ESSAY: Lean Manufacturing

Participate in the following discussions: Discuss the 7 sources of waste and the components of a Lean Production Environment.

Lean Manufacturing

The current world needs organizations and companies to be competitive. This can only happen by increasing the value of products that produce and reducing the energy as well as input that is needed to come up with an output (Dennis, 2016). This is the main concept of lead production. Reducing the amount spent during production and having more gains at the end of the process a strategy that most business need to apply. Lean production is characterized by various wastes that need to be eliminated.

The first waste is in the form of defects as they interfere with the resources, time as well as customer satisfaction. For instance, the poor design of the work environment is n defect that affects production (Kolberg et al., 2017). Excess processing is the second waste, and it is associated with poor communication channels and human error that lead to more costs than benefits. Overproduction is the third waste as it leads to the utilization of resources that are not in demand or needed (Marodin et al., 2019). Waiting is the fourth waste since it occurs out of poor process design and lack of standard work. The fifth waste is inventory. There is a holding cost that is associated with inventory and purchasing items that are not needed. The sixth waste is on transportation. This is characterized by long handling components and a huge distance between the operations plants (Mrugalska & Wyrwicka, 2017). The distance between the production sectors needs to be minimized to ensure there is not cost incurred during transportation. The seventh waste is the non-utilization of talent. An organization that fails to…