Lean Manufacturing: Slim Your Waste

• Transporting—Waste from transporting and moving supplies, materials, work-in-process, and inventory around the plant;

• Inventory—Raw materials, work-in-process, final product;

• Motion—Unnecessary motion/movement by people; and

• Extra processing—Any actions that do not add any value, such as checker-checking-the-checker and extra processing steps that don’t add any value to the product.