In most cases, inventory is wasteful; more importantly, inventory hides all sorts of problems in the company

Six Sigma - How to Discover Waste

Be on the look - out for these 3 major contributors...

1. Overburden / Overdoing
2. Unevenness
3. Process Method

Students Instructions:

1. Identify causes of waste in a manufacturing process that may include:

• poor maintenance
• lack of training
• poor supervisory skills
• ineffective production planning/ scheduling
• lack of workplace organization
• supplier quality/ reliability

Write down a list of all sources of waste that you can identify and add the possible way to reduce, eliminate or think on a possibility of any external resource that can be used for this process. Submit your assignment as an attached Word document.