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VASCO - Digging the Dead Man’s Chest of Value Streams

Authors:
René Berndt
Nelson Silva
Christian Caldera
Ulrich Krispel
Eva Eggeling
Alexander Sunk
Gerhard Reisinger
Wilfried Sihn
Dieter W. Fellner

Keywords: Value stream mapping; lean management; content authoring

Abstract:
Value stream mapping is a lean management method for analyzing and optimizing a series of events for production or services. Even today the first step in value stream analysis – the acquisition of the current state map – is still created using pen & paper by physically visiting the production line. We capture a digital representation of how manufacturing processes look like in reality. The manufacturing processes can be represented and efficiently analyzed for future production planning as a future state map by using a meta description together with a dependency graph. With VASCO we present a tool, which contributes to all parts of value stream analysis - from data acquisition, over analyzing, planning, comparison up to simulation of alternative future state maps.Wecallthis aholisticapproachfor Value stream mapping including detailed analysis of lead time, productivity, space, distance, material disposal, energy and carbon dioxide equivalents – depending in a change of calculated direct product costs.

Pages: 401 to 416

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2016. Used with permission.

Publication date: December 31, 2016

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2679