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Industrial engineering

classification of non-value-adding activity in production into overproduction, waiting, transport, overprocessing, inventory, motion and defects.

In industrial engineering, seven wastes refers to classification of non-value-adding activity in production into overproduction, waiting, transport, overprocessing, inventory, motion and defects. This meaning comes from Ohno (1988) in Toyota Production System.[1]

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References

Ohno, T. (1988). Toyota Production System. Productivity Press. ISBN 9781000056488

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