Value Stream Mapping
(VSM)
Streamline, visualize, optimize.
Transforming Processes, Empowering Performance
What is Value Stream Mapping?
Many organizations today suffer from silo-centric behavior and intra-organizational conflict. Yet, most do not understand what's holding them back from achieving outstanding performance.
Value stream mapping is a powerful and proven approach to help you visualize and resolve disconnects, redundancies, and gaps in your value delivery system. More than simply a tool to eliminate operational waste, value stream mapping is a highly effective means to transform leadership thinking, define strategy and priorities, and create customer-centric workflow.
After analyzing and identifying where the waste are, you can develop and implement future state maps that enable outstanding performance and continued improvement.
The value stream mapping technique can be applied to both manufacturing and service-based organizations.
Value stream mapping exposes waste and bottlenecks in your processes
Over-production
Producing more than what the customer needs.
Waiting
Employees waiting for another process, equipment or person.
Motion
Extra physical/mental motion that does not add value.
Transportation
Moving raw materials or documents or traveling from one place to another.
Inventory
Building or storing extra products that the customer has not ordered.
Defects
Scrap, rework, data errors or missing information in documents.
Over-processing
Adding extra value when the customer does not require it.
Intellect
Not using employees full intellectual contribution.
Learn how to create current state and future state value stream maps and identify opportunities to achieve the future state that have the greatest impacts on the business and customer value.
IMPACT STORY
Transforming Efficiency: Value Stream Mapping for a Global Semiconductor Leader
Our client, one of the world's top ten semiconductor manufacturing companies, specializes in memory and storage solutions. Despite significant improvements through traditional industrial engineering (IE) methods, they recognized further opportunities for optimization. By employing Value Stream Mapping (VSM), they aimed to uncover additional cost savings and process efficiencies in their Assembly, Test, and Module departments. Their goal was to redefine their value streams, eliminate waste, and offer significantly improved value to their customers.
July 7, 2024
Highlights of our VSM Workshops & Activities
Senior executives and managers simulating a process flow to visualize waste and bottlenecks.
Waste identification workshop in a government agency.
VSM project in a semiconductor company exposed US$1 million cost savings opportunity.
Value Stream Mapping and Opportunity Assessment
Our consultants can help you to create current state and future state value stream maps, and identify opportunities to achieve the future state that have the greatest impacts on the business as well as customer value.
We can facilitate your organization to become leaner and faster through the proper application of value stream mapping technique and tools. Our services include:
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Enabling your project teams on value stream mapping principles, concepts, method and tools
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Creating a value stream map for both the current and future states
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Developing and implementing a data collection plan for the value stream map
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Conducting end-to-end assessment of value-added versus non-value-added activities
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Scoping opportunities by framing project problem statements based on identified waste
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Prioritizing improvement projects based on strategic objectives
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Developing an action plan to achieve the future state