When thinking Lean, you should always be thinking about waste. Each business potentially has 7 Deadly Wastes according to Lean thinking.
The 7 wastes are:
• Defects
• Overproduction
• Transportation of product
• Waiting
• Inventory
• Motion of people
• Processing
Students participating in a education program at IDEXX Laboratories made a video to illustrate the 7 wastes. This video reminds me of the Toast Kaizen video.
Do you have a favorite 7 or 8 Wastes video that you use for demonstration with your teams?
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