Main Types of Losses |
Industrial Production Process |
Educational Process |
Stock |
Surplus of stock, incomplete products, and ready-made products |
Outdated databases and information; incomplete work |
Defects |
Flaws; deviations from the predetermined parameters exceed acceptable limits |
Professors’ formal attitude towards the educational process; provision of outdated information; application of outdated teaching techniques; insufficient preparation for delivery of classes |
Overproduction |
Production of too many products; disagreement between the manufacturing plan and the actual demand for those products |
Unjustified duplication of information; students are overloaded with information that does not correspond to their needs |
Too many difficulties |
Unnecessary stages of processes; unclear job descriptions; duplication of functions |
Idle waiting and standing by |
Standby of equipment; idle waiting for materials; unbalanced work; inefficient usage of worktime |
Unreasonable distraction from classes |
Unnecessary movements |
Non-ergonomic organization of manufacturing / educational premises and facilities |