This is an excerpt from the book "Five Minute Lean", by David McLachlan - a wonderful book that blends teaching of the tools, culture and philosophy of traditional Lean with a modern-day Lean parable. You can get the whole book on Amazon here and enjoy your own copy.
Create a Future State Value Stream Map
Seeing the possible changes that can be made side by side with an existing process is one of the most eye-opening experiences ever. As a manager or business owner it is possible to lose touch with the ground-level processes, and seeing improvements mapped out clearly can be extremely valuable.
This step is called “Perfection” at the Lean Enterprise Institute, simply because when we are continually improving, testing changes and streamlining processes, then our aim of perfection becomes much more achievable.
Going through the steps so far, we have a Current State Value Stream Map that shows us our wastes, queues, rework and more. Once we have been through the process of brainstorming ideas for eliminating waste and increasing value, we need to show what it would look like in a Future State Value Stream Map and present it to the appropriate decision makers.
This is the kind of tool that Lisa can use to build a case and help management or stakeholders buy in to the change.
Have any existing processes been taken out? Have we taken out queues or combined two systems into one? Have we performed Line Balancing? Have we added in Supermarkets, FIFO, Error Proofing, Visual Management or new Kanban triggers? All of these will change the Value Stream Map, and now it’s time to show the effects. We should ensure that our new reduced timings are included, including our new Value Add times versus Non Value Add times and the new total Lead time.
Presenting a change in this way ensures professional results, using solid data and facts to support them. An “A3” can also help your presentation, which we discuss in (5.2).
This is an excerpt from the book "Five Minute Lean", by David McLachlan - a wonderful book that blends teaching of the tools, culture and philosophy of traditional Lean with a modern-day Lean parable. You can get the whole book on Amazon here and enjoy your own copy.
Selected chapters from the story within Five minute Lean:
- Lean Parable – Where Lisa Makes a Change
- Lean Parable – Where Lisa Discovers a New Way
- Lean Parable – Where Lisa Performs a Balancing Act
- Lean Parable – Where Lisa Pulls the Trigger
- Lean Parable – Where Lisa Sets a New Standard
- Lean Parable – Where Lisa Becomes a Leader
Check out these selected chapters from the teachings within Five Minute Lean:
- Five Minute Lean – Collect and Measure Feedback With the Net Promoter Score
- Five Minute Lean – Eliminate the Eight Wastes to Improve Flow
- Five Minute Lean – Use Kaizen and Kaizen Events to Help Stakeholder Buy-In
- Five Minute Lean – Solve the Real Cause of the Problem
- Five Minute Lean – Present and Manage Your Change Using an A3 and LCA
- Five Minute Lean – Map the Value Stream to Reveal Opportunities
- Five Minute Lean – Use Pareto to Find Where to Start
- Five Minute Lean – Make Feedback Meaningful with Kano Analysis
- Five Minute Lean – Organise Your Process with Five S
- Five Minute Lean – Introduction
- The Five Minute Catch-up
- Five Minute Lean – The Power of Incentives – What is Measured and Rewarded Improves
- Five Minute Lean – Go to the Gemba
- Five Minute Lean – Build in Quality with Error-Proofing and Autonomation
- Five Minute Lean – Put it Together With Design for Ease of Use
- Five Minute Lean – Create a Future State Value Stream Map
- Five Minute Lean – Get Your Map Started with a SIPOC
- Five Minute Lean: Glossary
- Five Minute Lean – Create a Pull System with FIFO, Kanban Triggers and Visual Management
- Five Minute Lean – Create a New Standard Procedure and Checklist for Quality Control