Learning to See Using Value Stream Mapping 

Accurately target your continuous improvement efforts to where they will have substantial and sustainable impact on quality, costs, time to market, and other performance factors that are critical to customers and your company’s success.

Learn how to use value-stream mapping, a fundamental lean management tool that creates “blueprints” for applying other techniques such as kaizen events most effectively.

A value-stream map is a drawing – using a computer or pencil and paper – of the operations, steps, inputs, and outputs that make up a process. Value-stream mapping is significantly more powerful than tools such as process mapping or layout diagrams because they capture information flow as well as material flow and other key data. A map pulls out processes from the background clutter of an organization, so you can build an entire value stream based on lean principles.

• Welcome to Online VSM! (~7 minutes)]
• Introduction (~15 minutes)
• Current State Map (~40 minutes plus hands-on time)
• Your Own Current State Map (10 minutes plus hands-on time)
• Assess Current State (30 minutes plus hands-on time)
• Future State Map (45 minutes plus hands-on time)
• Implementation Plan (20 minutes plus hands-on time)
• Resources & Feedback (5 minutes)

Who Should Attend

• Continuous improvement professionals, operators, engineers, managers, supervisors, technical support personnel, and change agents
• Organizations at any level of a lean journey, particularly (though not exclusively) those just beginning
• Any industry with multi-step processes

Learning to See, however, no prerequisite training or reading is required for this workshop. Familiarity with lean management basics is helpful.