How to Eliminate Waste in ISO Procedures
6 videos • 27 views • by by Lean ISO Management Systems This playlist shows How to eliminate Waste in ISO Procedures and make your ISO system Lean and efficient. You can apply this approach to any ISO Management System: quality, ISO 9001, environmental, ISO 14001, medical device manufacturing, ISO 13485, and any other. According to studies by the Lean Enterprise Research Centre, sixty percent of production activities in a typical manufacturing operation are waste. In the next few videos, we will talk about each waste category and ways to kill them to make your documents Lean and efficient. First, let’s agree on the definition of waste in procedures. Waste is anything and everything that does not contribute to the purpose of the procedure. How many categories of waste in procedures do you think are out there? Let’s say that a procedure, on average, mentions the company name three times. Let’s say that a document, on average, mentions five times the term “standard operating procedure” instead of “procedure.” Let’s say that our procedure has the number “QC-SOP-020.1”. Are all these wastes? Those procedures could have served their purpose perfectly well by saying “the company” instead of “Blue Widget, LLC,” “procedure” instead of “standard operating procedure.” The purpose would not be affected. In my years of examining management systems, I found some twenty-seven categories of waste in procedures. Of course, not all ISO procedures contain all this ballast. This list of wastes is a summary of what I have seen in different systems. If you wonder why all these categories are waste, I will explain them in the following videos. At the end of this first video, you may enter a contest to win my book “ISO Management Systems: The Lean Revolution.” Start fighting waste in procedures and make your ISO management system Lean and efficient. Together we will learn How to Eliminate Waste in Procedures.