Glossary
Seven Wastes
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Developed by Taiichi Ohno, Toyota’s Chief Engineer for many years who was the innovator at the heart of the Toyota quality system, this refers to identified seven barriers to improving quality. They are the 1)waste of overproduction, 2)waste of waiting, 3)waste of transportation, 4) the waste of inappropriate processing, 5) the waste of unnecessary Inventory, 6)waste of unnecessary motions, and 7)waste of the defects.