Learning to See: Value Stream Mapping to Add Value and Eliminate MUDA
Much more important, these simple maps - often drawn on scrap paper - showed where steps could be eliminated, flows smoothed, and pull systems introduced in order to create a truly lean value stream for each product family.\ In 1998 John teamed with Mike Rother of the University of Michigan to write down Toyota's mapping methodology for the first time in Learning to See. This simple tool makes it possible for you to see through the clutter of a complex plant. You'll soon be able to identify...
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The Lean Enterprise Institute is a non-profit education and research organization founded in 1997 to promote the principles of lean thinking in every aspect of business and across a wide range of manufacturing and service industries. A major LEI objective is to create a full set of tools for lean thinkers to use in transforming traditional businesses. The first tool in the lean tool kit is value stream mapping at the facility level as explained in Learning to See. Future tools presented in workbook form will include: lean scheduling; information management; accounting and performance metrics; supplier development; physical distribution, customer development; policy deployment; and mapping of entire value streams from concept to launch, and from raw materials into customer use.
Foreword by Jim Womack & Dan JonesIntroduction Part I: Getting Started What is Value Stream Mapping? Material and Information Flow Selecting a Product Family The Value Stream Manager Using the Mapping Tool Part II: The Current-State Map Drawing the Current-State Map Your Turn Part III: What Makes a Value Stream Lean? Overproduction Characteristics of a Lean Value Stream Part IV: The Future-State Map Drawing the Future-State Map Your Turn Part V: Achieving the Future State Breaking Implementation Into Steps The Value Stream Plan Value Stream Improvement is Management's Job Appendix A: Mapping Icons (also inside back cover) Appendix B: Current-State Map For TWI Industries Appendix C: Future-State Map For TWI Industries
