To improve Quality, First to understand the meaning of "Waste". ( Surface Wastes.... The Silent Killers )

 Surface Wastes.... The Silent Killers

There are four categories of surface wastes that contains 26 specific type of waste.

I. PEOPLE WASTES

There are five people wastes that occur because organizations fail to harness the potential that resides in all work groups. 

Keep in mind that an instance of people waste does not carry with it any blame or attributions.

Human beings have certain skills and behave in highly predictable ways. When people waste occurs, it is the fault of leadership for not properly structuring the work environment.

1.       Goal Alignment Waste

2.       Waiting Waste

3.       Assignment Waste

4.       Motion Waste

5.       Processing Waste

 

II. PROCESS WASTES

There are 12 process wastes.

These wastes arise during the operation of business as a result of process design and execution shortfalls.

There is a great deal of interaction between all categories of waste, and many processing waste could be discussed as “people” wastes, but this would serve to camouflage the detailed etiology of specific waste occurrences.

1.       Control Waste

2.       Variability Waste

3.       Tampering Waste

4.       Strategic Waste

5.       Reliability Waste

6.       Standardization Waste

7.       Sub optimizations Waste

8.       Scheduling Waste

9.       Work-around Waste

10.   Uneven Flow Waste

11.   Checking Waste

12.   Error Waste

III. INFORMATION WASTE

Information waste is a subset of process waste but one so important that it must be called out on its own.

It is the loss of value caused by less than optimum information.

There are five types

1.       Translation Waste

2.       Missing Information Waste

3.       Hand-off Waste

4.       Irrelevancy Waste

5.       Inaccuracy Waste

 

IV. ASSET WASTE

Asset Waste is created by the less than optimal utilization of material and property.

When a building, office supplies, parts, products and service delivery materials are not used in the most efficient manner to add value, asset waste occurs.

There are four asset wastes

1.       Inventory Waste

2.       Work in process Waste

3.       Fixed asset Waste

4.       Moving things Waste