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Seven Deadly Wastes

The summary of discussions at QualityGurus.com

February 2011

What is waste? The eighth type of waste

• Waste is anything that don’t add value to existing Unused Creativity People knowledge and skills that
process. We should avoid waste not only to reduce are not utilized by the company
cost but also it increasing long term performance

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of a process by increasing the focus of workers
and management from non value added activities
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MURI , MURA , AND MUDA 3
The greatest wastes • MURI: it means processes or operations are
are unused talents and strained or overburdened
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• MURA: it means there is imbalance/un evenness ,
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i,e processes , operations , machines or manpwer
Seven Types of wastes (TIM WOOD)2 are sometimes overburdened and sometimes un-
• I suggest that you keep in mind TIM WOOD
(acronym for the 7 types of wastes) every time
us derutilized,
• MUDA: it means waste , i,e not optimally utiliz-
you do process analysis. ing resources .
• Seven Types of Wastes that we are trying to elim-
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inate from our business processes:
1. TRANSPORT Waste - using mail where email
could be used; we need to minimize the amount
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of movements (movement of paperwork is a type

• So, in summary, the highest priority should go to
of transport waste).
overproduction; make only what is needed, when
2. INVENTORY Waste forms waiting to be it is needed and implement robust process con-
worked on, cash not used to generate income, of- trols to achieve the highest quality level. The re-
fice space not completely utilized, storing of un- sult will be a LEAN process.
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necessary documents/obsolete forms.

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non-ergonomic office layout (excess motion/non-
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value added activities)

4. WAITING Waste waiting for information from
another person, waiting for approval, system
downtime, waiting for shared equipment.
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5. OVER PRODUCTION Waste unnecessary pa-

perwork, producing too much or too soon, more
copies produced than needed, more data than
needed on reports, extra “Just in case” steps.
6. OVER PROCESSING Waste occurs when we
do something unnecessary; Redundant processes;
Manual processes were still retained after automa-
tion.
7. DEFECT Waste missing information, errors,
client complaints; by reducing the number of er-
rors, we reduce the amount of rework which in
turn reduces costs and turn around time.
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