Muri (Japanese term)

For other uses, see Muri (disambiguation).

Muri (無理, “unreasonable”)[1] is a Japanese term for overburden, unreasonableness or absurdity, which has become popularized in the West[citation needed] by its use as a key concept in the Toyota Production System.

Implementation

In fact[citation needed] the big contribution of Henry Ford and his manufacturing techniques was the reduction of Muri and not so much the production line itself. In order for the production line to function each station on the line had to achieve standard work because the next station was only equipped to work on standard condition components.

The Ford production line approximates to an implementation of Takt time which gives enough time to perform the standard work.

References

  1. ^ Muri, 無理 translation to English on Sanseido "EXCEED Japanese-English dictionary".