Type of Waste:

Type of waste:
1)Overproduction
-Producing more than is needed before it is needed
2)Inventory
- Maintaining excess inventory of raw materials, parts in process, or finished goods
3)Transportation
-Wasted effort to transport materials, parts, or finished goods into or out of storage
4)Motion
- Any wasted motion to pick up parts or stack parts
- Also wasted walking
5)Over-processing
- Doing more work than is necessary
6)Correction
- Repair or Rework
7)Not fully utilize human resources
- Not using operators to their maximum ability
8)Loss Opportunities
- Failed to launch product on time / capture the market share
- Loss the sales

Tony Lim 13-Aug-2007 Malaysia