<P> Poor arrangement of the workplace--a major focus of the modern kaizen--and doing a job inefficiently out of habit--are major forms of waste even in modern workplaces . </P> <P> Ford also pointed out how easy it was to overlook material waste . A former employee, Harry Bennett, wrote: </P> <Dl> <Dd> One day when Mr. Ford and I were together he spotted some rust in the slag that ballasted the right of way of the D.T. & I (railroad). This slag had been dumped there from our own furnaces .' You know,' Mr. Ford said to me,' there's iron in that slag . You make the crane crews who put it out there sort it over, and take it back to the plant .' </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> One day when Mr. Ford and I were together he spotted some rust in the slag that ballasted the right of way of the D.T. & I (railroad). This slag had been dumped there from our own furnaces .' You know,' Mr. Ford said to me,' there's iron in that slag . You make the crane crews who put it out there sort it over, and take it back to the plant .' </Dd>

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