The fundamental tool to identify waste, create effective process flow, reduce process cycle times, and implement process improvement.

Course Overview

Many organizations that have started down the “Lean Journey” have realized that improvement events alone are not enough to take the organization to the next level of excellence, productivity, and efficiency. Improvement events create localized improvements, however, Lean tools such as Value Stream Mapping strengthens the gains obtained by providing vision and plan that connect all improvement activities.

The primary purpose of creating a value stream map is to show you the places where you can improve your process by visualizing both its value-adding and wasteful steps. It employs a flowchart documenting every step in the process and therefore helps to identify waste, look for ways to reduce or eliminate the waste, and create effective flow of materials and information through all the processes in an organization.

It is widely used to improve individual processes but can also be used to analyse and design flows at the system level across multiple processes, or across different departments.

Structure of the Course

Our Value Stream Mapping Training course has been designed as a one-day programme so that your business can use it as the tool that allows you to see waste in manufacturing, production, and business processes, and provides the foundation for the creation of plans to remove or streamline non-value-adding steps. This is achieved by analysing the current state and designing a future state for the series of events that take a product or service from its beginning through to the customer.

In Value Stream Mapping we follow a process from start to finish monitoring and measuring what happens within, and between, each process step. A flow diagram showing the process is drawn to reflect the current state of the operation. The non-value actions are identified in each step, and the process is analysed for opportunity to drastically reduce and simplify it to the fewest actions necessary.

By reducing wastefulness, the redesigned process becomes more streamlined (the right things are being done) and more efficient (needing fewer resources). The reengineered process is flow charted in its future state with process steps and information flows redesigned, simplified, and made less expensive.

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

This one-day, highly interactive workshop will provide you with all the skills you need to use the Value Stream Mapping approach to make your processes more efficient. Delegates will analyse a real process, map the current state of a real process, identify waste in the process, and apply the tools to map the future state streamlining the process and achieving greater efficiency and productivity, thus building knowledge and confidence to lead and participate in mapping processes back at your organisation.

Who would benefit from this Approach?

Anyone who manages a process and wishes to make it more efficient and productive will benefit from this workshop. Managers who make decisions, and employees who work on the process being mapped should also be involved.

Cost

In-house workshop for up to 12 participants: £1500 + VAT per group.

In-house Option

This workshop is delivered in-house as a stand-alone training workshop or integrated into wider improvement activities. In-house workshops have the added benefit that an process trainees are familiar with can be used during training to demonstrate the value of the methodology and help make the training relevant. Contact us for bespoke pricing at compete@cforc.org. We will be happy to discuss Value Stream Mapping in the context of your own business needs.

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Value Stream Mapping Workshop