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The 8 Wastes of Lean: Understanding and Addressing Them in Your Organization

Do you know the 8 Wastes of Lean? Waste in an organization is all around us. You want to be able to identify waste so that ...
IndustryWeek

Let's Add a Ninth Waste to Lean: Overthinking

Taichi Ohno, progenitor of the Toyota Production System, identified seven forms of waste, and lean insiders often add an eighth: the waste of human resources. I propose a ninth: the waste of ...
Printing Impressions

Seven Deadly Wastes of Lean Manufacturing

Companies adopting a Lean philosophy strive to remove or shorten time spent on activities that the customer doesn’t value. For example, although steps like estimating and makeready are thought of as ...
Woodworking Network

There are more than just eight wastes!

If you’re practicing lean in your organization, it is almost a certainty that you have heard of the eight deadly wastes. If you really got it together you talk about them every day with your team and ...
Purdue University

Value Stream Mapping: The Search for Adding Value and Eliminating Waste

What Is Value Stream Mapping (VSM)? What is a value stream? A value stream represents the series of actions an organization takes to design, create, and deliver a product or service to its customers, ...
The Business Journals

11 lean thinking strategies to help cut waste from less obvious areas

L-R: Andrea Fryrear, Jenn Kenning, Michelle Bomberger, Jerry Ramos, Laura Doehle, Rachel Namoff, Jared Knisley, Christopher Tompkins, Phil Glasscock, Joanna Swash, Matthew Halle The Business Journals ...