The board and members of the Royal Institute of Engineers (KIVI) analyse current political developments during the corona crisis. We provide facts and interpretation from the technological knowledge and experience of engineers.
Logistics prove to be a very difficult problem for the GGD organisation. The timely and effective conduct of corona tests is becoming increasingly difficult in our country. First, there are too many staff and lab technicians get bored. Then suddenly there is a shortage that gets worse and worse. When one problem is solved, another bottleneck arises somewhere else. As a result, organisations in the chain start pointing at each other and a solution gets further and further out of the picture.
Logistics of a chain with many dozens of test sites, laboratories, call centres, suppliers, customers, etc. is also difficult. However, optimisation and shock-proofing against the many unexpected developments that keep occurring in this crisis is possible.
A suitable methodology for this is scenario analysis with Serious Gaming. Traditionally optimising a highly complex chain using mathematical models is almost impossible. Even with traditional scenario analysis, the number of relevant factors of influence has to be reduced so much that the solution becomes unreliable. With serious gaming, however, the effects of different scenarios and outside influences can be examined in such a way that the necessary shock resistance is achieved.
For maintenance and repair of aircraft components and, for example, Defence, this methodology is already used to help players in the chain understand how best to act. The Ministry of Health could also do this together with GGDs and laboratories to improve the logistics chain.
As an independent association, we may be helpful in identifying organisations that can support this.
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The Hague, 10 September 2020
This advice was sent today to the members of the Permanent Committee for VWS in the Lower House.
Do you have any questions? If so, please contact us at E: jan.wind@kivi.nl
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