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Muri is one of three types of waste (muda, mura, muri) identified in the Toyota Production System. Waste reduction is an effective way to increase profitability. Muri can be avoided through standardized work. To achieve this a standard condition or output must be defined to assure effective judgment of quality. Then every process and function ...
From an end-customer's point of view, value-added work is any activity that produces goods or provides a service for which a customer is willing to pay; muda is any constraint or impediment that causes waste to occur. [3] There are two types of muda: [4] Muda type I: non value-adding, but necessary for end-customers. These are usually harder to ...
Mura is a Japanese word meaning "unevenness; irregularity; lack of uniformity; nonuniformity; inequality", [1] and is a key concept in the Toyota Production System (TPS) as one of the three types of waste (muda, mura, muri). [2]
Production leveling, also known as production smoothing or – by its Japanese original term – heijunka (平準化), [1] is a technique for reducing the mura (unevenness) which in turn reduces muda (waste). It was vital to the development of production efficiency in the Toyota Production System and lean manufacturing. The goal is to produce ...
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The most significant effects on process value delivery are achieved by designing a process capable of delivering the required results smoothly; by designing out "mura" (inconsistency). It is also crucial to ensure that the process is as flexible as necessary without stress or "muri" (overburden) since this generates "muda" (waste).