Undertaking Security Projects: The Value of External Managers The field of health and safety at work is becoming increasingly complex and several sub-fields, which are often highly technical, are starting to appear or to evolve. Machine safety is a prime example of...
Sources of Waste: Continuous Improvement and Safety In a series of seven blogs, we briefly discussed each source of waste of the lean manufacturing or Muda (無駄, a Japanese word meaning “wastefulness; uselessness”) methodologies, namely: defects, inventory,...
Sources of Waste: Overproduction Like we established in our previously published blogs on continuous improvement and lean management or Muda (無駄), the latter a Japanese word meaning “wastefulness; uselessness”; it is easier to define the different sources of waste as...
Sources of Waste: Transport Any transport or movement of a product or material without added value is considered a source of waste among the seven specified in lean manufacturing or Muda (無駄), the latter a Japanese word meaning “wastefulness; uselessness”. Although...
Sources of Waste: Waiting Waiting is one of the seven sources of waste considered in lean manufacturing or Muda (無駄), the latter a Japanese word meaning “wastefulness; uselessness”. It is the “act” of doing nothing or working slowly while waiting for a previous step...
