This is a step by step guide to creating a current state value stream map, the first step in working towards your ideal state value stream and a truly lean system. Your current state value stream map is a team effort that is conducted by those people who are involved in the process, at the actual process, not by an expert locked in a room with a pile of procedures.
Below we will go through;
Selecting the product (family) to map
VSM Symbols
Defining the process boundaries
The Process Steps
Information Flows
Process Data
Calculating the Time Line
Multiple Suppliers and Customers
Interpreting the Data
Next Steps (Ideal and future state maps)