1. Name the process. Be as specific as possible - rather than "road construction" describe the specific process you are observing such as "pot-hole repair". In References, please name the specific business and address you visited, or provide the website if you made a virtual visit. (1 mark) 2. Describe the "value add" goal for the process. In other words, what is the customer or employer "paying for." For example "filling in an existing pot-hole to make the road-way level." Everything else (travel to site, unloading tools, searching for a shovel) should be considered non-value added activity. (1 mark) 3. List the basic process steps. Provide a break-down step by step of what is actually happening in the process you are observing If it makes your explanation more clear, you may wish to use a diagram or flow chart arrows to show the steps in order. . (2 marks) 4. Identify 4 different examples of waste you observe in the process. Name the type of waste for each example. (Refer to the "8 types of Waste" info in Week 6 Content) Describe each waste in clear detail. What are you seeing, how is it a waste, what is being wasted. (4 marks) 5. Try to quantify the waste - how much time is spent retrieving tooling, what qty of material is scrapped or what time is spent reworking, etc. (3 marks) 6. Make a reasonable and specific suggestion of how each of the 4 examples of waste could be reduced or eliminated. Be as specific as possible. Try not to add cost to the process - for example, adding another person is not generally an acceptable solution. Consider relocating items, improving procedures, introducing Poke Yoke, 5S, etc. (4 marks)