VSMs are used to map work processes, material flow, and information flow. They have a multitude of uses and are generally easy to create and understand. For this project we used Microsoft Visio to create current state and future state VSMs. Our first objective was to create a current state VSM for the CIS factory. To do this we initially created multiple current state VSMs. These current state VSMs included a high level VSM and various factory’s individual VSMs for the specific members and assembly lines. For the future state VSM, we created multiple scenarios, which were used to make a final decision. For our maps we used the “value stream map” template within the Visio 2007 program. We then listed all the processes included for the corresponding production line. As shown and described in the figure below, we used the different symbols to create our VSMs.