Elimination of muda
Muda is a traditional general Japanese term for activity that is wasteful and doesn't add value or is unproductive or not useful in practice or others. It is also a key concept in the Toyota Production System (TPS) and is one of the three types of waste (Muda, Mura, Muri) that it identifies. Mura signifies wastes due to unevenness and muri signifies wastes due to overburden.
Waste as defined by Toyota’s president, Fujio Cho, is “anything other than the minimum amount of...
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