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Cheetah or Snail?

Does your organization focus on lead time reduction?

If not, take the opportunity to reduce cost in your value flow. With Yourflow your Team can easily make huge improvements withous any investments!

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Are you still talking about Layout instead of Value Flow?

The Layout is a consequence of Value Flow design.

A layout do not contain any information important for Productivity evaluation of a production system.

When designing the Value Flow, the layout is automatically generated as a result from the design work.

Take the step now and use the right tool for the right purpose.

KPI driver = Lead time

New year !

Take the opportunity to really improve your value flow!

Easiest way is to target Lead time!

KPI tree shows that Lead time is the Driver!

The buffer double slap ...

If you want to attack lead time, the most effective approach is to reduce or eliminate buffers and inventories. Buffers and inventories also have another negative impact on productivity as shown in the image below.

To handle a buffer or inventory you need manhours, equipment and space. All this is cost for non-value added activities and is called the buffer "double slap". Start reducing lead time today by contacting us at YourFlow!

Perspective...

Good continuation on the new year!

Evoution of tools for different areas

The development of tools for Product design compared to tools for Production & logistic design is quite striking.......

do you still roll up your VSM and hope that the glue won`t get dry before the job is finished

Working with value stream mapping should be an ongoing activity that never rest from challenging your productivity indicators. The quantitative approach that VSM provide will support the qualitative discussion when evaluating improvements. Going into VSM as a project will fail, you may have some short term results but long term continuous improvements that really affect productivity will not be a reality. To be able to establish a new standard there is a need for an easy to use tool that don´t stop you from keeping the maps up-dated. And if the tool saves time and also supports teamwork, so everyone have the opportunity to participate and contribute! Than you have the right prerequisites to achieve more!

You can save time!

With YourFlow you can easily design your value flow map independently of how many parts you want to include in your work, it is easy and it is done fast!

So you can have all products and parts in one file, all calculations is performed simultaneously as the data is entered into any object in the map.

To have all parts in one file give possibilities to make better analysis.

It also facilitate the continuous improvement work since YourFlow require less time to up-date your maps when your processes is changed. 

Heavy work-load to use VSM the old way......

A lot of companies started to use Value stream mapping many years ago.

Some of them started VSM as a project, or as a part of a project. When project ended, improvement work based on VSM also ended.....

Some major experiences were the work load to up-date or keep the VSM up-dated....sometimes it felt unbearable.......

......Stop asking about the layout!....

...Use YourFlow Productivity Remember Card to help you ask the right questions and focusing on the Productivity Indicators that makes the difference!

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Value stream mapping improve your Productivity

CAD and VSM

With VSM your organisation can make real productivity improvements, that is not reached with only CAD-work.

How does your organization use tools?

Still production engineering and logistic development is a neglected area, often wrong tools are used in a wrong way.

What effects can a high WIP give? (3)

Production system with too high WIP tend to have big variations in leadtime since a little variation in WIP gives big variations in leadtime. They also usually spend a lot of time in planning and re-planning.....

Does Leadtime affect Productivity? (Posting 2)

Yes, it does!

But how?

To understand how discrete production system "works" we need to go back some years in time.

John Little, already in 1961 explained Little´s formula: WIP = Deliveries * Leadtime.

All production engineers, logistic developers and especially managers should really understand
Little´s formula.

If you understand how your own production system "follows" and "behaves", you are able to take the right actions for improvements. You will also understand the negative impact that a too high WIP have on productivity.

Anders Segerstedt does in a really pedagogic way explain this in "The physics in the plant".

The curves below visualize Little formula.

As you can see in the left picture, Deliveries do not increase when a certain point of WIP is reached.
In real systems they may even have a tendency to decrease.