Eight Wastes: Lean Thinking, #1

By Sumeet Savant

Identifying wastes, eliminating wastes, and achieving cost reductions has never been easier!

Have you ever wanted to reduce wastes from your company's processes?
Have you ever wanted to reduce wastes from your customer's processes?
Have you ever wanted to achieve cost savings, cost reductions, and cost leadership in your company?

If the anwer to any of these questions is yes, you need look no further.

Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt Mentor and Coach, Sumeet Savant, with more than a decade of experience in executing, leading, and mentoring hundreds of Lean Six Sigma improvement projects brings to you a simple, straight forward, no nonsense book which will enable you identify wastes, eliminate wastes, and achieve the cost reductions you have always dreamt of, quickly, effectively, and efficiently.

He shares his belief: "Identification of wastes is the first step towards going lean in any business"

Do Act Now and have a LOOK INSIDE the short book to have a brief experience of the immensely valuable information it has in store for you.

With this book, you will get to,
- Know the eight types of wastes in detail.
- Know the examples of each of the eight wastes.
- Know the causes behind each of the eight wastes types.
- Know the possible solutions to reduce each of the eight wastes types from your processes.
- Try out two activities that will help you easily get used to identification and elimination of wastes.
- And know all these in the least number of words possible – to help you lean your processes and achieve cost reductions faster.

This may very well be the last book you will ever need to identify, and eliminate wastes from your process and achieve overall cost effectiveness.

We are sure about it! And, so will you be!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sumeet Savant
• Release date: Aug 12, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386383376

Sumeet Savant

Sumeet Savant is a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt Mentor and coach, with more than a decade of experience in executing, leading and mentoring Lean Six Sigma process improvement projects. He is a BTech, MBA, and Prince certified Practitioner. He has facilitated hundreds of process improvement projects, and coached hundreds of professionals, White, Yellow, Green, and Black Belts over the years. He lives in Mumbai, India with his family.

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Eight Wastes

Lean Thinking Series

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Table of Contents

Title Page

Eight Wastes (Lean Thinking, #1)

Lean, value, and waste

House of Lean

Five Principles of Lean

Types of Work

Need to remove wastes

The 3 M’s

The 7 Wastes - TIMWOOD

The 8 Wastes - DOWNTIME

The 8 Wastes Activity

Defects

Overproduction

Waiting

Non Utilized Skill

Transportation

Inventory

Motion

Extra Processing

The 8 Wastes Activity

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Sumeet Savant is a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt Mentor and coach, with more than a decade of experience in executing, leading and mentoring Lean Six Sigma process improvement projects. He is a BTech, MBA, and Prince certified Practitioner. He has facilitated hundreds of process improvement projects, and coached hundreds of professionals, Yellow, Green, and Black Belts over the years. He lives in Mumbai, India with his family.

LEAN

Lean, value, and waste

Lean is now a common term, synonymous with process improvement, waste elimination and cost reduction.

You probably might have heard about Lean, or might have some basic idea about Lean, or might be even working on and practicing Lean methodologies

Before we start, let us understand what the term Lean really means.

Formally defined, "Lean is a continuous improvement strategy, focused on maximizing customer value, by minimizing waste in all the business processes, or products."

So, now the question arises, what do the terms Value and Waste mean.

"Value, means something, that the customer is willing to pay for, extending this definition, we can say it is something which the customer needs, and hence expects, from the product or service, for which he buys it.".

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And, by "Waste we mean, any activity or feature that does not add value to the product or service, from the point of view of the customer."

The Japanese term for Waste so defined, is Muda.

Some of the examples of Waste or Muda are,

• Unnecessary travel like driving, or riding.

• Waiting for approval.

• Unnecessary Movement like bending, or stretching.

• Producing more than required.

Though Lean is primarily focused on reduction of waste, the Lean strategies framework is much broader.

To understand the Lean framework, it is a must to be well acquainted with something that is known as the House of Lean.

House of Lean

The collection of Lean concepts, practices, and tools, put together in a container that looks like a home, to act as a framework for implementing a complete Lean system is known as the House of Lean

House of Lean: Goals

The first component of House of Lean is its roof, which represents the Goals of the business.

Most businesses have similar goals as follows,

• Highest Quality

Quality in terms of features and characteristics of the products or services provided to the customer.

• Lowest Cost

Lowest cost in terms of raw materials, man power, and machinery required to design, develop and deliver the products.

• Shortest Lead Time

Shortest time taken from initiation of idea to going to market of the products or services.

The roof of the House of quality is depicted in the following figure.

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House of Lean: JIT