Taiichi Ohno, a Japanese industrial engineer, is regarded as the founder of the Toyota Production System. Ohno discovered seven lean wastes (Muda in Japanese) in manufacturing processes while looking for better ways to optimise resources (the 8th waste was added in the 90s).
The 8 wastes are known as TIMWOODS —
- Transportation
- Inventory
- Motion
- Waiting
- Overproduction
- Over-Processing
- Defects
- Skills
The 8 waste methodology was initially designed for the automotive industry. However, as time passed, multiple i
