{"id":6302,"date":"2022-05-26T06:39:28","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T06:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.booksofall.com\/pl\/?post_type=product&p=6302"},"modified":"2022-06-20T03:20:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T03:20:51","slug":"what-are-the-8-wastes-in-lean","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.booksofall.com\/pl\/what-are-the-8-wastes-in-lean\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the 8 Wastes in Lean"},"content":{"rendered":"

What are the 8 Wastes in Lean?<\/h3>\n

5-6 minutes<\/p>\n

A lean organization understands customer value and focuses its key processes to continuously increase it. The ultimate goal is to provide perfect value to the customer through a perfect value creation process that has zero waste.<\/p>\n

What is a WASTE?<\/h3>\n

A waste is any step or action in a process that is not required to complete a process(called \u201cNon Value-Adding\u201d) successfully. When Waste is removed, only the steps that are required (called \u201cValue-Adding\u201d) to deliver a satisfactory product or service to the customer remain in the process.<\/p>\n

These are the 8 Wastes:<\/p>\n

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  1. Defects \u2013 Products or services that are out of specification that require resources to correct;<\/li>\n
  2. Overproduction \u2013 Producing too much of a product before it is ready to be sold;<\/li>\n
  3. Waiting for the previous step in the process to complete;<\/li>\n
  4. Non-Utilized Talent \u2013 Employees that are not effectively engaged in the process;<\/li>\n
  5. Transportation \u2013 Transporting items or information that is not required to perform the process from one location to another;<\/li>\n
  6. Inventory or information that is sitting idle (not being processed);<\/li>\n
  7. Motion \u2013 People, information or equipment making unnecessary motion due to workspace layout, ergonomic issues or searching for misplaced items;<\/li>\n
  8. Extra Processing \u2013 Performing any activity that is not necessary to produce a functioning product or service.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Later, the Lean concept was adapted by Eric Ries in his famous book, Lean Startup. The 8 Scrum Wastes<\/p>\n

    5 Step Lean Approach<\/h3>\n

    The five-step thought process for guiding the implementation of lean approach is easy to remember, but not always easy to achieve:<\/p>\n

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    1. Specify value from the standpoint of the end customer by product family.<\/li>\n
    2. Identify all the steps in the value stream for each product family, eliminating whenever possible those steps that do not create value.<\/li>\n
    3. Make the value-creating steps occur in tight sequence so the product will flow smoothly toward the customer.<\/li>\n
    4. As flow is introduced, let customers pull value from the next upstream activity.<\/li>\n
    5. As value is specified, value streams are identified, wasted steps are removed, and flow and pull are introduced, begin the process again and continue it until a state of perfection is reached in which perfect value is created with no waste.<\/li>\n
    6. 5 steps Lean Approach<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Agile, Lean and Scrum<\/h3>\n

      Lean came much earlier than the Agile Manifesto. It emerged in postwar Japan in automobile factories that wanted to be more productive.<\/p>\n

      The Figure shown below can easily be misunderstood that Agile is a subset of Lean, and in turns, Scrum is a subset of Agile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"