Muda

Mura – Unevenness; Production Leveling

Uneven demand

What is Mura?   Most Lean practitioners that I have met have little idea as to what is Mura only really being aware of Muda or the seven wastes. Within the Toyota Production system however, which spawned what we now…

Muri Overburden

7 Wastes

What is Muri?   Muri is to Overburden your employees or machines, it can also be seen as “unreasonableness”. It is placing operators and machines under unnecessary stress by making demands on them that are unreasonable and often very unnecessary.…