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This waste occurs when there is supply in excess of real customer demand. This waste
masks real production. Causes of excess inventory are:
This is the waste of not using people’s mental, creative, and physical abilities. Causes of people waste
are:
The Syndromes – “Not Invented Here”, “Not in my
backyard”, “Don’t know, don’t care”
Production buffers
Unreliable suppliers
Lack of teamwork
Excessive queue times
Lack of adequate training
Unbalanced workload
Producing to a forecast
Poor communications
Incentive system
Misaligned process flow
Misunderstood customer needs
Long set-up times
Remarks
7) Motion Waste
Motion waste is any movement of people or
machines that does not add value to the prod- Lets get out of the box and see around in Pakistan –
uct or service. Causes of motion waste are:
where can be located these kinds of wastes? This
scope of this article is too limited to cite all areas and
Poor layout
suggest improvement. I leave this to the readership
Unplanned downtime
and their commitment to change!
Unorganized Workplace
Pakistan is a predominantly agricultural country – we
Inadequate process controls
have massive waste (when saying waste keep in
Poor methods
mind it can be any one of the above), in cultivating,
processing and even distributing the products.
8) Employee/People Waste
Our power sector – it is only because of a amalgamate of the above wastes we despite of being capable
are trying to survive without at 30-40% of power.
What kind of wastes are playing role in ruining the
capacity of Tarbela? What kind of wastes are hindering the development of KalaBagh or any other?
Our political system – compare the size of our parliament and the size of similar size countries!