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…
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 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…
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 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…
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…
Seven Wastes of Service Much has been written about the seven wastes identified by Taiichi Ohno within the Toyota production system, but how do these relate to a service organization? What are the seven wastes from the perspective of…
7 Wastes of Lean Manufacturing The seven wastes of Lean Manufacturing are what we are aiming to remove from our processes by removing the causes of Mura and Muri as well as tackling Muda directly. But what exactly are the…
Lean Manufacturing Wastes Just what are Muda, Mura and Muri? The 3Ms of waste in Lean Manufacturing. When people think of waste in manufacturing they usually only think about all of the scrap material that gets thrown away or…
Why Implement Lean Manufacturing? If you are considering Implementing Lean Manufacturing or one of your Customers is insisting that you go down this road you are probably asking yourself “what’s in this for me?” There are many companies that…