{"id":134,"date":"2012-06-11T06:41:49","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T13:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hachiroku.ca\/dev\/project\/wordpress\/?p=134"},"modified":"2015-04-11T16:58:52","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T16:58:52","slug":"current-state-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/current-state-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Value Stream Mapping (VSM)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Value_stream_mapping\">Value Stream Mapping (VSM)<\/a> originally came from the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Toyota_Production_System\">Toyota Production System (TPS)<\/a> where it is known as &#8220;material and information flow mapping&#8221; and is the defacto current state mapping method for lean design (product and service based).<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/images\/vsm_process.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"vsm_process\" src=\"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/images\/vsm_process.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"68\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<h5>When to use it?<\/h5>\n<p>Use VSM for process mapping that is <strong>low variability<\/strong> AND <strong>high volume<\/strong>. In my experience it is the high volume that is the more important of the two. If you have low variability in a process but the volume is quite low the value from doing a VSM and Kaizen event is greatly diminished.<\/p>\n<h5>When NOT to use it?<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>In disjointed product development processes<\/li>\n<li>Where there is no \u201cproduct\u201d to follow<\/li>\n<li>Where there is high variety\/low volume<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Value Stream Mapping &#8211; Current State<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Select a Product\/Service Family<\/li>\n<li>Form a Team<\/li>\n<li>Understand Customer Demand<\/li>\n<li>Map the Process Flow<\/li>\n<li>Map the Material Flow<\/li>\n<li>Map the Information Flow<\/li>\n<li>Calculate Total Product Cycle Time<\/li>\n<li>Detail Off-Line Activities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<figure style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/images\/vsm_production.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo\" title=\"vsm_production\" src=\"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/images\/vsm_production.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"381\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sample VSM Data Box<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/images\/tools_and_templates.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"no_border\" title=\"tools_and_templates\" src=\"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/images\/tools_and_templates.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-134\" data-postid=\"134\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-134 themify_builder\">\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Value Stream Mapping (VSM) originally came from the Toyota Production System (TPS) where it is known as &#8220;material and information flow mapping&#8221; and is the defacto current state mapping method for lean design (product and service based). When to use it? Use VSM for process mapping that is low variability AND high volume. In my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-process-improvement","category-tool-box","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}