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Value-Added Non-Value-Added

• Handling wood
• Blade cuts wood
• Clean up
• Quality checks
• Banding bundles
• Moving bundles of
wood
• Changing blades
• Breaks/Lunch
• Meetings
• Breakdown
• Adjusting saw
• Paperwork
• Waiting for wood
• Waiting for helper to
return wood for
additional cut

Increase Reduce
Value-Added Non-Value-Added

Figure 4-7. Comparison of value-added and non-value-added activities

lost time opportunity by shifting from the non-value-added to the
value-added side.
From the non-value-added list we first focused on in-cycle losses—
those occurring during the operation of the saw. The operators real-
ized that simply changing the wood-handling method would increase
the value-adding time nearly 25 percent. In addition, shifting activities
that were currently performed “internally” (while the saw was stopped)