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1 Release ECopyright 2001-2008 Lean Flow Consulting All Rights ReservedVALUE STREAM MAPPINGICONSI300 Pieces1 DayInventoryMovement of Production Material by PushingMovement of Finished Goods to the CustomerMaterialMilk RunSupermarketMaterial Pull or WithdrawalFIFO Transfer between processes (Controlled Quantities)Buffer or Safety StockASSEMBLYP rocessXYZC orporationOutside SourceMaterialInformationMRPC ontrol CenterManual Information FlowElectronic Information FlowWeeklyScheduleInformation20 Production Kanban (Dotted line indicates kanban path)Withdrawal KanbanSignal KanbanKanban Card Post or Collection BoxKanban Arriving in BatchesLoad LevelingSequenced Pull BallData BoxCross-DockWarehouse2 x YearPlane ShipmentMon.

2 + Shipment2 x DayTrain Shipment2 x MonthBoat ShipmentTakt = 50 Shifts25200 = 45 = 30 = 95%Scrap = 2%Max. 20 PiecesFIFOI nformationPhoneINOrders"Go-See" SchedulingGeneralOperatorC/O WeldKaizen LightningBurst15 daysProduction LeadTimeQQualityProblemFAXE-MAILFaxE-Mai lRelease ECopyright 2001-2008 Lean Flow Consulting All Rights ReservedASSEMBLYP rocessXYZC orporationOutside SourceData BoxCross-DockWarehouse2 x YearPlane ShipmentMon.+ Shipment2 x DayTrain Shipment2 x MonthBoat ShipmentTakt = 50 Shifts25200 = 45 = 30 = 95%Scrap = 2%Material One Process Box equals an area of flow.

3 All processes should be labeled. Also used for departments, such as Production to show Customers, Suppliers, and outside Manufacturing to record information concerning a Manufacturing Process, Department, Customer, are not stored but rather moved from In-Bound Trucks to shipping lanes for Out-Bound are placed in Storage Locations (Binned) and then picked for Out-Bound shipment at some later frequency of frequency of frequency of frequency of STREAM MAPPINGICONSR elease ECopyright 2001-2008 Lean Flow Consulting All Rights ReservedMaterial Count and Time should be Pieces1 DayInventoryMovement of Production Material by PushingMovement of Finished Goods to the CustomerMilk RunSupermarketMaterial Pull or WithdrawalFIFO Transfer between processes (Controlled Quantities)

4 Buffer or Safety StockMaterial that is produced and moved forward before the next Process needs it, usually based on a controlled Inventory of parts that is used to schedule production at an upstream Process. The open side faces the supplying of Materials, usually from a a method to Limit Quantity and assure FIFO Flow of Material between Processes. Maximum quantity should be noted."Buffer" or "Safety" Stock must be 20 PiecesFIFOVALUE STREAM MAPPINGICONSR elease ECopyright 2001-2008 Lean Flow Consulting All Rights ReservedInformation Often a Computerized System such as a Material Requirements Planning (MRP) example : Production or Shipping example : via Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).

5 Describes an Information "One-per-Container" kanban. Card or device that tells a Process how many of what can be produced and gives permission to do or device that instructs the Material Handler to get and transfer parts ( from a Supermarket to the Consuming Process).MRPC ontrol CenterManual Information FlowElectronic Information FlowWeeklyScheduleInformation20 Production Kanban (Dotted line indicates kanban path)Withdrawal KanbanSignal KanbanKanban Card Post or Collection BoxKanban Arriving in BatchesLoad LevelingSequenced Pull BallThe "One-per-Batch" kanban signals when a reorder point is reached and another batch needs to be produced.

6 Used where Supplying Process must produce in batches because changeovers are where kanban are collected and help for to intercept batches of kanban and level the volume and mixof them over a period of time (Pitch).Gives instructions to immediately produce a pre-determined type and quantity, typically one unit. A pull system for subassembly processes without using a STREAM MAPPINGICONSR elease ECopyright 2001-2008 Lean Flow Consulting All Rights ReservedAdjusts Schedules based on checking inventory for Expedited in Electronic a Person viewed from Improvement needs on a Value Stream Map at specific processes that are critical to achieving the Value Stream Vision, can be used to plan Kaizen processes & inventories ICONS , they are used to calculate Total Flow Process Lead Time (FPLT)

7 And Total Product Cycle Time, to bring a product from order to "Go-See" SchedulingGeneralOperatorC/O WeldKaizen LightningBurst15 daysProcessingTimeTime Production LeadTimeQQualityProblemInformation FAXFaxE-MAILE-MailVALUE STREAM MAPPINGICONS