TPS specifically identified seven types of waste or muda: 1  Waste of overproduction or overburden. 2  Waste of time on hand or waiting period. 3  Waste of transportation and shipping. 4  Waste of processing. 5  Waste of keeping stock in hand. 6  Waste of movement. 7  Waste of making defective products.
A phase, or state of matter, is a domain within a many-body system within which relevant physical properties are uniform. Relevant properties may include chemical composition, stoichiometry, and density, which do not reflect how the components are arranged in space.
Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: 1  Chemistry(noun) that branch of science which treats of the composition of substances, and of the changes which they undergo in consequence of alterations in the constitution of the molecules, which depend upon variations of the number, kind, or mode of arrangement, of the constituent atoms.