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Backlog

12/17/2018

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Backlog
  A backlog is every customer order that has been received as an order that has not yet fulfilled the customers request.

Examples

  • Customer orders that have not been shipped.
  • Services that have not been fulfilled.
  • Emails that have not been answered.
  • Information requests which have not been responded to. 
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Transportation Waste

12/17/2018

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Transportation Waste
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  Transportation waste is any unnecessary movement of people, products, materials or information.

Examples:
  1. Moving parts across facilities.
  2. Walk excessive distances to retrieve tools.
  3. Retrieving or storing, information, files and data.


Caused by:

  1. Functional or widespread equipment, poor layout.
  2. Minnimal cross-training of work centers.
  3. Queue points in and out of operations. 
  4. Tools not prioritized by usage and located close to the point of use.
  5. Information located in "storage" centers.
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Inventory Waste

12/17/2018

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Inventory Waste
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  Inventory waste is any unnecessary storage of materials, products or information.


Examples:
  1. Excessive raw materials.
  2. Unsold finished goods.
  3. Excessive amounts of MRO items.
  4. Information and data that is being stored but not used.
  5. Excess supplies, including office supplies.
  6. Emails sitting in inbox.

Causes of excess inventory:
  1. Working to a push system or a forecast.
  2. Unbalanced workloads.
  3. Buying to many of items.
  4. Batching
  5. Inefficient or poor planning and scheduling.

Solutions:
  1. Build only to demand where possible.
  2. Stabilize processes and use six sigma techniques to minimize variability.
  3. Remove waste from processes so that inventory (raw,wip,fg,mro) can be reduced.

Question:

  What types of Inventory do you notice at home, work or other places?  How do you think that inventory affects the organization?

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Business necessary or Business value added

12/14/2018

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Business Necessary Work
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  This type of work activity does not meet the criteria of value added work, mainly because a customer is not willing to pay for the product, service, activity or information.  However, the product, service, activity or information although not considered value added is necessary to either protect the company or comply with regulatory requirements. Because of this it must be performed by the organization.  This type of work is still considered wasteful.

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  Although business necessary work can not always be eliminated right away these activities should still be reduced or minimized as much as possible until they can be removed.
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Team

12/12/2018

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Team
  Though the spelling of the word “team” does not include an I, the definition does acknowledge that each individual must do their part.  The word team is defined simply as: a group of individuals who come together for a common purpose or to reach a specific objective.​
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