The design, layout, and placement of laboratories have significant impact on lab processes, behaviors, and communications

Although the basic concepts and techniques of Lean are straightforward, adapting them to a particular lab situation and integrating them into a defined process that uses resources well is quite a challenge.

While it might sound like some sort of fad diet, lean in the context of business improvement refers to a specific methodology that originated in the Japanese motor industry toward the end of the 1980s.