Types of wastage and waste management

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Some waste exists in every system. From manufacturing & assembly, to hospitality, health care transportation and social services, some waste is hidden with in all processes. Identifying and eliminating this hidden waste saves millions of dollars every year for those organizations that continuously use “ Lean” assessment.

These waste falls into seven basic categories: Over production, Defects, Motion, Transportation, Inventory, over processing and Waiting. These wastes increase cost while adding no value from the customer’s perspective. They also extend the period of Return On Investment (ROI) and help to demoralize energetic workers. The seven hidden wastes are the enemy of people trying to improve processes in all industries.

First identify the hidden wastes and then remove them. Where do the seven Hidden Wastes exist with in your Process?

1)      Over Production
2)      Defects and Rework
3)      Motion
4)      Transportation
5)      Inventory
6)      Over Processing
7)      Waiting Time.

Overproduction means 

“Producing the products in excess quantity which are not required for next operation or Customer.”

 Over production waste occurs when we manufacture, assemble, or build more than what is needed. We make some thin just in case instead of Just in time (JIT). In accurate scheduling, long lead times, long changeovers and not being close enough to our customers to understand there changing needs leads us to longer production runs. We worry that our customer might need more while we must suffer with the associated cost of unsold goods or services.

 Look for processes producing more than is being “pulled” by the customer and requiring storage between processes.

 Reduce by improving change over and set up times and balancing production lines.

 Overproduction increases Money spend for:

 - Energy

- Record keeping

- Documentation

- Tooling Cost

- Manpower cost

- Overheads

- Space for Storage

- Inventory cost(Reduction in Inventory Turns ) This is hidden money.

 Why ? Overproduction

 1. No confidence in process

2. No confidence on set-up Quality

3. No confidence on equipment

4. No confidence on people (Operator. Availability)

5. Meaningless increasing efficiency

6. Available = Make Use …. Concept followed.

 How to avoid Overproduction

 1. Do not produce more than next process demand

2. Build confidence in process, set-up

3. Improve m/c condition

4. Improve attendance / multi-skilling

 Indirect ways of reducing over-production

 1. Reduce Finish Goods area

2. Reduce space between two operations

3. Implement 100 % 2 S

 Management’s role:-

 • Communicate to all for following the concept... Produce when next process demands.

• Decide WIP norms and FG Norms.

 Overproduction results in

 a) Increasing rejection, scrap

b] Reducing CASH-FLOW

c] More searching and sorting

d] BAD 5 S

e] Moving Company towards opposite direction of world Class

 Overproduction HIDES

 A] Waste of WAITING

B] Waste of MOVEMENT

C] Waste of TRANSPIRATION

D] Waste of PROCESSING or OPERATION

Wastes of Defects / Rework

Defect / rework waste happens when we do not have robust preventive system that include Poka-Yoke and mistake proofing techniques. When we cause an error or defect and pass it on to the next operation, or worse, we pass it to the customer; we are accepting rework as part of the process. We lose money when something is manufactured, assembled, or serviced twice. While our customer will only pay us once for the goods or services.

Look for defective, partial, or un-completed products or services and completed units that are reworked or thrown away.

 Reduce by improving visual controls and initiating more complete Standard operations procedures. Implement mistake proofing or Poka – Yokes at the source or the place errors occur.

 Process produces defectives which either to be reworked or scrapped.

 This must be reduced / eliminated by process improvement, making processes more capable.

ACHIEVE ZERO DEFECT at EACH STAGE

 Waste of Motion

Motion waste is the unnecessary movement of people, product or equipment that adds no value to a process. Workers walk back and forth from the work are to supply, around unneeded equipment or perform redundant motions that can be eliminated to speed up a process.

This can be one of the most frustrating wastes for workers and management. The lost time and production rob most processes of opportunity to function efficiently and make the employees work harder. While most processes are not designed to have motion wastes in them, it is one of the first wastes to creep in and cause disruption.

Look for excessive walking, moving, or handling and prepare a complex diagramme of actual process flow.

While operating a machine or performing any activity on shopfloor, some of movements / motions of operator does not add value.

This can be reduced by carefully studying every movement / motion of operator and standardizing each activity.

I.e., loading place / unloading / lifting place.

Wastes of Transportation

Conveyance is caused by long distance between two machines / two locations.

This increases material handling and waste of manpower and chances of damages of products.

Waste of Conveyance can be reduced by Improvement in Layout, eliminating temporary storage methods which need again conveyance of material to final location.

Transportation waste occurs when people, product, equipment, or information are moved more often or further than needed. During multi step processes materials and people are moved from process to process that are separated by distance and / or time. 

Instead of processes being sequential or positioned next to each other, they are far apart and require forklifts, conveyors, or other moving devices to be repositioned for the next step in a process. All this movement adds no value to the process.

Look for movement of people, material or information that does not add value to a process.

Reduce by minimizing the physical distance the material and / or transportation travel with zoning and new layouts.

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