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THE HEART OF TPS: ELIMINATION OF WASTE:

Toyota has identified eight major types of non-value-adding waste in business or manufacturing processes, which are described below:

1.	Over Production: Producing items for which there are no orders which generates such wastes such as overstaffing and storage and transportation costs because of excess inventory.

2.	Waiting: Workers merely serving to watch an automated machine or having to stand around waiting for the next processing step, tool, supply, part, etc, or just plain having no work because of stock outs, lot processing delays.

3.	Unnecessary Transport: Carrying WIP long distances, creating inefficient transport, or moving materials, parts, or finished goods into or out of storage or between processes.

4.	Over Processing or incorrect processing: Taking unneeded steps to process the parts. Inefficiently processing due to poor tool and product design, causing unnecessary, motion and producing defects. Waste is generated when producing higher-quality products than it is necessary.

5.	Excess Inventory: Excess raw material, WIP, or finished goods causing longer lead times, damaged goods, storage costs and delay.

6.	Unnecessary Movement: Any wasted motion employees have to perform during the course of their work, such as looking, reaching. Also walking is waste.

7.	Defects: Production of defective parts or correction. Repair or rework, scrap, replacement production, and inspection mean wasteful handling, time, and effort.

8.	Unused employee creativity: Losing time, ideas, skills, improvements, and learning opportunities by not engaging or listening to your employees.

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