– Unnecessary walking or reaching to set up the work piece
– Making more spot welds than necessary
– Making more pieces than the customer demands
There are eight different kinds of muda, as shown in Figure2.7.
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Also
shown is the remarkable 5/95 ratio of value to muda common in most oper-
ations. Most of our day-to-day activity is muda. Hence Taiichi Ohno’s great
line: “True cost is the size of a plum seed.”
But this also represents a tremendous opportunity. Think of waste as a
bank account full of our money. We need to learn how to make withdrawals.
Motion
Wasted motion has ...
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