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News Release from: American Technical Publishers | Subject: Videos - Value Stream Management
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 04 September 2002
Videos teach about value stream mapping
for lean
Free demo videos are available to manufacturers who want to learn more about value stream mapping - a process for managing their entire lean manufacturing transformation.
Free demo videos are available to manufacturers who want to learn more about value stream mapping American Technical Publishers is giving away free demo videos of their video training package, Value Stream Management: Eight Steps to Planning, Mapping, and Sustaining Lean Improvements
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 15 Apr 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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The seven-tape video series begins with an overview of value stream management and the basics of lean.
It then takes manufacturers step-by-step through the process of creating their own value stream maps.
The eight steps of value stream management are commit to lean, choose the value stream, learn about lean, map the current state, determine lean metrics, map the future state, create kaizen plans, and implement kaizen plans.
A unique feature of this video-training package is a simulation case study of Premiere Manufacturing Company, which is a composite of actual company experiences.
Manufacturers will learn how to map and improve the flow of production at Premiere, then apply the same tools to their own plant.
Another unique tool presented is the Storyboard, which documents and communicates the entire process to keep the implementation process on track.
Value Stream Management wraps up with a computer generated "virtual factory" that shows how the system comes together and how lean works.
Value Stream Management includes seven videotapes, a facilitator guide, five participant guides, and a CD with all of the maps, worksheets and forms.
The facilitator guide breaks down each of the steps of value stream management into easy to teach and implement chunks.
The free demo video gives an overview of the entire Value Stream Management package and features some of the in-plant interviews and examples of value stream management at Mercedes Benz, The Wiremold Company, Pella Windows, and Thetford Corporation.
The free demo video for Value Stream Management is available from American Technical Publishers at
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