Going Lean: Value Stream Mapping

Course Code: LVS
Delivery: Online
Languages: English, Chinese

A value stream is the set of all activities, from request to delivery, used to provide a product or service to our clients and customers. Understanding and improving processes as integrated end-to-end systems is fundamental to real and sustainable improvement. Value Stream Mapping is a core Lean technique that provides an end-to-end "systems" perspective for coordinated process improvement.

Audience:

Value Stream Mapping is an interactive, multimedia, eLearning training program. It is intended for managers, operators, technicians, engineers, and trainers who work in, or are transitioning to, a Lean workplace.

Objectives:

Participants successfully completing the program will be able to:

  • Describe the value stream and Value Stream Mapping
  • Understand six major steps in value stream improvement
  • Describe the differences between process mapping and value stream mapping
  • Identify the value stream or value stream family
  • Explain how to develop the current-state value stream map
  • Identify the symbols used to illustrate process physical and information flows
  • Describe basic team problem-solving tools, Brainstorming, Five Why
  • Explain how to develop the future-state value stream map and implementation plan
  • Explain the analysis of the current-state, client demand, takt time, waste
  • Describe Kaizen bursts, improvement opportunities, the pacemaker
  • Describe how to sequence and coordinate improvement activities
  • Describe the execution of the plan through kaizen improvement teams
  • Explain how to move from the current state toward a future-state vision

Qualification and Certification Testing

certification Our training incorporates interactive learning checks throughout the instructional sequences. Certification tests are criterion-referenced and module-based with feedback on every response for enhanced learning. Administrative access to dates and scores of tests, certifications, and re-certifications is compliant with ISO quality-standards training requirements.

ISBN 0-9736935-1-7

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