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

To request a quote, contact:
Elena O'Connor, On-site Programs
Phone: (734) 487-4926