Håkan Östholm
Sales and Senior Business Consultant
EPICAL'S SERVICES
Value stream mapping
Value Stream Mapping
Gain Insight into Your Processes with Value Stream Mapping
Gain Insight into Your Processes with Value Stream Mapping
The value stream mapping results in your production and administrative flow being visualized in a single image to enable joint decisions on future improvements.
The optimal flow consists only of value-creating activities, as everything else is 'Muda,' which means waste. What constitutes a value-creating activity is assessed from the customer's perspective, where the following criteria must be met:
- The activity must enhance the product/service.
- The customer must be willing to pay for the activity.
- The activity must be performed correctly without errors the first time.
It is common that the majority of the time for each activity in a flow consists of non-value-creating activities (waste) that generate unnecessary costs and long lead times. The purpose of the value stream analysis is to show where there are improvement potentials in the flow by removing non-value-adding elements in the form of waste (Muda):
7+1 Wastes "Muda":
1. Overproduction
2. Waiting
3. Inventory
4. Unnecessary Movements (personnel or raw materials)
5. Malfunction (Repairs, Rework, Scrap)
6. Overprocessing (Non-value-adding activities for the customer)
7. Unnecessary Transportation (raw materials, tools, materials, or products)
+1. Underutilized Employee Creativity
Structure of Value Stream Mapping
You choose which product/process you want to map and analyze. Epical maps the flow from order to delivery, and you collect data on the extent of losses/waste/lead times in the current flow. Epical compiles the value stream mapping and presents it, and a joint analysis is conducted with you on potential future improvements. At the Visuellafabriken.se, there are products that facilitate value stream mapping
- Process Steps and Design of Flow from Order to Delivery
- Inventory Management
- Material Flow
- Data for Each Process and Inventory
- Customers, Suppliers
- Business systems/Support systems
- Information flow
- Lead times
- Analysis
- Development of a long-term strategic action plan
Who Participates in Value Stream Mapping
Managers, leaders, production engineers, and invited participants who have insight into how the process is conducted.
Scope and Content of Value Stream Mapping
1-2 Mapping Days and 1 Review Session, Data Collection, 1 Day Analysis and Action Plan Development
How is Value Stream Mapping Delivered
Documented value stream with accompanying action plan
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Håkan Östholm
Sales and Senior Business Consultant