The October 2017 Machinist's Corner column explains the "eight wastes of lean," for which there is an acronym known as DOWNTIME: Defects, Overproduction, Waiting, Nonutilized talent, Transportation, Inventory, Motion and Extra processing.
Imported from the CTE archive to seed discussion on MFGAxis.
Originally published on CTE: 2017-10-15
CTE source: https://ctemag.com/articles/machinists-corner-look-d-o-w-n-t-i-m-e/
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