Business Excellence Consortium

Value Stream Mapping

Identify waste and improve customer satisfaction in your organization!

The BEC is offering a three-day session on Value Stream Mapping (VSM). This simulation-based course provides participants with a visual tool that graphically identifies every process in a product’s flow, giving visibility to both the value-adding steps as well as the non-value-adding steps. The BEC’s VSM session is conducted onsite at a member-host facility, combining classroom instruction, practical hands-on mapping exercises and a full VSM implementation exercise where participants are broken into teams, with each team assigned a product family and control part to map.

Pre-requisite: Overview of Lean must be taken prior to attending Value Stream Mapping.

Why apply Value Stream Mapping to your organization?

• Helps break down communication barriers
• Provides the basis for an implementation road map
• Identifies waste so it can be eliminated thereby improving customer satisfaction
• Creates a vision of the future by uncovering wastes and opportunities to create flow – and making them visible to all
• Enables broad participation in shaping the future

Upon completion of the BEC’s Value Stream Mapping, participants will have learned:

• Introduction to Lean principles: Lean cycle methodology
• The definition of value stream mapping
• The current state map (with hands-on simulation exercise)
• Lean value stream
• The future state map (with hands-on simulation exercise)
• Generating a future state map
• Achieving the future state (planning with host company)

The Business Excellence Consortium at the Milwaukee School of Engineering has partnered with WCM Associates, a consulting and book publishing company, dedicated to the dissemination and the implementation of advanced techniques of world class manufacturing. This partnership combines real world experience with a proven method of knowledge transfer resulting in high impact training and implementation support!