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The following is a list of eight waste activities found at a furniture manufacturing plant. Classify each one as a type of waste as represented by the acronym DOWNTIME (Defects, Overproduction, Waiting, Not utilizing people to their full potential, Transportation, Inventory, Movement, and Excess processing). a. The plant manager makes all decisions in the plant; employees follow directions. ▼ b. Furniture is shipped fully assembled to customers, incurring extra shipping costs because of the additional bulk. c. Employees must search for tools at the beginning of each work shift since there is no standard storage spot for each tool. d. Because the drill press is broken, the furniture assembly workers cannot do any work until it is fixed.

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