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 equipment, materials, parts and workers which are absolutely essential to production”. The seven types of wastes identified are
1. Overproduction – Waste due to producing before customer requires or more than needed which often hides production problems.
2. Waiting time – Idle time in manufacturing because materials, information, people or equipment are not ready
3. Transportation – Moving the product adds no value but increases the risk of damage and delays.
4. Inventory –......

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Title: 7 Wastes
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