Creating Mixed Model Value Streams: Practical Lean Techniques for Building to Demand

by Kevin J. Duggan

Creating Mixed Model Value Streams is a hands-on primer for those seeking to implement lean in complex environments. When faced with complex or unique situations, companies often disregard lean principles and fall back on previous practices. In this book, Kevin Duggan describes the lean techniques that can be used when faced with difficult situations such as high product mix, scheduling problems, shared resources, and unstable customer demand. This book will give mangers the knowledge to guide their companies through these tough obstacles and to attain positive bottom line results! The author uses a step-by-step approach, illustrated through a case study based on actual experience, to go beyond the basics of value stream mapping and show how to create future states in the real manufacturing world of multiple products, varying cycle times, and changing demand. The book includes a CD-ROM featuring useful spreadsheets for sorting products into families and calculating equipment needs. Comprehensive and down-to-earth, Creating Mixed Model Value Streams provides the details and new techniques for implementing lean in the complex environment that manufacturers face on their own shop floors. The Accompanying CD-ROM includes:

Genres: Business, Management

224 pages, Paperback

Published November 7, 2002

Reviews

[Dennis]

De theorie van Lean Manufacturing is op zich heel eenvoudig. De praktische uitwerking ervan meestal niet.
Dit boek helpt je om de vertaalslag naar het echte leven en de echte productie-omstandigheden te maken.

Topics die behandeld worden:
* Mapping value streams in real-life manufacturing environments
* Developing future states that can respond to daily changes in customer demand
* Creating flow through the "pacemaker" process when products have different cycle times
* Setting up mixed model heijunka boxes that provide visual schedules at regular intervals
* Applying mix logic charts to determine finished-goods strategies and meet seasonal demand

[Kostiantyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

While “Learning to See” is the foundation of VSM and is definitely a must-read to understand the value stream mapping technique, this book seems to me to be no worse. In fact, I find it even better if the value stream map is already known or at least a seen thing. Very short, case-based, with many practical solutions and even more answers to the challenges that demand variations can bring.