This week students need to take the process improvement project defined in Week 2 and analyze that process for waste or non-value added activities.

The process is getting ready in the morning. or your morning routine

1. Waste Audit Review the online lecture and pg. 12-15 in The Lean Pocket Handbook for Kaizen Events. After completing this with 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, target 3 per category).

2. Analyze a Waste - Select any of the process analysis tools covered in your textbook, supplemental articles, or lecture in the Week 4 lesson to further evaluate the process (any tool except is/ isnot and the 5 why's) for a critical waste or issues discovered in the audit.

3. Review Audit Review the results of this assignment with other process owners or stakeholders as identified in Assignment 1. Get their feedback and input into your Waste Audit and Analysis (update step 1 and 2 above from this input). Explain how this review was completed.

4. Identify Lessons Learned - Include challenges and experiences faced in doing this assignment. Generalize what you learned for use in later process improvement projects.