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The seven wastes are Transportation, Inventory, Motion, Waiting, Overproduction, Overprocessing and Defects.
They are often referred to by the acronym âTIMWOODâ.Â
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The 8th waste of non-utilized talent or âSkillsâ of workers was later introduced in the 1990s when the Toyota Production System was adopted in the Western world.
So the new acronym is âTIMWOODSâ
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Includes movement of people, tools, inventory, equipment, or products further than necessary.
Excessive movement of people and equipment can lead to unnecessary work, greater wear and tear, and exhaustion.
Some of the countermeasures to transportation waste includes developing a U-shape production line, creating flow between processes, and not over-producing work in process (WIP) items.
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Excess inventory can be caused by over-purchasing, overproducing work in process (WIP), or producing more products than the customer needs.
In-office inventory waste could be files waiting to be worked on, customers waiting for service, unused records in a database, or obsolete files.
Some countermeasures for inventory include:
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Includes any unnecessary movement of people, equipment, or machinery.
In the office, wasted motion can include walking, reaching to get materials, searching for files, sifting through inventory to find what is needed, excess mouse clicks, and double entry of data.
Some countermeasures:
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This includes: 1) people waiting on material or equipment and 2) idle equipment
In the office, waiting waste can include waiting for others to respond to an email, having files waiting for review, ineffective meetings, and waiting for the computer to load a program.
Some countermeasures:
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Occurs when manufacturing a product or an element of the product before it is being asked for or required.
In an office environment, overproduction could include making extra copies, creating reports no one reads, providing more information than needed, and providing a service before the customer is ready.
3 countermeasures for overproduction:
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Over-processing refers to doing more work, adding more components, or having more steps in a product or service than what is required by the customer.
In the office, over-processing can include generating more detailed reports than needed, having unnecessary steps in the purchasing process, requiring unnecessary signatures on a document, double entry of data, requiring more forms than needed, and having an extra step in a workflow.
One simple way to counter over-processing is to understand the work requirements from the standpoint of the customer.
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Defects occurs when the product is not fit for use.
4 countermeasures for defects:
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The 8th waste is also described as the waste of unused human talent and ingenuity.
This waste occurs when organizations separate the role of management from employees.
The people doing the work are the ones who are most capable of identifying problems and developing solutions for them.
In the office, non-utilized talent could include insufficient training, poor incentives, not asking for employee feedback, and placing employees in positions below their skills and qualifications.
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VSM is a Lean management method for analyzing the current state and designing a future state.
VSM is an effective tool for mapping out the processes involved, displaying the relationship between production processes in a visual manner, and for separating value-added and non-value-added activities.
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