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Once value added activities and necessary non-value activities are identified, improvement efforts are directed toward making the activities flow. Flow is the uninterrupted movement of product or service through the system to the customer.

  You may have to take the "back-door" approach and look for the opposite of waste: work. Work is the value-added activity in the operation.  It is everything that waste is not.  So when you can't see the waste, find the work.