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Lean Bronze

Category - Continuous Improvement

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The 7 classic wastes in lean include which grouping of concepts below?
  1. Overproduction, inventory, defects, over-processing, waiting, motion, and transportation.
  2. Overproduction, marketing, returned products, over-processing, waiting, motion, and lack of training.
  3. Just-in-time production, inventory, failure points, over-processing, waiting, motion, and transportation.
  4. Muda, inventory, Muri, over-processing, defects, waiting, and motion.
Explanation
Answer: A - The seven classic wastes include overproduction, inventory, defects, over-processing, waiting, motion, and transportation. A waste walk often identifies the underlying causes, including the wastes of correction, overproduction, waiting for resources, not using just in time inventory, unneeded steps in production, and unnecessary travel around a factory.
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