Title: Value Stream Mapping Application on Mould Making Industry: Results and Discussion
Abstract: This paper presents the results of a project aiming to understand the viability of value stream mapping techniques on the “one of a kind production” context typical of mould making industry. More than having a representation of a standard process, the idea is to use the mapping techniques to support the analysis and the discussion of the time-oriented performance of the whole manufacturing process. The project involved the creation of a VSM application tool which improves the analysis of the mould making critical processes, the automatic calculation of the main process indicators, and the generation of the value stream map of each process under analysis. Several mould makers were involved to support the design of the tool and to evaluate its potential in guiding purposeful improvement actions. The results presented are quite satisfactory. Even if the process is not a repetitive one, its time-oriented performance analysis reproduces repetitive time waste patterns in each company. Moreover, the visual nature of VSM techniques facilitates the process understanding and leads the improvement teams in focusing towards the global improvement.
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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