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Section 2: Process Information

1. Briefly list your company’s products and/or services:

2. How would you rate current levels of production and the corresponding waste streams?
Average
Above Average
Below Average

3. Please explain any reasons for this variation in production or production trends:

4. Please indicate all areas which are present at this location:

Storage Research and Development
Design Shipping/Receiving
Lab Work Manufacturing
Office Fabrication
Retail Inventory/Warehousing
Other

5. Please indicate all manufacturing processes currently at this location:

Anodizing Grinding Pickling
Coating Heat Treating Polishing
Blending Kiln Firing Printing
Brazing Machining Rolling
Cleaning Milling Shearing
Decreasing Mining Slitting
Electroplating Molding Stamping
Etching Painting Welding
Extruding Paint Strip Other

6. Which processes are responsible for the majority of your defects?

7. What is the scrap rate (per product)? (for instance, for each10 lb of product produced, 1 Ib of
material is scrapped).

8. Describe how this figure was determined?

9. What percent of internal reject and rework is disposed?

10. How are rejects processed?

Figure 8.6 Existing records review worksheet—page 3.