If you have mapping experience, but need guidance as to how best to use the kit, take the associated workshop, Training to See - An Orientation to the Value-Stream Mapping Kit. There is no additional charge for the orientation workshop if your purchase the kit from LEI.
Our updated Training To See kit has everything you need to run your own value-stream mapping workshops — except a comfortable pair of shoes for walking your value streams — including an opening/closing video with Jim Womack in DVD format, hands-on mapping materials to get your teams started, templates of key forms, and a starter lean library.
The kit enables you to take people through the exercise of selecting a product family, mapping its current state to identify the root causes of waste, mapping a much leaner future state, and developing a plan to implement the future state to achieve immediate results. The improved kit remains true to the proven approach and lessons in Learning to See, LEI’s breakthrough workbook that introduced the value-stream mapping tool. By purchasing additional Participant Guides you can deliver consistent training at all levels of your organization.
The kit includes:
- A Facilitator’s Guide for leading your own value-stream mapping workshops, including tips and suggestions for having a successful training session
- 20 Participant Guides so students can follow along with the facilitator
- A CD-ROM containing PowerPoint slides for the facilitator, and five forms for starting and sustaining the transformation:
- a product-family matrix blank form for identifying product families to map
- communication forms for facilitators, including a memo to confirm attendance at the mapping workshop, a workshop evaluation form, and a follow-up letter to attendees to gauge their initial progress
- a certificate of completion, customizable for your company
- an annual value-stream plan template showing goals, steps, checkpoints, and deadlines
- a value-stream review template to evaluate progress toward each objective on your future-state maps and manage obstacles.
- A video (DVD) with Jim Womack's opening and closing remarks
- A rugged Cordura® nylon carrying bag with roomy pockets for all your mapping essentials
- An 11-by-17-inch Value-Stream Mapping Pad with 50 sheets
- A Value-Stream Mapping Stencil with 32 icons to help you draw
- A stop watch for capturing cycle times
- A calculator for figuring takt times and other value-stream data
- 20 mechanical pencils — with erasers, of course — for drawing maps
- A starter lean library consisting of Lean Thinking, the Learning to See workbook, and the Lean Lexicon, 4th edition, a graphical glossary of key lean terms and concepts
About value-stream mapping:
Value-stream mapping is a fundamental initial step in a lean transformation because it leads to a better overall flow in an entire process instead of isolated improvements to a single point in a process.
As a result, mapping creates a blueprint for applying other tools and kaizens. It also helps people see beyond the symptoms of waste to the root causes so they can make more substantial and sustainable improvements. Every company that is serious about becoming lean will want its employees and its suppliers’ employees to know this basic tool. The Training to See kit delivers everything you need to run comprehensive and cost-effective mapping workshops.
Mike Rother
Mike is the a co-author of Learning to See, the book that introduced value-stream mapping. He is also the co-author of Creating Continuous Flow: an action guide for managers, engineers and production associates, which received a Shingo prize in 2003.His latest book is Toyota Kata (McGraw-Hill). Mike is an engineer, a researcher, teacher, consultant, and speaker on the subjects of management, leadership, improvement, adaptiveness, and change in human organizations. His affiliations have included the Industrial Technology Institute (Ann Arbor), the University of Michigan College of Engineering, the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (Stuttgart), and the Technical University Dortmund. Mike began his career in the manufacturing division of Thyssen AG in Germany. He lives in Ann Arbor, MI, and Cologne, Germany.
John Shook
Shook learned about lean management while working for Toyota for nearly 11 years in Japan and the U.S., helping it transfer production, engineering, and management systems from Japan to NUMMI and subsequently to other operations around the world. While at Toyota's headquarters, he became the company's first American kacho (manager) in Japan. In the U.S., Shook joined Toyota’s North American engineering, research and development center in Ann Arbor, MI, as general manager of administration and planning. His last position with Toyota was as senior American manager with the Toyota Supplier Support Center in Lexington, KY, assisting North American companies implement the Toyota Production System. As co-author of Learning to See John helped introduce the world to value-stream mapping. John also co-authored Kaizen Express, a bi-lingual manual of the essential concepts and tools of the Toyota Production System. In his latest book Managing to Learn, he describes the A3 management process at the heart of lean management and leadership.
Shook is an industrial anthropologist with a bachelor’s degree from the University of Tennessee, a master’s degree from the University of Hawaii, and is a graduate of the Japan-America Institute of Management Science. He is the former director of the University of Michigan, Japan Technological Management Program, and faculty of the university’s Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering. Shook also helps companies learn lean management through the Lean Transformations Group, LLC, and the TWI Network, Inc.
