Using Dynamic Value Stream Mapping And Lean Accounting Box Scores To Support Lean Implementation

Implementation of a Lean Model for Carrying out Value Stream Mapping in a Manufacturing Industry

Value Stream Mapping technique involves flowcharting the steps, activities, material flows, communications, and other process elements that are involved with a process or transformation. In this respect, Value stream mapping helps an organization to identify the non-value-adding elements in a targeted process and brings a product or a group of products that use the same resources through the ma...

Integrating Work Environment Considerations Into Lean and Value Stream Mapping

Using Lean Value Stream Mapping to Align the Work Streams of Two Companies

Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is a tool used in lean operations. Existing cases show how it has been used to launch a Lean organization or trigger large improvements, but there is little information on its use in merging the work streams of two discrete companies. This paper will discuss this approach.

Lean manufacturing: costing the value stream

The term “lean manufacturing”, (Womack et al., 1990), refers to the generalization of the Toyota Production system (TPS), also called Just-in-Time (JIT). One feature of such system is the reduction of costs through elimination of waste (Sugimori et al., 1977). Waste or muda (in Japanese) is anything that does not add value to a product. Elimination of muda is done by means of continuous improve...

Automating Value Stream Mapping in Lean Environment by Using RFID Tool Authors

Value stream mapping is a lean manufacturing technique used to analyze and design the flow of materials and information required to bring a product or service to a consumer. At Toyota, where the technique originated, it is known as "material and information flow mapping". [29] It can be applied to nearly any value chain. Value stream mapping is often associated with manufacturing. It is also us...