Value Stream Mapping Program Helps Companies Lay Groundwork for Success
February 3, 2006 − The Value Stream Mapping (VSM) Solution Package from Enna provides all the information, materials and techniques that a company needs in order to lead its own VSM program. Action-oriented, it is structured around three full days of analysis and team-training, resulting in the development of a comprehensive improvement plan.
Value Stream Mapping (VSM) allows companies to set out the complete production operation from point of receipt of raw materials through manufacturing processes to shipping. In so doing, they can identify where waste occurs on the 'current' map and create an effective 'future-state' map along with an implementation plan for change and improvement.
The Enna VSM Solution Package provides participants with all the content, materials and tools that they need to create maps and develop the plan. It gives the program facilitator, who is on staff and not an expensive outside consultant, all the information he or she needs to prepare and lead the program.
There are many components to the Enna VSM Solution Package that make it the best on the market, including comprehensive guides, forms, workbooks and digital media. An industry first is the use of adhering technology by way of 3M Post-it® notes for data boxes and Kaizen Bursts.
Data boxes are the primary data collection tool for any given process, and the Post-it® notes allow the results to be displayed instantly on the map. The Kaizen Bursts are used for jotting down ideas during brainstorming sessions. They, too, are attached to the map, for later discussion. Some of these ideas can pay big dividends.
The Facilitator Guide is a key component, since it provides the facilitator with practical and information-rich directions to maximize his or her efforts.
The Facilitator Guide contains:
o Complete instructions as the facilitator proceeds through the workshop
o Explanatory text providing extra content with respect to the digital media
o Sample trainer narrative regarding content to be communicated to participants
o Transcripts for visual segments when drawing diagrams is made necessary
The digital media CD uses Flash technology that offers superior performance to anything that can be designed in PowerPoint. Digital illustrations are both 2D and 3D, which imparts rich, memorable imagery. Smooth transitions and ease of use are among the many benefits, and the CD contains the Flash player needed to play the presentations.
The package contains eight participant workbooks that will also serve as reference material. They combine information, illustrations, key questions, self-assessment material and space for notes.
Each workbook helps:
o Follow the trainer through the learning experience
o Evaluate the challenges of creating a VSM of the work area
o Allow for documentation of the workshop
o Enrich the instructional experience so as to encourage individual participation.
o Generate self-assessment forms to solidify retention of key concepts.
Enna's VSM Solution Package provides the communication and training that today's industrial enterprises must have if they are to manage sustainable change in their operations.
At the detail level, key elements of the Enna VSM Solution Package include:
o Product Family Matrix Forms, to record product flow
o Histogram Analysis Forms, to delineate business cycles, including seasonality
o Pareto Analysis Forms, for ensuring focus on the most important product
o Data Box Forms, for recording critical process data
o Kaizen Improvement Burst Forms, for brainstorming ideas and solutions.
The Enna VSM Solution Package is the basis for success for any manufacturing company, both in the way it develops a thorough understanding among participants of the enterprise and in the way it prepares them for future advanced manufacturing programs.
Contact:
Collin McLoughlin
Enna
363 Lang Blvd.
Buffalo, NY, 14072
Ph.: 866-249-7348
Fax: 905-481-0756
collin@enna.com
www.enna.com
