The '8 Waste' methodology of lean management principles focuses on lab processes in a new Mettler Toledo guide and offers a useful way to identify non-value adding or unnecessary steps in routine workflows. Commonly performed tasks benefit from streamlining in terms of productivity and cost savings. Labs often perform the same operations repeatedly, causing process steps to become familiar. This makes it difficult for lab operators and management to assess these processes with a critical eye - particularly in the absence of a systematic methodology to help them identify wasteful or unnecessary actions.
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