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Value Stream Mapping

Discover this powerful tool related to a lean operation using techniques that will improve the efficiency, quality and cost of a value stream. Learn to define and identify value streams for analysis, how to map the current state, and how to create a future state to improve the processes in your organization.

Seminar Content
Value Streams and Lean Principles

  • Defining Your Customers
  • What Customers Value
  • Value Streams
  • Business Strategy
  • Customer Value Workshop
  • Value Chains
  • Lean Concepts

Defining Your Value Stream

  • Choosing Your Value Stream
  • Identifying Your Important Customer-oriented Processes
  • Systems of Processes
  • Inputs and Outputs

Value Stream Mapping

  • Mapping the Current State
    - Production Example
    - Office Example
  • Mapping Workshop

Measuring Current Performance

  • Selecting the Right Performance Metrics
  • Gathering Information
  • Communicating Current Performance

Targeting Improvements

  • Identifying Strategic Improvement Points
  • Scope, Resources and Management Support
  • Mapping the Future State

Improvement Tools and Plans

  • Using Kaizen Events to Drive Improvement
  • Action Plans
  • Visual Controls and Their Role in Value Stream Management
  • Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis

Implementing the Improvements

  • Managing Change
  • Institutionalizing the Improvements
  • Using Internal Management System Audits to Reinforce and Drive
  • alue Stream Improvements

Measuring Ongoing Performance and Managing the Value Stream

Seminar Fee: $795
All meals, excluding dinner, are included.

Each participant will receive a comprehensive manual and a Certificate of Completion at the close of the seminar.


 
   


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