Creating a PQR analysis is the first step in transforming a value stream. Knowing what you make, how many, and how you make ...

Value Stream Mapping: An Essential Part of the LSS Toolkit As companies and organizations face increasing competition and changing customer demands, they’re using Lean management techniques to become ...

Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is a Lean management tool used to visualize, analyze, and optimize the flow of materials and information required to deliver a product or service to customers.

In today's global market, time is very important. The Value Stream Mapping techniques help everyone in the organization understand lead time. Lead time encompasses the total amount of time needed to ...

Value stream mapping (VSM) found its start in manufacturing, but it’s proved equally helpful in the enterprise as a visual mapping technique for optimizing and improving systems and processes.

Value stream mapping is a visual means to depict and improve the flow of manufacturing and production process, as well as the information that controls the flow of materials through the process. It is ...

The implementation effort and complexities are why many organizations define value streams but don’t take the next steps of implementing value stream mapping. Leaders can use tools such as ...

The company used lean strategies, including value-stream mapping, in its design process for a new vaccine suite and a drug-substance bioprocess suite in its Ireland Pharmaceutical’s Grange Castle ...

MUSCAT: Improving quality and competitiveness through value stream mapping is an important tool to efficiently design the production process and it's flow. Based on the philosophy of the Toyota ...