The 8 Wastes are

Destroying Your
Profits!

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 The Eight Deadly Wastes

Are the 8 Wastes destroying

your profits?
 Understanding the 8 wastes is the
foundation of lean thinking
 You must comprehend them to see the
wastes being generated in your business
 The wastes must be identified before they
can be eliminated

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 The Eight Deadly Wastes
Overproduction

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 The Eight Deadly Wastes
Overproduction

Overproduction - Producing materials or

completing services that aren’t needed
now

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 The Eight Deadly Wastes
Overproduction

We always have excuses for over-

producing. I’m sure you’ve heard (or used)
some of the most common.

“The setup times are long, and since we’ll

use it next month anyway…”
“Since I’m doing it anyway, I’ll just finish
the forms for next week…”

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 The Eight Deadly Wastes
Overproduction
So what’s the big deal? It’s true that the setup times
are long and we do plan to use the material soon.
But what is missing in is that over-production costs
money and time:

 We pay to produce items not needed now

 We pay to move them to the storage area
 We pay to move them from the storage area
 We rent warehouse space to store the extra parts

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 The Eight Deadly Wastes
Overproduction
 We search for the items when we actually
need them
 We expedite new production runs or rerun
the forms when we can’t find what we need
 The line shuts down because we don’t have
what we need
 We scrap the originals because they are
obsolete or damaged when we find them
days or months later.

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 Exercise One
Waste Identification

 List an example of Over-Production from

your process
 Identify a possible reason for this waste
 Recommend one or more actions to
reduce the waste

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 Waste Identification Exercise
Identify 1 example Possible Cause Proposed Action How will we know
of each of the we were
waste types successful?
Overproduction

Excess Inventory

Waiting

Defects

Transportation (Moving)

Excess Motion

Non-Value Added Processing

Underutilized Resources

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