What is Value Stream Mapping
"Value stream may be a new phrase in your vocabulary A value stream is all the actions oth value added and non-value added) currently required to bring a product through the main flows essential to every product: (1) the production flow from raw material into the arms of the customer, and (2) the design flow from concept to This workbook looks at the production flow from customer demand back through raw material, which is the flow we usually relate to lean manufacturing and precisely the area where many have struggled to implement lean methods.
Taking a value stream perspective means working on the big picture, not just individual processes, and improving the whole, not just optimizing the parts. If you truly look at the whole and go all the way from molecules into the arms of the customer, you will need to follow the value stream for a product across many firms and even more facilities. But mapping this entire stream is too much for getting started!
This workbook covers the "door-to-door" production flow inside a plant, including ship- ment to the plant's customer and delivery of supplied parts and material, where you can design a future-state vision and start implementing it right This is a good level at which to begin your mapping and lean implementation effort.
As your lean experience and confidence grow you expand outward, from the plant level toward the complete molecules Note, however, that in large companies when a product's value stream to through more than one of your own facilities, expanding passes the mapping effort to include the flow through your other facilities should happen very quickly.
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