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MUDA is one what we call the “3Ms” . The other two are MURI, overburden, and
MURA, unevenness. Eliminating all three of these will result in efficient, rationalized
production.
MURI : Overburden
MURA : Unevenness
MURA, the third of the 3M’s, can be viewed as combination of the first two M’s: at
times there is excess capacity and at time overburden. Such unevenness results
it is always necessary to have on hand enough equipment, materials and people for
highest level production–no matter what the level may be at any given time.
The first step toward eliminating MUDA is to learn to recognize it; which steps of the
production process are truly necessary, which step add value to the product, and
If you look closely at the process of doing production work, you can see that there are
The first is simply waste or obvious MUDA. This obvious MUDA is any step that is
logically unnecessary to carrying out the job, such things as waiting around,
rearranging materials, or handling parts that are not needed right away. Such
activities add no value to the final product, or to the material that go into it.
Next is the MUDA of incidental operations, work that must be done under present job
conditions but that add no value. Leaving the workspace to get parts or tools, or
The last type of activity consists of the truly necessary operations which add to value
changing its quality or assembling it. The higher the proportion of value-adding
operations in the total work performed, the higher the level of production efficiency.
In fact, when we inspect actual job-sites we find hat MUDA is extremely prevalent
and value-adding operations are surprisingly small. MUDA is everywhere, and the
effort to identify and eliminate it has led to the classification of MUDA into seven
categories:
cycle, etc.
to a minimum.
5. MUDA of Inventory: Any more than the minimum to get the job done.
6. MUDA of Motion: Any motion that does not contribute directly to value
added.
The Toyota Production System attempts to eliminate all forms of MUDA, but pays