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Many organizations have jumped onto the Lean bandwagon to eliminate waste with the aim of creating customer value, improving quality, reducing costs and shortening lead time.
To eliminate waste, we must first find or discover them. However, for many people who have become so used to their manufacturing or workplace environment, finding waste or identifying what activities constitute waste may be a difficult exercise.
To make your waste-discovering job easier, we have developed a comprehensive set of checklists for waste-finding in manufacturing companies. The checklists are based on the eight types of Lean waste:
1. Waste of Overproduction
2. Waste of Inventory
3. Waste of Waiting
4. Waste of Motion
5. Waste of Transportation
6. Waste of Defects
7. Waste of Overprocessing
8. Waste of Intellectual (or Under-utilized Talents)
The checklists have a combined total of 65 waste items which could be potentially found on the shopfloor. For each checklist item, the magnitude of waste can be quantified under four levels:
• Magnitude 0 : No waste found
• Magnitude 1 : Very little waste
• Magnitude 2 : Some waste
• Magnitude 3 : A lot of waste
Available in both PowerPoint and Excel formats, the checklists can be applied generally to all manufacturing departments. Users may adopt the checklists as they are, or customize them to suit your specific application or type of industry. Add or delete the checklist items as needed.
The checklists form the basis of a structured improvement plan. Waste items can be ranked or prioritized and assigned to a person or team to develop an action plan for eliminating the identified waste within a certain timeframe.
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This package includes:
1. Waste-finding Checklists (PowerPoint format)
2. Waste-finding Checklists (Excel format)
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CONTENTS
1. Summary of the Eight Types of Lean Waste
2. Waste-finding Checklists
• Waste-finding Checklist: Overproduction
• Waste-finding Checklist: Inventory
• Waste-finding Checklist: Waiting
• Waste-finding Checklist: Motion
• Waste-finding Checklist: Transportation
• Waste-finding Checklist: Defects
• Waste-finding Checklist: Overprocessing
• Waste-finding Checklist: Intellectual
• Major Waste-finding Checklist (a summary total of all the eight types of waste)
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Source: Best Practices in Manufacturing PowerPoint Slides: Waste-finding Checklists for Manufacturing Companies PowerPoint (PPTX) Presentation, Operational Excellence Consulting
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Operational Excellence Consulting, founded in 2009 by Allan Ung, draws from extensive experience at Microsoft, IBM, and Underwriters Laboratories (UL). With over three decades of expertise in strategy deployment, customer experience design, and operational excellence, our mission is clear: empowering global individuals and organizations through Design Thinking and Lean Methodologies. [read more]
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