Course Overview

The Overview of Value Stream Mapping Course provides a comprehensive look at how VSM can help you streamline your operations. It cover what Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is in order to provide you with the foundational understanding that will allow to move on to the more advanced VSM concepts.

To go along with this foundational knowledge are the tools that will help guide you to the best decisions regarding your Value Stream Map. Finally, the common VSM icons will be discussed, providing you with a solid understanding of what to include and how to read Value Stream Maps.

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The Lean Fundamentals course provides an overview of basic Lean Manufacturing principles and what you need to get started. You will learn about the 7 Wastes and the negative effects that create poor processes. Explore push and pull systems and how they impact your ability to respond to customer demand.

Learn about some of the major tools used to combat the 7 Wastes, and ways you can overhaul your processes to become more efficient. Delve into Value-Added and Non Value-Added techniques, and how to best reduce motion, transportation, waiting, over-processing, inventory, defects and overproduction.

Discover why flow is so important for the layout of your facility and much, much more! This course is the perfect first step for your Lean journey or an excellent refresher for those looking to brush up on their Lean basics.

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Preparing for Value Stream Mapping is just as important as mapping the process itself. This course provides an overview of the metrics and measurements you will need to take before beginning in order to create the best possible Value Stream Maps.

Learn the benefits of Flow and Pull, and why this system consistently outperforms the more traditional mass production system. You will also be introduced to data boxes and their use in your VSM, as well as an explanation of Takt Time and why this is such an important metric to use.

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Implementing VSM Step 1: Current State shows how to measure and map your current state of operations to establish baselines, both within and beyond your organization. You cannot improve your operations until you know where you currently stand.

Outlined will be an explanation of what a Current State Map should contain, as well as the importance of noting particular measurements and metrics. As well, an explanation of how you can create your own Current State Map and how you can extend VSM past the four walls of your organization will be covered.

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This course delves into the history of Lean Manufacturing. It covers the time leading up to Lean Manufacturing’s inception, including the key people, and events in history that shaped how Lean thinking was developed.

Expand beyond the Toyota Motor Corporation and delve deep into how Lean and its related philosophies, transformed industries worldwide. Learn what King Henry’s Venetian arsenal, Eli Whitney’s interchangeable parts and Henry Ford’s Model T have contributed to Lean learning and how you can tap into their innovative spirit. Trace the course of history as each generation brings fresh ideas to the concept of Lean and efficient operations.

Did you know that laws in Germany restricting auto sales actually helped Toyota improve their production techniques? This course is jam packed with historical examples on how changing circumstances required groundbreaking innovation.

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Plan for the future of your organization with a Future State Map! This walkthrough explores the steps of building your own VSM Future State Map. Outlined will be an explanation of what a Future State Map should contain, as well as the importance of noting particular measurements and metrics.

As well, an explanation of how you can create your own Future State Map and how you can extend VSM past the four walls of your organization will be covered.

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Discover the advantages of Lean over traditional mass production manufacturing, and how the world’s leading organizations have used Lean and Kaizen principles to gain a strategic advantage over their competition.

This course covers why you should use Lean, as well as outlining the benefits and advantages you will gain by exploring a new perspective on how to operate your organization. Explore the limitations of Mass Productions and dive into the true spirit of Kaizen to take a closer look at how world leaders use Lean within their own organizations.

Lean is a blanket philosophy, but it has to be customized to each organization so that it fits with you and your facilities needs. However, by exploring what others have done and why they have taken the Lean journey, you will gain a deeper understanding of the options available to you.

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What is Cell Manufacturing, where did it come from, and how can it best help create value for my facility? The answers to these questions and more will be addressed in this course on VSM and Discrete Manufacturing.

You will learn what Cell Manufacturing is, where it originated from, and how it can be used to streamline your operations and create a more engaged and cross-functionally trained workforce. The different ways you can establish, maintain, and assess the functionality of your implementation of Cell Manufacturing will also be addressed.

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Learn how some of the top thinkers in the United States helped contribute to, and shape, the conception of Lean Manufacturing’s principles. Examine Frederick Taylor’s legacy as the father of standard work, a key lean principle.

Delve into Henry Ford’s contributions to manufacturing but also his long-standing legacy in determining how workers are treated within the manufacturing industry. Learn how you can follow in his footsteps and empower and engaging your workforce drawing on his techniques.

Examine William Deming’s humble beginnings and his commitment to waste elimination and complete your tour of American Lean thought leaders with Joseph Juran’s philosophy of defect elimination. Juran’s studies were instrumental in promoting quality control and human resistance to change and his ideas left a lasting impression on Lean thinking.

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This course outlines the complex stages of a Pull Production System, and how that system is integral to creating your Future State Maps and improving your processes. Breaking down a Pull Production System into 5 easy steps, you will be exposed to new ways to create flow and alignment throughout your organization.

This course will also cover a variation of Pull Production called 2 Stage Pull, and will explain the benefits and reasons to use this system.