What Are The 8 Different Types Of MUDA?
MUDA is a term from lean manufacturing, which basically means waste. The entire philosophy of lean manufacturing is to run a process as lean as possible. In order to accomplish this, you need to know what MUDA is and the different types. The following is a list of the 8 different forms of MUDA: 1. Making products or services that no one really wants. This would be a scenario where you basically run equipment to keep operators busy. You have no orders or production requirements for this, but you think it looks good just to be doing something. 2. Defective products or flawed services (mistakes). Any time you must rework something, you are losing money. Not only are you losing time, which is a labor cost, but more than likely you are having to run this part though all of the processes again, costing you labor and material. 3. Overproduction – making too much of something. This is done by carelessness. You over run your requirements because your processes are normally out of control. YOu c
