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  The waste of resources   The waste of resources is an additional waste for the seven wastes (muda) of lean manufacturing, it is the non efficient use of your lights, heat and power. This waste is a common waste in many organizations with employees often doing at work what they would never do at

  The waste of Talent or creativity   The waste of Talent, creativity or your people is an addition to the seven wastes of lean manufacturing (Muda), it is the failure to make good use of your employees; all of them. Your employees are your most valuable resources when it comes to ensuring that the

  The Waste of Defects   Defects are one of the seven wastes of lean manufacturing or 7 mudas, defects are when products or service deviate from what the customer requires or the specification. When you talk about waste most people think of defects rather than the other wastes such as waiting and transportation. The

  The Waste of Waiting   Waiting is one of the seven wastes of lean manufacturing (or 7 mudas), it is the act of doing nothing or working slowly whilst waiting for a previous step in the process. How many times have you seen operators stood waiting for a previous operation, a delivery of products

  The Waste of Overprocessing Overprocessing is one of the seven wastes of lean manufacturing (or 7 mudas); Overprocessing is adding more value to a product than the customer actually requires such as painting areas that will never be seen or be exposed to corrosion.   The costs of the waste of Overprocessing By adding

  The Waste of Overproduction   Overproduction is the worst of the seven wastes of lean manufacturing (7 Mudas), overproduction is making products in too great a quantity or before it is actually needed leading to excessive inventory. Overproduction is the worst of the seven wastes as it obscures all of the other problems within

The Waste of Inventory Inventory is one of the seven wastes of lean manufacturing (or 7 Mudas). Inventory is the raw materials, work in progress (WIP) and finished goods stock that is held, we often hold far more than is required to produce goods and services when the customer wants them using Just in Time

The waste of Transport Transport is one of the seven wastes of lean manufacturing (muda), it is the movement of products from one location to another. This could be from the machining shop to the welding shop, or from the production facility in china to the assembly line in America. This transportation adds no value

  The waste of motion Motion is one of the seven wastes of lean manufacturing or the 7 mudas. Waste being a process step that is not value adding, moving is not necessarily working! If you have read the page regarding value add and non value add then you will understand that only a process

How much Value do we Add in our processes? Many studies have shown that we only add value to a product for less than 5% of the time, the rest of the time is wasted! If you were to do a value stream map of your value stream you may be surprised (horrified) at what