
The 7 Wastes of Lean Course
Wage War on Waste
Know your enemy! Success with lean begins with learning to discern the difference between value and waste, and focusing your efforts to overcome your true enemy: waste!
Create Processes that Flow
Progressively improve flow and eliminate bottlenecks in all your processes as you deal with the 7 deadly wastes of lean. Improve quality, cost, and delivery, and massively shorten lead times!
Build a Culture of Waste Elimination
Train all associates in waste elimination fundamentals, including the 7 classic wastes of lean.
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Course Contents
Value and Waste
Module Contents
- Learn the difference between value and waste.
- Discover all 7 of the classic wastes of lean.
- Understand the importance and goal of eliminating waste.
- Make your processes go “bang, bang, bang!”

Transportation
Module Contents
- Understand why transportation is wasteful and adds no value.
- Learn to recognize the waste of transportation
- Discover 4 tips for eliminating the waste.
- Realize that technology and automation is not the answer.

Inventory
Module Contents
- Understand why inventory is wasteful and adds no value.
- Learn to recognize the waste of inventory
- Discover 5 tips for eliminating the waste.
- Realize that software is insufficient for dealing with the waste of inventory.

Motion
Module Contents
- Understand why motion is wasteful and adds no value.
- Learn to recognize the waste of motion.
- Discover 5 tips for eliminating the waste.

Waiting
Module Contents
- Understand why waiting is wasteful and adds no value.
- Learn to recognize the waste of waiting.
- Discover 5 tips for eliminating the waste.
- Avoid two common traps when dealing with the waste of waiting.

Over Processing
Module Contents
- Learn two definitions for the waste of over processing.
- Understand why over processing is wasteful and adds no value.
- Learn to recognize the waste of over processing.
- Discover 4 tips for eliminating the waste.

Over Production
Module Contents
- Understand why over production is wasteful and adds no value.
- Learn to recognize the waste of over production.
- Understand three reasons why over production happens.
- Discover 6 tips for eliminating the waste.

Defects
Module Contents
- Understand why defects are wasteful and add no value.
- Learn to recognize the waste of defects.
- Discover 5 tips for eliminating the waste.

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