Eliminating Office Waste

Eliminating Overproduction

• Could you create visuals to prevent early processing?
• Could standards be created for each process?
• Is the workflow sequence properly established?
  
  

Eliminating Wait/Queue Time

• Are employees cross-trained to step in when someone in not there?
• Is the workload balances?
• Are all supplies available when needed?
  
  

Eliminating Over-Processing

• Look at the process and streamline or eliminate steps wherever possible.

Eliminating Inventory

• Produce only enough to satisfy your downstream customer's requirements.
• Can you standardize work locations and inventory levels?

Eliminating Motion

• Is your desk set up so that the items you use most often are easily accessible?
  
  

Eliminating Defects

• Do you use standard work procedures and standard office forms?
• Could work aids be made and posted so that workers would know when they were doing the job correctly?
  
  

Eliminating Transportation

• Eliminate temporary storage locations.
• Designate a place for all items.
• Make sure the storage location is near the point of use so that an object is moved as short a distance as possible.
  
  

Question

Have you thought of any ways to eliminate the wastes in your office?

Source: Kaye Krueger, https://www.wisc-online.com/learn/technical/engineering/eng23820/eliminating-office-waste
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