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THE 7 WASTES OF LEAN — TRAINING DECK + ACTION PLAN
THE 7 WASTES OF LEAN — TRAINING DECK + ACTION PLAN
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Once you can see waste, you can't unsee it. This complete Lean-fundamentals toolkit teaches your team to spot the seven hidden wastes in any process — and gives them a working plan to remove them. No Lean background is needed: it's built from scratch, in plain language, and you can run your first improvement the same day.
Perfect for team leaders, continuous improvement and operations people, trainers, and anyone rolling out Lean on the shop floor, in the warehouse or in the office.
WHAT YOU GET
- Training slides (PPTX): a 16-slide deck that builds it up from scratch, value vs. waste, the three activity buckets, all seven wastes (TIMWOOD) one by one, and the ICE method.
- Print-ready deck (PDF): the same course as a clean PDF to learn, print and share with the team.
- Waste action plan (XLSX): a ready-to-use TIMWOOD tracker — log each observation, tick the wastes that apply, quantify the impact, and assign an owner and due date. Includes a fully worked example and a quick guide.
THE SEVEN WASTES — REMEMBER TIMWOOD
T - Transportation: moving materials more than they need to be.
I - Inventory: holding more stock than the next step can use.
M - Motion: people stretching, walking and reaching too much.
W - Waiting: idle people or machines in the middle of a process.
O - Overproduction: making too much, too early.
O - Overprocessing: doing more than the job actually needs.
D - Defects: scrap, rejects and rework.
A SIMPLE METHOD THAT STICKS: ICE
- Identify: walk the real process and note every waste you see.
- Categorize: sort the notes into the seven TIMWOOD types and prioritize.
- Eliminate: tackle the biggest waste with a clear countermeasure — then repeat.
Pro tip inside: overproduction is the No. 1 waste — making too much, too early triggers the other six. Fix it first and the rest start to shrink on their own.
WHY TEAMS LOVE IT
- See waste clearly: recognize the seven wastes hiding in everyday work.
- Tell value from waste: separate what the customer pays for from what they don't.
- No Lean background needed: built from scratch; anyone can follow.
- Fully editable: adapt the deck and the TIMWOOD action plan to any process.
- Print-ready: a clean PDF to teach and share.
- Instant download: get all three files the moment you buy.
WHAT'S IN THE DOWNLOAD
- 1 x Training deck — .pptx (16 slides, fully editable)
- 1 x Print-ready deck — .pdf
- 1 x Waste action plan — .xlsx (TIMWOOD tracker, worked example & quick guide)
Instant digital download. For personal and in-company training use.
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