When any team investigates its assigned business processes, one of the most important things is seeking opportunities to reduce waste. Every team needs to identify and reduce non-value-adding activities.
This self-paced course explores the 8 sources of waste, DOWNTIME: defects, Overproduction, Waiting, Non-Utilized Talent, Transportation, Inventory, Motion, and Extra-Processing. It’ll help you identify waste more effectively, mainly by breaking it down into these 8 categories. The knowledge and skills from this module will help you improve business processes and become more valuable at any organization.
What you’ll learn
The 8 sources of waste: DOWNTIME
How to identify waste
How to reduce waste
Sorting value-adding from non-value-adding processes