Sort the waste in a beverage value stream
Classify common food and beverage manufacturing losses into lean waste categories.
Place each observation in the lean waste category it most strongly represents. Waiting Motion Transportation Inventory Defects Overprocessing Overproduction Finished pallets sit four hours until QA releases in one afternoon batch Operator walks 60 feet to retrieve label rolls during every changeover Three days of promotional cartons staged beside the line before the run Cases reopened because inkjet codes smear after case sealing Cases move to a remote stretch wrapper, then back past the same dock door Clerk recounts cases already scanned by the palletizer system Line runs the full forecast even after the customer cuts the order
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