“The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we do not recognize.” -Shiego Shingo, leading expert on the Toyota Production System. The purpose of writing this blog post is to equip the readers with the basic concepts in understanding the importance and benefits of identifying and eliminating wastes in Lean Manufacturing. Impact of Wastes Elimination The organizational Productivity and Profitability is linked with fulfilling customer’s need in cost effective manner. This task is accomplished through identification and elimination of wastes in the process, thus ensuring efficient workflow and sustained quality of products. This efficient workflow, reduces process time and ensure on time delivery to customers. What is a waste in Lean Manufacturing? Waste in Lean Manufacturing is a non-value added activity to the product. In other words, we can say that there’s no value addition to customers and they’ll not willingly pay for this non-value added cost. It’s also w