Production flow improvement and value stream mapping in a lean manufacturing world

Implementation of a Lean Model for Carrying out Value Stream Mapping in a Manufacturing Industry

Value Stream Mapping technique involves flowcharting the steps, activities, material flows, communications, and other process elements that are involved with a process or transformation. In this respect, Value stream mapping helps an organization to identify the non-value-adding elements in a targeted process and brings a product or a group of products that use the same resources through the ma...

Lean manufacturing: costing the value stream

The term “lean manufacturing”, (Womack et al., 1990), refers to the generalization of the Toyota Production system (TPS), also called Just-in-Time (JIT). One feature of such system is the reduction of costs through elimination of waste (Sugimori et al., 1977). Waste or muda (in Japanese) is anything that does not add value to a product. Elimination of muda is done by means of continuous improve...

An Application of Simulation and Value Stream Mapping in Lean Manufacturing

Physical factory layout redesigns or changes of the supply chain infrastructure involve high costs. Through simulation and value stream mapping, managers can see the impacts before the implementation and transform the organization into a lean one at minimal cost. In this paper, we investigate some relevant lean manufacturing literature where lean principles and tools are presented or utilized. ...

Integrating Work Environment Considerations Into Lean and Value Stream Mapping

Operationalization of Lean Thinking through Value Stream Mapping with Simulation and FLOW

L ean thinking has been successfully employed beyond manufacturing in product design and development. This has led to an increasing interest to utilize it in software engineering (SE). The thesis advances this goal by identifying the key practice of Value Stream Mapping (VSM) that can facilitate organizations to adopt Lean for software development. Two major shortcomings of VSM when applying it...