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Question added by shaikh wajeed ahmed mahmood shaikh , PRODUCTION ENGINEER ( LINE LEADER ) , YAZAKI INDIA LTD ( JAPANESE BASE )
Date Posted: 2013/07/13
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Ahmed Alsaigh
by Ahmed Alsaigh , Quality Manager , General Electric - Saudi Arabia

the Main objective in Lean system is to eliminate the wastes in production. there are 7 wastes in production:

  1. Transpiration.
  2. inventory.
  3. Moving.
  4. waiting
  5. over production.
  6. Over processing
  7. defectives

knowledge can be considered as 8th waste

FUAD ALNUMAN
by FUAD ALNUMAN , General Manager of HiTech Steel company , HiTech Steel

Lean production began as a manufacturing technique to enhance efficiency and profitability.
Its primary focus is speed of output by waste elimination.
Waste is anything that does not add value to the end product.
Many industries aside from manufacturing are now adopting lean principles.

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