Do you know the 8 Wastes of Lean? Waste in an organization is all around us.  You want to be able to identify waste so that ...

“Muda” in Japanese means waste. Imai says that in Japan, companies especially noted for implementing Lean, such as Toyota, at all levels of managers are expected to spend one hour a day in the ...

Workers who grok muda thoroughly, as Henry Ford's workers did, will recognize as waste any time in which the process does not actually transform the work. The same concept carries over into the fast ...

Muda is the “waste” we are working to remove that is directly hurting efficiency. Waste is any activity that doesn’t create value, in the form of the products and services we offer.

The lesson of using the stationary chalk circle had become synonymous with Ohno. I’m almost sure it created a lot of resentment among Ohno’s engineers, except that no one complained about it.