Overview#
Muri is a Japanese word meaning "unreasonableness; impossible; beyond one's power; too difficult; by force; perforce; forcibly; compulsorily; excessiveness; immoderation" and is a key concept in
lean process thinking, like the
Toyota Production System (
TPS) as one of the three types of deviation from optimal allocation of
resources the others being
Muda and
mura.
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