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Muda Muri Mura: Lean Manufacturing or Lean Production, Often Simply "Lean", Is A Systematic Method For Waste

Lean manufacturing is a systematic method to minimize waste in manufacturing without reducing productivity. It considers waste from increased worker strain and uneven workloads. Value is defined as any process or action a customer would pay for. Lean aims to make value-adding processes obvious by reducing all non-value-adding activities. Derived from the Toyota Production System, lean focuses on eliminating seven types of waste to improve customer value, though opinions differ on best achieving this. Toyota's success in growing from small to world's largest automaker has drawn focus to how it applied this philosophy.

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Muda Muri Mura: Lean Manufacturing or Lean Production, Often Simply "Lean", Is A Systematic Method For Waste

Lean manufacturing is a systematic method to minimize waste in manufacturing without reducing productivity. It considers waste from increased worker strain and uneven workloads. Value is defined as any process or action a customer would pay for. Lean aims to make value-adding processes obvious by reducing all non-value-adding activities. Derived from the Toyota Production System, lean focuses on eliminating seven types of waste to improve customer value, though opinions differ on best achieving this. Toyota's success in growing from small to world's largest automaker has drawn focus to how it applied this philosophy.

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Lean manufacturing or lean production, often simply "lean", is a systematic method for waste

minimization ("Muda") within a manufacturing system without sacrificing productivity. Lean also takes
into account waste created through overburden ("Muri") and waste created through unevenness in
work loads ("Mura"). Working from the perspective of the client who consumes a product or service,
"value" is any action or process that a customer would be willing to pay for.
Lean manufacturing makes obvious what adds value, by reducing everything else (which is not
adding value). This management philosophy is derived mostly from the Toyota Production
System (TPS) and identified as "lean" only in the 1990s.[1][2] TPS is renowned for its focus on
reduction of the original Toyota seven wastes to improve overall customer value, but there are
varying perspectives on how this is best achieved. The steady growth of Toyota, from a small
company to the world's largest automaker,[3] has focused attention on how it has achieved this
success.

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