Q. What strategies can be used for disposal of waste products as renewable resources?
- Landfills.
- Incineration/Combustion.
- Recovery and Recycling.
- Plasma gasification.
- Composting.
- Waste to Energy (Recover Energy)
- Special Waste Disposal.
- Avoidance/Waste Minimization.
Q. How do you get rid of 8 wastes?
The 8 Wastes of Lean Manufacturing and How to Fight Them
- 1- Overproduction. Overproduction occurs when something is created before it is needed.
- 2- Transport. Any unnecessary movement of raw materials, works-in-progress or finished products contributes to the waste of transport.
- 3- Over Processing.
- 4- Defects.
- 5- Motion.
- 6- Inventory.
- 7- Waiting.
- 8- Human Potential.
Q. How can we remove waste of waiting?
Steps that Lean Consultants recommend to reduce or eliminate Waiting Waste include:
- redesigning processes to ensure even production flow or even single piece flow in response to the manufacturing process ‘pull’
- standardizing instructions, training and processes.
Q. How do you get rid of overproduction?
Avoid overproduction by making things only as quickly as the customer wants. Just-in-time inventory lets you hold the minimum stock required to keep your business running. You can order what you want for your immediate needs and limit overproduction by only producing what is needed, when it is needed.
Q. What does Gemba Walk result in?
Rather than work in a vacuum, the company developed the Gemba Walk to give managers and executives the chance to visit the production floor and see how a specific operation is done. This in-person observation allows leaders to see the difference between what they assumed is happening and what is actually happening.
Q. What does the T in the downtime acronym stand for?
Defects Overproduction Waiting
Q. What is a downtime?
1 : time during which production is stopped especially during setup for an operation or when making repairs. 2 : inactive time (such as time between periods of work) napping during our downtime an injured athlete facing months of downtime.
Q. What are the 5 S of lean?
The 5S pillars, Sort (Seiri), Set in Order (Seiton), Shine (Seiso), Standardize (Seiketsu), and Sustain (Shitsuke), provide a methodology for organizing, cleaning, developing, and sustaining a productive work environment.
Q. Is 5S a lean tool?
The 5S System is a lean manufacturing tool that helps to clean and organize the workplace, as well as improve how things are done through standardization. This can be accomplished with the five following steps: Sort: Remove unneeded and obsolete items from the workplace.
Q. What is seiri in 5S?
5S is the acronym for five Japanese words, seiri, seiton, seiso, seiketsu and shitsuke, which signify order, cleanliness, purity and commitment. Seiri (sort) means to put things in order. Seiton (systematise) means proper arrangement.
