical manufacturer to remain on the competitive edge, not only is it necessary to satisfy the stringent demands of the biotechnology markets, but those companies must also develop processes that can accelerate the time frame from research and development to manufacturing ...

Five critical strategies for achieving operational efficiency.

I n a recent report that summarizes the reasons that hospitals undertake construction projects, “operational efficiency and patient flow” are cited as the most common objectives (Carpenter 2004). Intuitively, improvements in operating efficiency should flow from more modern and efficient building systems, streamlined clinical and business processes, more appropriate departmental adjacencies, an...