Professional Documents
Culture Documents
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What is work ?
ADDING
EQUIPMENT RUNNING
VALUE
READING
CHECKING
USING A
CHANGING COMPUTER
DATA
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Who pays for what?
• What does the customer pay for?
Good Product.
Everything else
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Use your wisdom not your money!
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The Elimination of Waste
Benefits:
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There is waste in all processes
Objective: To raise the ratio of Value Added
operations to Non-value Added and Waste.
Operator Time
WASTE NVA VA
Eliminate Reduce
NVA VA
More time available for other activities
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The 7 Wastes
• Inventory
• Transport
• Process
• Idle time
• Operator Motion
• Bad Quality
• Over Production
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7 Wastes definitions
• Inventory
– Raw Material
– WIP
– Stock
• Transport
– Unnecessary movement or handling
– Moving with no load
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Inventory
Too much of anything
Examples:
Large stocks of materials and supplies
Filed paperwork or computer files that are never used
Reports or magazines never read
• Idle time
– Operator inactivity during cycle
– Machine inactivity during cycle
• Operator Motion
– Unnecessary or excessive – walking, bending, stretching, twisting and reaching
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Complex Process
Extra mental or physical non-value added steps
Examples:
Excessive time spent on organizing work or setting up systems.
Too many required approvals for action to be taken
Too many steps to complete a task / E-folders
Reports/E-mails published that are not understandable
Quality in excess of what’s required.
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7 Wastes definitions
• Bad Quality GOOD
? BAD
– Production of scrap and reworking of bad parts
• Over production
– Overunning an unstable process
– Manufacturing ahead schedule
• Worst waste of all
• Produces excess inventory throughout system
• All other wastes are produced as a result
• Hides manufacturing problems
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Bad Quality / Correction
Doing something over to bring it up to standard
Examples:
Spelling mistakes on a document
Inaccurate documents, reports, data, pay checks – or missing information
Inaccurate rumours / little or no communication
High levels telephone activity dealing with mistakes and corrections
TOTALS
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The Elimination of Waste
Benefits:
Reduce Costs
Makes problem solving easier
Improve production capacity
Helps to Identify bottlenecks
Better working environment
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The 7 Wastes
• Inventory
• Transport
• Process
• Idle time
• Operator Motion
• Bad Quality
• Over Production
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