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Muda – Mura – Muri are the three types of waste in Lean manufacturing.
For those working in manufacturing companies, especially in Japanese enterprises, the concept of the 3M is certainly familiar.
The Mura concept comes from the Toyota Production System, the historical ancestor of Lean Manufacturing and Kanban methods. Initially, it was mainly used to describe unevenness in a factory or production environment – uneven customer demand for a product, large batch production causing stock variations inventory and uneven production speed cause a lack of synchronization between processes.
Muri is deeply intertwined with the other two M letters, Muda and Mura. Mura (uneven) results in alternating between being overloaded with work and having nothing to do. Multiple Muda – Overproduction, Overhandling, Movement and Transportation – unnecessarily increases workload. Muri can also cause Muda.