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The 8 types of Waste in Manufacturing

25 November, 2025

The 8 types of Waste in Manufacturing

In the following infographic we summarise the different types of losses you can find in a production environment.

We see "Waste" as non-value adding activities, i.e. what the customer doesn't want to pay for.

Make sure you keep all of these different wastes in your radar, because some of them might be interdependent. 

 

By Gilles Kartheuser, Senior Consultant at Improof Solutions