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Use VSM’s to Identify High Impact Improvement Opportunities in Your Business
LE201 is a Lean implementation event that involves creating a Value Stream Map (VSM) which is a tool that delineates and analyzes the flow of materials and information required to bring a product or service to a customer.
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A VSM provides a way to visually see the entire enterprise in order to quickly identify wastes and performance bottlenecks |
The methodology systematically takes your company from its current state of operations to a dramatically improved future state.
Learn to—
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Draw a current state VSM that shows delay and wastes in information and shop floor flows |
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Draw a future state map that shows the desired flows |
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Create a continual improvement plan to prioritize actions that lead towards the newly established future state map |
Key Features
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A VSM kit that contains all materials to successfully facilitate an event, including train the trainer materials, participant guides, and icon-based process mapping tools |
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An educational component that facilitates knowledge transfer of the VSM methodology to participants |
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Decrease area footprint |
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Access to Internet and client-site business technologies that provide a centralized team workspace for every VSM event |
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Team services include event management tracking, document collaboration, library of reference materials with document templates and real-time performance monitoring |
Key Benefits
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Understand the business case for using a strategy-focused approach to operational improvement |
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Rapidly identify and prioritize high impact improvement opportunities |
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Define baseline performance measures and monitor for sustainment |
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Promotes standardized best practices throughout your organization |
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Promotes a holistic approach to performance improvement that is more effective than fragmented approaches |
Deliverables
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Event “roll up” report for management that includes electronic VSM maps and a continual improvement plan |
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Current state map |
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Future state map (ideal process) |
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Prioritized list of high impact improvement opportunities |
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Implementation plan for Kaizen Rapid Improvement Event (LE202) |
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