In order to really understand waste, Lean Self, just as Lean Management, knows 7+1 types of waste.
Coming from the Japanese origin of Lean, the Lean word for waste is “muda”, so I am going to use this expression from time to time.
There are seven classical mudas plus one on top. In future posts, you will see more detailed discussions of them, but right know I want to provide one Lean Self example per muda: