The theme this week is: Reduce the Waste of Movement of people and the transportation of material & tools
This is going to be a great week – if you make it so!
Your Muda walk this week is to look for treasure hunts AKA the waste of motion. Moving around is not work! Value is not being added while people are walking around. Watch for people looking for things; ask why and why and why again. Why is this happening? Why are the tools, equipment, forms, etc. not located closer to the work area? Or where the tools are needed? Go to the shop or a job site at the start or end of a shift and watch for wasted motion. Watch how much time is spent in getting ready or cleaning up? How much time should be spent? Look for ways to reduce this time. Look for workers making trips to the yard, or for people walking around the shop, or even look for when someone has to go to a hardware store to buy material or tools. Look at how often the crews run out of small supplies or consumables. Look for tools that are missing or broken causing people to find new ones.
Look too for the Waste of transportation of goods. This is related to treasure hunts. Any time anyone is moving material, tools or things this is waste. Unless something changes the material or product to add value while it is moving, it is waste. Ask yourself and the workers how to change or reduce the movement or the distance moved. If you can’t change the distance moved – try changing how it is moved to make it safer, easier and faster. Don’t blame anyone but look for systems, policies or old layouts that causes transportation waste.
Go watch for Muda. Record your improvements. Implementing visual controls and the 5S’s can help eliminate these wastes.
Go and See – Ask Why – Show Respect – Do No Harm
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