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Learning to See
This groundbreaking workbook, which has introduced the
value-stream mapping tool to thousands of people around the world,
breaks down the important concepts of value-stream mapping into an
easily grasped format. The workbook, a Shingo Research and
Publication Award recipient in 1999, is filled with actual maps, as
well as engaging diagrams and illustrations.
The value-stream map is a paper-and-pencil representation of
every process in the material and information flow, along with key
data. It differs significantly from tools such as process mapping
or layout diagrams because it includes information flow as well as
material flow. Value-stream mapping is an overarching tool that
gives managers and executives a picture of the entire production
process, both value and non value-creating activities. Rather than
taking a haphazard approach to lean implementation, value-stream
mapping establishes a direction for the company.
To encourage you to become actively involved in the learning
process, Learning to See contains a case study based on a
fictional company, Acme Stamping. You begin by mapping the current
state of the value stream, looking for all the sources of waste.
After identifying the waste, you draw a map of a leaner future
state and a value-stream plan to guide implementation and review
progress regularly.
Creating Continuous Flow
This workbook is the next logical step after Learning to
See, which defined the pacemaker process and the overall flow
of products and information in the plant. The next step is to shift
your focus from the plant to the process level by zeroing in on the
pacemaker process, which sets the production rhythm for the plant
or value stream, and apply the principles of continuous flow.
This workbook explains in simple, step-by-step terms how to
introduce and sustain lean flows of material and information in
pacemaker cells and lines, a prerequisite for achieving a lean
value stream. You'll learn: where to focus your continuous flow
efforts, how to create much more efficient work cells and lines,
how to operate a pacemaker process so that a lean value stream is
possible, how to sustain the gains, and how keep improving.
Making Materials Flow
Making Materials Flow describes in plain language
another step in implementing a complete lean business system: how
to supply purchased parts to the value stream in order to support
continuous flow. The problem many companies face is how to sustain
steady output in a continuous flow cell. The answer is a lean
material-handling system for purchased parts that supports the
entire facility, including continuous flow cells, small-batch
processing, and traditional assembly lines.
This workbook explains in plain language how to create such a
system by applying the relevant concepts and methods in a
step-by-step progression. The workbook reveals the exercises,
formulas, standards, and forms that a consultant would use to
implement the system in your environment. And, like LEI's other
workbooks, Making Materials Flow answers the key question
managers often have about lean manufacturing tools and concepts,
"What do I do on Monday morning to implement this?"
Creating Level Pull
Creating Level Pull shows you how to advance a lean
manufacturing transformation from a focus on isolated improvements
to improving the entire plantwide production system by implementing
a lean production control system.
The lean efforts at most companies focus on "point kaizen"
(e.g., reducing set up times, implementing 5S, etc.) that improves
a small portion of the value stream running from raw materials to
finished products. Or they focus on "flow kaizen" that improves the
entire value stream for one product family. Creating Level
Pull shows how companies can make the leap to "system kaizen"
by introducing a lean production control system that ties together
the flows of information and materials supporting every product
family in a facility. With this system in place, each production
activity requests precisely the materials it needs from the
previous activity and demand from the customer is leveled to smooth
production activities throughout the plant.
Building a Lean Fulfillment Stream
Building a Lean Fulfillment Stream will change the way
you think about your supply chain and logistics networks. Even
better — it gives you a way to act using lean principles to
transform and continuously improve these two key flows.
This workbook explains a step-by-step a comprehensive, real-life
implementation process for optimizing your entire fulfillment
stream from raw materials to customers, including practical
insights into two critical concepts: calculating the total cost of
fulfillment and collaborating across all functions and firms along
the fulfillment stream.
Seeing the Whole Value Stream
Seeing the Whole Value Stream builds on the mapping
technique introduced in Learning to See, extending the
field of view all the way up and down the value stream. In this
workbook, Dan Jones and Jim Womack, co-authors of Lean
Thinking, provide a management tool for identifying and
removing waste along the entire value stream from raw materials to
end customer.
By identifying all the steps and time required to move a typical
product from raw materials to finished goods, the authors show that
nearly 90 percent of the actions and 99.99 percent of the time
required for the value chain’s Current State create no value. In
addition, the mapping method clearly shows demand amplification of
orders as they travel up the value stream, steadily growing quality
problems, and steadily deteriorating shipping performance at every
point up stream from the customer. Applying the method to a
realistic example, the authors show how four firms sharing a value
stream can create a win-win-win-win future in which everyone,
including the end consumer, can be better off.
The workbook finishes with five essays demonstrating how real
companies in multiple sectors have taken on the challenge of
improving their extended value streams working in collaboration
with their suppliers and customers.
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