Ed Stanek, Asset Analytix and Scott Stanton, Corden Pharma,

70% of craft hours are spent dealing with micro-obstacles that consume valuable resources, increase downtime duration (MTTR), & drive elevated costs.Non-value-added activities called MUDA (normally undocumented) are found in every process including daily maintenance work execution. The acronym DOWNTIME (Defects, Overproduction, Waiting, Non/Under-utilized talent, Transportation, Inventory, Motion, & Excess processing) can help you capture, classify, and analyze loss revealing improvement countermeasures that optimize your most valuable resource, your team’s time.Capturing these inconveniences WITHIN work & time BETWEEN work happens where work takes place (GEMBA). By focusing on challenges our crew deals with instead of the work they perform (Not a time-study) enables trust and solicits participation, defining a “new-normal” for cultural transformation. Baselined planning & scheduling process effectiveness visualizes a loss: process relationships for rapid continuous improvement.