What does NVA stand for?

The framework stands as a benchmark to continuously review core organizational functions in order to eliminate process variations and non-value added activities.

In order to meet customer demands, manufacturers not only have to concentrate on taking out non-value added processes internally, they also need to ensure they know exactly what their customer wants and when they want it.

Premium AEROTEC, an EADS Group subsidiary, is said to have chosen FiberSIM composite software due its ability to reduce errors and subsequent design revisions; automate non-value added tasks, such as redundant data entry; enhance downstream consumption of data; and improve overall engineering productivity.

Topflight began implementing Lean in the spring of 2003 by trying to eliminate non-value added activities.

Lean manufacturing focuses on improving the speed of a process and the elimination of waste primarily by eliminating non-value added steps.

Non-value added work is that which adds nothing to a process.

This international system, based on a free flow of trade, money, information and work, is both clogging the progress of competitive industry by the necessity for borrowing the capital to start and maintain industries and the resultant inflation of monetary value by the non-value added interest payment involved, it has loaded the ordinary people with unrepayable mountains of debt.

Martin McColl, Project Champion said "the activity, ranging from initial policy diagnostic to the establishment of a continuous improvement loop, has enabled the identification and reduction of waste and non-value added components of work without detriment to customer delivery".