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E3 Value Stream Mapping How-to Guide

Unfamiliar with value stream mapping? If so, view these presentations to learn about how it works with these Lean and Environment Training Modules

Value stream map
  • Getting Started with Lean and Environment
  • Identifying Environmental Wastes
  • Value Stream Mapping
  • Kaizen Events
  • 6S (5S+Safety)

Value stream mapping (VSM) serves as a critical tool during the assessment process and can reveal substantial opportunities to reduce costs, enhance production flow, save time, reduce inventory, and improve environmental performance.

The assessment team leads a collaborative effort to create a current state VSM of the identified product or process line. The map should examine areas that offer the greatest potential for lean and green improvement such as: inventory, inputs, outputs, wastes, non-value-added steps, worker safety issues, energy consumptions, bottlenecks and rework.

Once the current state VSM is completed, the assessment team then creates a future state map of the identified product or process line that includes lean and green improvement recommendations made by the group. The team assumes a future state map is not limited by capital restraints; it should represent a fully optimized line in its ideal state.

Tools

  • Primer on Value Stream Mapping Techniques (pdf) (211.18 KB)
  • Metal Finishing Operations (pdf) (752.79 KB)
  • Metal Fabrication Operations (pdf) (617.21 KB)
  • Parts Washing Operations (pdf) (604.24 KB)
  • Surface Coating Operations (pdf) (644.68 KB)

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