A True Lean and Green Business System
Simple, Scalable and Repeatable
The VSEM design strategy enables the strengths of the Toyota Production System to be understood, implemented and continuously improved throughout your company, enterprise and extended supply chain.
VSEM provides a business focus using value streams to keep everyone aligned and thinking Lean and Green.
Value streams are the flow of products and/or services desired by customers through the supply chain of suppliers, manufacturers and distributors. Each 'link' in the supply chain maybe a value stream that feeds into another value stream.
Each value stream starts by capturing today's ways of working in a dynamic VSEM map and then using the VSEM lean analytics and the green analytics, the user designs, simulates and validates an improved future state value stream. The future state represents a collection of processes that are balanced, achievable and flexible as well as a matching roadmap of how to get there. This roadmap from current to future states is a set of definable, assignable and measurable kaizens.
Accurate material definitions and planning are critical to the overall success of any lean manufacturing initiative. VSEM provides the tools necessary to manage the mix of products within the family. For each product, the components are exploded back through the value stream to balance the item requirements of each process [both machine and labor] and to signal the pull all the way back to the suppliers.
High Product Mix - no problem...
Most companies have some amount of product mix and volume variation. VSEM provides tools to understand the mix of 'high runner, repeaters and strangers', analyze products using 'profile products' especially useful in the engineer or make to order environments and to identify the Product Family category using similar process steps [x-map]. In order to manage variation, VSEM provides as much detail as your company needs to define products, their bills of material, processes, machines and labor and the combination of each.
Managing the details enables a clear picture of true resource usage. The integrated data within VSEM proivdes immediate information about the GHG emissions [carbon footprint] of each demand pattern before releasing the orders to the heijunka schedule. In addition, the demand mix is verified against any environmental permits recorded to highlight any exceptions.
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