TIMWOODS
Waste
TIMWOODS
Mnemonic for the 8 wastes: Transportation, Inventory, Motion, Waiting, Overproduction, Overprocessing, Defects, Skills.
Examples
- 01A waste walk checklist is structured along the 8 TIMWOODS categories.
- 02New employees learn the wastes with a TIMWOODS poster on the team board.
- 03A Kaizen workshop tags each observed waste with its TIMWOODS letter.