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Value Stream Mapping enables a company to identify and eliminate waste, thereby streamlining work processes, cutting lead times, reducing costs and increasing quality. IMEC can assist you through concept training (workshop), skill implementation and paradigm change (kaizen events).
Through Value Stream Mapping, a team of employees can map the current state from customer back to raw material including all steps, both value-added and non-value-added, and develop a future state vision to act as a blueprint for Lean activities. The Future State often represents a significant change compared to the way the company currently operates. The VSM team will develop an implementation strategy to make the Future State a reality. The most urgent needs will be addressed first, and can typically be accomplished in a very short time frame with the appropriate resources applied.
Workshop Objectives
The Workshop illustrates the basic skills involved in Value Stream Mapping. This group training exercise is designed to precede a VSM implementation.
• Describe the characteristics, benefits and importance of Value Stream Mapping
• Appreciate the importance of a Value Stream Manager
• Create a Current State Map
• Group manufactured products into product families
• Establish Takt Time for a product family
• Develop the skills necessary to create a Future State Map
• Understand how to create an effective implementation plan
• Select an appropriate product family within your own facility with which to begin
Implementation Event
Following the workshop, IMEC will facilitate a cross-functional group of your employees through the Value Stream Mapping process, implementing the techniques learned on an selected company value stream.
Implementation Event with Kaizen
The Value Stream Mapping Event will identify opportunities to remove waste. The Value Stream Mapping Team will develop the implementation plan, then immediately select and implement one or more Kaizen Events, including:
• 5S / Workplace Organization
• Quick Changeover
• Cellular / Flow Manufacturing
• Pull / Kanban Systems
• Total Productive Maintenance
This approach maintains the momentum and excitement of the team, as well as ensures buy-in to the future state plan. Typically, the team members that developed the Value Stream Maps are utilized for the implementation of the Kaizen Event(s).
Benefits of Value Stream Mapping
• “See the flow” of your value stream and wastes in the flow
• View all products from a system perspective
• Understanding both material and information flows of your value stream
• Draw a blueprint for Lean transformation—the Future State Map
• Prioritize activities needed to achieve the Future State
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