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Supply Chain Glossary - S

Supply Chain Glossary - S

scheduled downtime

Planned shutdown of equipment or plant to perform maintenance or to adjust to softening demand.

Shigeo Shingo, a pioneer in the Japanese Just-in-Time philosophy, identified seven barriers to improving manufacturing. They are the waste of overproduction, waste of waiting, waste of transportation, waste of stocks, waste of motion, waste of making defects, and waste of the processing itself.


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