Waste in Engineering Examples
Transportation: Excessive data or information handoffs
Inventory: Requirements, specifications, documents waiting to be processed, test data waiting to be validated
Motion: Searching for information, or data, attending unnecessary, ineffective meetings
Waiting: Inter-task variation, bottlenecks, failure of supplier to meet customer need dates
Over Production: Mass document releases, Preparing excessive reports, broadcast email of information
Over Processing: Gold plated designs (Including design features not required by customer, Re-inventing what has already been designed
Defects: Faulty, incomplete or inaccurate data, data translations