ABSTRACT
Any waste is not productive. In industry there are different kinds of wastes that are contrary to productivity. As the waste increases, the productivity decreases. All kinds of wastes ultimately end up as wasted money; but any waste, regardless of the kind, lowers overall productivity. What is not always so obvious is the variety of different ways that time and money can be wasted. Immediately, material waste comes to mind, but other kinds of wastes are more subtle. One example is wasted quantity of personnel, which means an excess in the number of people applied to a specific job. Another example is unnecessary measurements that waste time in laborhours without really contributing to production.
