Abstract
Various opportunities exist in a plant that are often overlooked and left untouched in spite of their potential to make profits. These include, for instance, limiting the production of defects, the margin of operation efficiency (man-hour), excess inventories, and missed delivery deadlines. These overlooked opportunities, or slack, are referred to as “Muda” in Japanese. Muda is essentially the waste of manpower, outputs, money, space, time, information, etc.
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© 1994 Yasuhiro Monden
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Monden, Y. (1994). 5S—Foundation for Improvements. In: Toyota Production System. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9714-8_13
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