Lean Thinking
Value Stream Mapping
How many businesses are not under pressure to improve performance, reduce costs, or be more competitive?
Value Stream Mapping is entirely about identifying and removing waste - in other words, the things which the customer and you should not be paying for.
The real power of this Lean technique is not just to enable the understanding of your current situation, but to provide the ability to develop the vision of how it should be – the future state. With
Value Stream Mapping, the power of the technique is in driving solutions for early improvement.
Value stream mapping
- helps to visualise the complete process and see the flow
- helps to see the sources of waste
- provides a common language for talking about manufacturing processes
- makes decisions about flow apparent, helping people to understand and discuss them
- clearly illustrates the link between material flow and information flow
- develops the understanding and vision for the creation of the ‘future state’ map
