Satisfied employees through Lean: Lean as a contribution to the prevention of stress and burnout
Always faster, always further, always more: the demands in the working world are constantly increasing. Stress and strain are increasing, as is the number of mental illnesses. It is estimated that more than 3 billion euros in costs are incurred every year …
The types of waste (8): Misuse of employees
Originally, there are seven types of waste in Lean Thinking. Declaring the wrong use of employees as an additional type of waste definitely makes sense, because valuable resources are also lost here. This type of waste occurs when highly qualified employees, specialists …
The types of waste (3): movement
Of course, movement in itself is not wasteful, but if work processes are interrupted or delayed, this also counts as a type of waste. How often do you experience in offices that you have to walk a long way to get to …
The types of waste (2): work supplies
What are (too high) inventories in production are in administrative areas the work stocks. Orders, invoices, purchase orders… everything that is left lying around and piling up is considered waste. With invoices, this is obvious at first glance: the later I send …
The types of waste (1): overproduction or reactive power
Logically we consider it wasteful to produce things that are not needed – a well-known example of this is the EU – Butterberg. But what about the indirect areas? The overproduction does not catch the eye and does not clog up storage …
