Basic Concept
The key concept of Lean manufacturing is to create value for your customers. Today, more and more companies are finding that Value Stream Management is fundamental to value creation. Value Stream Management is a systematic approach to visually communicating product flow and the process waste associated with its transformation. From our Value Stream Map we gain insight into improvement opportunities, the design of our future state and the measurements necessary to monitor overall operational performance. Value Stream Management deals with the practical realities of enterprise-wide waste identification and elimination. It allows employees at all levels to see the value chain, employ the tools of waste elimination to focused improvement projects and realize the gains that translate to value for the customers. The Value Stream Management technique will allow you to
- focus on the critical elements specific to each value stream
- implement lead time and cost reduction techniques using a structured approach
- use value stream mapping to identify and share critical issues and improvement opportunities
use value stream mapping to identify and share critical issues and improvement opportunities
Workshop Objectives
Learn a systematic structured approach and the supporting techniques for managing product flows in order to:
- see and visualize constraints and inefficiencies of current flows (current state)
- apply a structured approach to the implementation of Lean
- create an improvement plan and develop an optimized flow (future state)
- identify priority actions
Who should attend?
Vice Presidents of Manufacturing, Plant Managers, Operations Managers, Department Managers and representatives from Production Control, and Purchasing.
Workshop Agenda
Day 1:
Begin with a definition of Value Stream Management: a systematic management approach having an immediate impact on the critical elements of a companys value streams.
Learn the difference between Value Stream Management and Value Stream Mapping:
- how to identify existing product families
- determine which production strategy & tactical approach to use for which product family
Understand the evolution from batch processing to continuous one-piece flow and the critical management issues that accompany a flow environment. Discover needed performance measurements, the likely production constraints and the steps and techniques for mapping the critical elements.
Participate in the simulation and current state mapping of Color Stream:
Color Stream simulates the global multi-step production and distribution flow of a product family. Participants will perform all the tasks required in an effective supply chain. As a team, they will experiment with the different production and distribution management approaches and identify the impact on value stream performance. They will implement and visualize, via the current state map, the critical aspects of traditional management made through specialized departments.
Then participants will work through the process of identifying and implementing the future state value stream how to start; the varied approaches and techniques, and the steps essential to the process
Day 2:
As the Color Stream simulation continues, participants determine performance measures, and identify issues, constraints, and improvement opportunities as they work to implement:
Continuous flow using:
- basic continuous flow techniques
- continuous flow implementation approaches and limitations
Pull systems using:
- basic pull systems techniques
- pull systems implementation approaches and limits
Load leveling (volume and mix) and flow pace making
- basic load leveling and pace making techniques
- pace making implementation approaches and limits
- load leveling and future state visualization
Specific VSM techniques for different production environments:
- high volume products and stable demand
- high mix production and high-variation demand
- low volume production with variable production processes (job shop)
- made to order or customized products
Creating a strategy and implementation plan
- success factors
- approaches and steps
- ship from inventory or make to order
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