1. Value Stream Mapping

2. Lean software development - Eliminate waste
A value stream mapping technique is used to distinguish and recognize waste

3. Lean manufacturing - Overview
A non exhaustive list of such tools would include: Single-Minute Exchange of Die|SMED, Value Stream Mapping, 5S (methodology)|Five S, Kanban (pull systems), poka-yoke (error-proofing), Total Productive Maintenance, elimination of time batching, mixed model processing, Rank Order Clustering, single point scheduling (production processes)|scheduling, redesigning working cells, multi-process handling and control charts (for checking mura).

4. Lean manufacturing - Differences from TPS
So, for example, Value Stream Mapping focuses upon material and information flow problems (a title built into the Toyota title for this activity) but is not strong on Metrics, Man or Method

5. Value chain - Significance
The value chain framework quickly made its way to the forefront of management thought as a powerful analysis tool for strategic planning. The simpler concept of Value stream mapping|value streams, a cross-functional process which was developed over the next decade,, particularly the Con Edison example. had some success in the early 1990s.

6. Operations management - Configuration and Management
In Toyota the TPS represented more of a philosophy of production than a set of specific tools, the latter would include: Single-Minute Exchange of Die|SMED, Value Stream Mapping, 5S (methodology)|5S, poka-yoke, elimination of time batching, lot-size reduction, Rank Order Clustering, single point scheduling (production processes)|scheduling, multi-process handling and backflush accounting.

7. Value stream mapping
'Value stream mapping' is a lean management principle used to analyze and design the flow of materials and information required to bring a product or service to a consumer. Pioneered by Henry Ford in the 1920s, perfected by Toyota. At Toyota, it is known as material and information flow mapping. It can be applied to nearly any value chain.

8. Value stream mapping - Applications
Value stream mapping has supporting methods that are often used in Lean manufacturing|Lean environments to analyze and design flows at the system level (across multiple processes).

9. Value stream mapping - Applications
Although value stream mapping is often associated with manufacturing, it is also used in logistics, supply chain, service related industries, healthcare, Lean software development|software development, product development, and administrative and office processes.

10. Value stream mapping - Applications
Value stream mapping is a recognised method used as part of Six Sigma methodologies.Value Stream Mapping Article Source:

11. Value stream mapping - Metrics
A key metric associated with value stream mapping is lead time.

12. Value stream mapping - Associated analysis methods
Hines and Rich (1997) defined seven value stream mapping tools they are:

13. Lean IT - Value-Stream Mapping
Lean IT, like its lean manufacturing counterpart, involves a methodology of 'value stream mapping|value-stream mapping'The value-stream methodology originated at Toyota, where it is known as Material and Information Flow Mapping

14. Lean IT - Implementation of Lean IT
Workload automation software, which helps IT organizations optimize real-time performance of complex business workloads across diverse IT infrastructures, and other application dependency mapping tools can be an additional help in value stream mapping.[ The Evolution of Job Scheduling: CA's Approach to Workload Automation]

15. Muda (Japanese term) - Implementation
He states that whereas many see Process and Operations in parallel he sees them at right angles (orthogonal) (see Value Stream Mapping)

16. Backflush accounting - Alternatives to backflushing
This is due to the lead-times needed for each assembly and can be analyzed by using a technique called Value stream mapping

17. Predetermined motion time systems
Such garment sewing data is useful for “sewing load balancing in line with Value Stream Mapping (VSM) and added value measurement

18. Single-Minute Exchange of Die
However SMED's utility of is not limited to manufacturing (see value stream mapping).

19. Predetermined time systems
Such garment sewing data is useful for “sewing load balancing in line with Value Stream Mapping (VSM) and added value measurement

20. Health care in the United States - System efficiency and equity
Lean manufacturing techniques such as value stream mapping can help identify and subsequently mitigate waste associated with costs of healthcare. Other product engineering tools such as Failure mode and effects analysis|FMEA and Ishikawa diagram|Fish Bone Diagrams have been used to improve efficiencies in healthcare delivery.

21. Kaisen - Implementation
In the Toyota Way Fieldbook, Liker and Meier discuss the kaizen blitz and kaizen burst (or kaizen event) approaches to continuous improvement. A kaizen blitz, or rapid improvement, is a focused activity on a particular process or activity. The basic concept is to identify and quickly remove waste. Another approach is that of the kaizen burst, a specific kaizen activity on a particular process in the Value stream mapping|value stream.

22. Lean construction - What is lean construction?
A sampling of these tools includes: choosing by advantages (CBA), Building information modeling|BIM (Lean Design), A3, process design (Lean Design), offsite fabrication and Just in time (business)|JIT (Lean Supply), Value stream mapping|value chain mapping (Lean Assembly), visual site (Lean Assembly); 5S (methodology)|5S (Lean Assembly), daily crew Stand-up meeting|huddles (Lean Assembly).

23. Lean construction - Differences between LC and project management approaches
*In the lean approach, pull techniques govern the Value stream mapping|flow of information and materials, from upstream to downstream; with PMI, push techniques govern the release of information and materials.

24. Forrester effect mapping
The tool is one of the seven Value Stream Mapping tools as defined by Hines and Rich.Lean Evolution: Lessons from the Workplace By Nick Rich, Ann Esain, Nicola Bateman

25. Norman Bodek - Later work and visits to Japan
He was one of the first to publish books and training materials on Single-Minute Exchange of Die|SMED, CEDAC, Quality circle|Quality Control Circles, 5S (methodology)|5S, and the visual control|Visual Factoryhttp://efficiency100.com/VisualFactory.htm Total productive maintenance|Total Productive Maintenance, Value Stream Mapping, Kaizen and Kaizen Blitz, Cellular manufacturing|Cell Design, Poka-Yoke, Andon (manufacturing)|Andon, Hoshin Kanri, and Kanban

26. List of discrete event simulation software - Commercial
* Simcad Pro Dynamic Discrete and continuous simulation software. Visual interface with no coding environment. Support 2D and 3D Animation and Value Stream Mapping.

27. List of computer simulation software - Proprietary
*Simcad Pro - Dynamic Discrete and continuous simulation software. Visual interface with no coding environment. Support 2D and 3D animation and value stream mapping.

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