Improvement Requires Teamwork and Understanding
Making breakthrough improvement requires out of the box, cross-functional thinking. You have to see the 7 wastes across the entire flow of work to gain the clarity to eliminate them. Value Stream Mapping is a tool to help you visualize your Current State in order to realize the Future State .
Value Stream Mapping is a powerful tool for analyzing information and material flow throughout or between organizations in order to identify and plan improvements. Value Stream Mapping provides the clarity to reduce inventory and improve lead time, plan and identify kaizen events for optimum effectiveness, and allow participants from different parts of an organization to gain an understanding of the overall information and material flow.
iGrafx understands the importance of having Lean practitioners walk the shop floor and create the Value Stream Map by hand. We also understand that having the ability to share these maps for review and analysis with other parts of the organization is critical to reaching the overall Lean objectives. In order to meet this need, iGrafx added Value Stream mapping capabilities within the iGrafx solution offering.
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iGrafx® software is the perfect solution for converting maps created by 'walking the floor' into electronic format for easy sharing, archival and management. iGrafx offers the leading process visualization and modeling tool to help organizations achieve business process excellence. With state-of-the-art diagramming capabilities, Lean professionals can easily create Value Stream Maps; pick charts, SIPOC diagrams, and more.
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iGrafx® software offers the following Value Stream Mapping benefits:
- Save time re-drawing and editing your Value Stream Maps.
- Easily publish your professional looking diagrams to web or presentations.
- Automatically draws timeline and calculates Lead Time and Process Cycle Efficiency.
- Improve communication and awareness through easy to understand diagrams based on accepted Lean standards.
- Quickly identify process steps that are not aligned with Takt time.
- Gain an accurate understanding of changes prior to implementation through what-if analysis.
- Create diagrams using the included VSM template or customize to your corporate standard.
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