The 8 Wastes
What if one new perspective could open up the opportunity for infinite improvement—limited only by your creativity?
The 8 wastes are the enemy of performance in every process.
By learning to differentiate the wastes from value, improvement becomes easy, endless, and engages the full potential of every person.
By The End Of This Course,
You Will Have Mastered:
#1
Identifying Waste in Any Process
by distinguishing between what creates value and the 8 wastes of lean.
#2
strategies for eliminating each waste
that are both practical and simple.
That’s a total of 25 videos and 128 minutes of instruction!
What’s Inside The Course
Introduction to the 8 Wastes
Learn the difference between value and waste.
Discover all 8 of the classic wastes of lean.
Understand the importance of eliminating waste.
Understand how waste elimination translates into improved performance.
The Customer
Expand your understanding to include both internal and external customers.
Understand that respecting and serving internal customers is how the external customer is satisfied.
Understand why respect for people is central to lean.
Realize that “lean is service.”
Defects
Understand the direct and indirect cost of defects.
Understand how defects lead to additional wastes to correct or replace them.
Learn to focus on the process and not the person (no blame!)
Ask “why made” and “why shipped” to help identify the root causes of defects.
Over Production
Understand how over production multiplies the other wastes.
Understand how over production is a mismatch of supply and demand.
Learn how Just-in-Time (JIT) is the countermeasure.
Recognize common causes of over production.
Waiting
Realize that the waste of waiting affects people, machines, materials, and information.
Recognize that the root cause of waiting is often upstream of where the waste is observed.
Understand the role of reliability, batch size, workload balancing, and visibility in eliminating waiting.
Learn to be careful about masking the problem with buffer or over production.
Non-Utilized Talent
Understand the history of adding the 8th waste.
Discover five practices to unlock employee potential.
Understand that respect for people is central to lean.
Transportation
Understand why transportation is wasteful and identify many examples.
Discover the relationship between batch size and layout to the waste of transportation.
Discover how larger spaces result in increased waste.
Recognize when transportation automation is a mistake.
Inventory
Learn how inventory increases and hides defects.
Understand how managing inventory is non-value-added.
Understand the risk and lead time associated with carrying inventory.
Reduce inventory with smaller batches, quick changeovers, one-piece flow, min-max levels, kanban, and production leveling.
Motion
Learn why motion is a waste.
Discover that even small motions are wasteful and quickly add up.
Learn that motion waste is prolific in many processes and a large opportunity for improvement.
Extra Processing
Learn the two definitions of extra processing: reworking defects and doing more than required.
Identify many examples of the waste of extra processing.
Learn to focus on first time quality, clarifying customer requirements, and creating and training strong standards.
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