Value Stream Mapping (VSM)

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Value Stream Mapping Available Dates: No Dates Currently Available Cost: $379 - Non-Members $329 - Members Location: Boxborough, MA

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Value Stream Mapping

Value Stream Mapping enables a company to identify and eliminate waste, thereby streamlining work processes, cutting lead times, reducing costs and increasing quality. QSG 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 Outline
1.0 What Is Mapping All About?
-Types of Maps
-Value and Waste
-Process Mapping
-Background of Mapping
-Mapping The MacProcess (Exercise)

2.0 Process Mapping The Present State
-Detailed Procedure
-Facilitation
-Mapping Teams
-Hints & How-To's
-Team Project (Exercise)

3.0 Process Mapping The Future State
-Objectives
-The Columbo Approach
-Brainstorming
-Measuring The Results
-Detailed Example
-Team Projects (Exercise)

4.0 Value Stream Maps
-What Is A Value Stream
-Product Families
-How To Map The Present State
-Team Projects (Exercise)

5.0 Lean Principles & Techniques
-Elements of Lean Manufacturing
-Value Stream Symbology
-Mapping The Future State (Exercise)

6.0 The Future State Value Stream Map
-Seven Steps To The Future
-Team Projects (Exercise)

7.0 Using Your Maps
-Mapping and Strategy
-Developing A Lean Manufacturing Strategy
-The Elements of Lean
-A Mental Model
-Implementation Planning

Participants Will Learn...
-What is a Value Stream?
-How Value Stream Mapping gives a broad view of an operation from supplier to customer.
-When and where to use Value Stream Mapping
-Selecting the Value Stream
-VSM symbols and meanings
-Twelve steps to Value Stream Mapping
-Elements of Lean and how VSM highlights their use and application.
-Getting to the "Future State"
-How to use Value Stream Mapping to develop your Manufacturing Strategy
-When and where to use Process Mapping.
-Waste and why it is so difficult to identify.
-How to think in "Process" terms rather than "Activity" terms.
-How to define the product for a process map.
-Levels of detail- Macro, Micro & Sub-Micro
-Symbols & Conventions and how to use them.
-How to facilitate process mapping -- detailed instructions, hints and how-to's.
-How to streamline a process and build a "future state" map