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What is LEAN? LEAN made popular by Toyota focus primarily on reduction of Muda (waste) to improve value to the customer. Muda is a Japanese term for effort that is unproductive. The seven wastes include:

Transportation - when a product/information is moved it can be damaged, lost, delayed and additional cost can be incurred that does not result in value to the customer.
Inventory - requires capital outlay by the customer or the manufacture.
Motion - Damage resulting from transportation through the manufacturing process or injury to workers.
Waiting - Time spent waiting for a product/service during transportation or processing.
Over- processing - Additional work is done on a product/service than is desired by the customer.
Over - production - Product /service produced that is more than the customer requires.
Defect - Rework or rescheduling.

LEAN is founded on the belief that waste can be eliminated and asks the question does the process step provide value from the customer perspective.

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