1.How can overproduction be minimized?

2. Describe three reasons why waiting is damaging to organizations?

3. How is transporting waste? Provide an example to support your answer.

4. How can organizations avoid, or at least minimize, unnecessary paperwork and processing?

5. If an inventory is an asset, why is it considered a waste?

6. Explain how you can identify excess motion during an operational audit.

7. Describe the impact of defects on organizational success from an internal and external (e.g., competitive) perspective.

8. Provide three recommendations to minimize the presence of underutilized employees.

9. How can the Eight Areas of Waste be used to build an operational audit work program?

10. Show how a process can have more than one of the Eight Areas of Waste present simultaneously.