Definition: Waste
January 20, 2012
Any activity that consumes resources and produces no added value to the product or service a customer receives.
There are seven types of manufacturing waste:
1. Production over immediate demand
2. Excess work in progress and finished goods inventories
3. Scrap, repairs and rejects
4. Unnecessary motion
5. Excessive processing
6. Wait time
7. Unnecessary transportation
Tip excerpted from: The Professional’s Guide to Maintenance and Reliability Terminology by Ramesh Gulati, Jerry Kahn and Robert Baldwin
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