CMA Intermediate · Operations Management and Strategic Management · Lean Operations and JIT
Which of the following is generally identified as the eighth waste, added to the original seven wastes of the Toyota Production System?
The eighth waste is unused employee talent, meaning failure to use workers' skills, knowledge and improvement ideas. It is added to the original seven wastes: overproduction, waiting, transportation, over-processing, inventory, motion and defects, forming the commonly cited eight wastes of lean.
- AUnused employee talent (non-utilised skills)Correct
- BSetup time
- CMachine breakdown
- DSupplier delay
Explanation
The seven original wastes are overproduction, waiting, transportation, over-processing, inventory, motion and defects. The eighth is unused talent or creativity of people, i.e. not tapping employees' skills and ideas. The other options are causes or events, not the standard named eighth waste.
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