Value Stream Mapping Workbook
A Step-by-Step Lean Walk for Manufacturing Operations. Current State, Future State, and the 8 Wastes
Your kaizen events keep firing. Your lead time barely moves. You optimized a station and the bottleneck moved upstream. WIP between stations grew while everyone got faster. The OTD chart still has not budged. You do not have a station problem. You have a stream problem. Most lean transformations stall in the same place: teams skip Value Stream Mapping and jump straight to kaizen. Without a door-to-door view, every improvement is a guess. This workbook is the door-to-door view, built to be carried onto the floor with a clipboard, a pencil, and a stopwatch. Inside: a Setup Checklist, Process Inventory and Scope, Drawing the Current State Map, the 8 Wastes (TIMWOODS), Takt Time and Cycle Time and Lead Time math, Future State Mapping with the five design rules, Kaizen Bursts and Implementation Backlog, and Sustaining the Map. Manager Notes pages for every section. A fully worked Packaging Line VSM example. For production supervisors and area leads running their first value stream walk, plant managers preparing for a kaizen event, continuous improvement engineers who need a portable working tool, and quality and operations professionals briefing leadership on where the lead time is hiding. Pair with The VSM System by Wade Prescott, the companion guide that teaches the methodology behind the worksheets. The workbook is the doing. The guide is the thinking.
View on AmazonYour kaizen events keep firing. Your lead time barely moves. You optimized a station and the bottleneck moved upstream. WIP between stations grew while everyone got faster. The OTD chart still has not budged. You do not have a station problem. You have a stream problem.
Most lean transformations stall in the same place: teams skip Value Stream Mapping and jump straight to kaizen. Without a door-to-door view, every improvement is a guess. This workbook is the door-to-door view, built to be carried onto the floor with a clipboard, a pencil, and a stopwatch.
Inside: a Setup Checklist, Process Inventory and Scope, Drawing the Current State Map, the 8 Wastes (TIMWOODS), Takt Time and Cycle Time and Lead Time math, Future State Mapping with the five design rules, Kaizen Bursts and Implementation Backlog, and Sustaining the Map. Manager Notes pages for every section. A fully worked Packaging Line VSM example.
For production supervisors and area leads running their first value stream walk, plant managers preparing for a kaizen event, continuous improvement engineers who need a portable working tool, and quality and operations professionals briefing leadership on where the lead time is hiding.
Pair with The VSM System by Wade Prescott, the companion guide that teaches the methodology behind the worksheets. The workbook is the doing. The guide is the thinking.
