In assignment $3$ you will be measuring your current state that you defined in assignment $2.$ The purpose or this exercise

$(15$ POINTS$)$

is to identify the 'significant few' opportunities in your process that if improved will have the most measurable impact on your process.

Measure the time for each your process steps. You will use the process steps from your Assignment $2.$ The P in your SIPOC is where you can find your process steps. In addition, you will also measure the total time of your process and that will become one of your KPI's in future assignments.

You will conduct a time study for the overall time for your process. You will conduct a time study $($Link$)$ of your process to measure the overall time from beginning to end, as well as$,$ the time for each process step $($the $5-7$ steps$)$ on your process map from assignment $2.$

You will Perform a waste audit to identify the wastes in this process using the provided waste audit template $($link$).$ After completing the textbook and supplemental article readings, you should have sufficient knowledge to critically identify wastes in your defined process. Challenge your current thinking about the process when analyzing potential issues $($see waste you never quite saw before, must have $3$ per category$).$ Look at your process, and use the waste categories to identify $3$ wastes in your process for each category. $($The optional lecture has specific examples$)$

In your Lessons learned section: Set an improvement goal for your chosen KPI's. Now that you have measured your process and identify the waste, you have a better sense of the potential for improvement. You can change any of your KPI's, Look at your waste audit. Those items are easily measured and all of them would make great candidates for a KPI. Think about what wastes you hope to eliminate in your process and how measurably that can improve your overall KPI's.

For example, for a KPI is the overall process time of your morning routine, you will measure the overall time and the time for each step in your process. Using your waste audit template you will quantify the waste in your process that no doubt translates into time delays in your process. With this new knowledge, you can make an educated estimate as to how much time you think you can remove from your morning routine by doing kaizen to eliminate some waste.

Let's say your overall morning routine process time is $90$ minutes. In your time study, you noticed that making breakfast is $40$ minutes. In your waste audit, you realize that more than half of your breakfast$-$making activity is wasted motion. You may then set an improvement target to reduce your breakfast$-$making process from $40$ minutes to $20$ minutes by eliminating a lot of waste.