There Are Seven Types Of Waste








  • INVENTORY Maintaining excess inventory of raw mat’ls, parts in process, or finished goods.
  • CONVEYANCE Wasted effort to transport materials, parts, or finished goods into or out of storage, or between processes.
  • PROCESSING Doing more work than is necessary
  • OVERPRODUCTION Producing more than is needed
  • WAITING Any non-work time waiting for tools, supplies, parts, etc..
  • MOTION Any wasted motion to pick up parts or stack parts. Also wasted walking
  • CORRECTION Repair or Rework