| ign="center"> | | | | people are there waiting to move things or make |
| When many people think of lean manufacturing, it | | | | things happen on too many times or can not find |
| is assumed that means doing less of what you | | | | anything because of the mess. Here are some of |
| need to do the job. But what really is trying to | | | | the wastes that are easily identifiable easiest and |
| achieve is getting more with less. This is not to | | | | easy to remove. But once you get rid of the |
| take shortcuts and make the road working | | | | easy things to see, you can go after the more |
| environment, it is cutting waste and still getting | | | | complex issues such as your shipping process or |
| the job done right. | | | | the supply line. |
| It doesn't matter what you are doing, anything at | | | | These are incredibly complex processes that span |
| work or at home in your daily life, there is sure to | | | | multiple departments and many workers. They |
| be waste in the process. Waste could be defined | | | | need to be identified and a clear objective in its |
| as anything that isn't directly needed to get the | | | | place. We also require a great effort and move |
| job done. It can come in the form of wasted | | | | on. What use to make changes if you can not go |
| movements, having to walk to far away from | | | | ahead with the process and then track progress? |
| your work station in order to get the next part | | | | This takes time and effort, and many people |
| you need. | | | | working together to do the job. It takes planning |
| It could also be wasted handling, having to spend | | | | and putting a team together of all the different |
| a product repeatedly to accomplish a task. It | | | | areas of the company and with different goals in |
| might be having too much inventory and having | | | | mind. When people come together to solve a |
| to pay to store all or circumvent it because | | | | problem and they all start from a different point |
| you're afraid you'll miss something. And all these | | | | of view, they come with many different ideas to |
| other waste have in common is that they are | | | | solve the same problem. |
| inefficient, you waste in your workforce because | | | | |