Move to pick up material, process information,or to perform assemblies.

Wait for components , machine’s cycle time or information.

Movement of components within the facility or between facilities.

All inventory, including Work in Process.

Everything related to the production of defects, scrap and defects rework.

Performing tasks that are not value for the customer but necessary for the actual process and its current limitations. Example: packing and unpacking, protection for painting processes. All losses associated with equipment.

Produce more than demand or prior to need.

For many authors the worst of all Mudas, the waste of unused mental capacity of the employees.

Shows the cycle time of workstations of a set of operations.

Diagram representing the motion waste of one or more operators.

Processes arranged in a cell to produce a family of products in a flexible way.

Structures to supply components for workstations ergonomically.

Value chain visualization system.

Mapping the value chain of the entire flow of materials and information.

Diagram representing the materials transport waste at the factory.

Logistic Train to distribute components in the factory.

Requesting material system by placing a signal at a certain point of the stock to control the flow of materials.

Supply of components of a single kind according to the production planning.

Supply of different types of components according to the production planning in Kits.

Structure to store components for the border of the line on an ergonomically way to transport.

Supermarket of components and finished product.

Dispatch process or the transport of components, between factories that share the same production system.

Along the supply chain, between the sale and the supplier, the batch size is amplified.

There are three levels of planning.

Production according to client orders.

Production according to stock requests.

Combines MTO and MTS on the production planning.

Visual system that represents the production for a certain period of time.

Levels the production load to ensure a continuous flow of production and materials.

The time interval until the process of a new batch.

Visual system to group components and absorb long setup’s.