The Diagnosis - part -1 of 5
It has been quite a time i have posted here!
Well I was quite pressed up with some important assignments at work! Coming back to my commitment of posting about the "Lean Diagnosis" let me start with something which we must have heard of very much till now, it's the foundation stone, the blue print for a comprehensive diagnosis.
Yes you guessed it right, it’s Value Stream Mapping or VSM or as McKinsey calls it MIFA that is Material & Information Flow & Analysis.
The name might sound a bit nerdy but it has little or no nerdiness about, infact its a layman’s guide to the processes happening in the facility (factory/office/warehouse.. or whatever...), the information flow routes, modes of communication and in a nut shell whatever goes into making the product or service available.
The VSM is the Swiss knife of lean which depicts, denotes & identifies the processes & information in the facility creating the product or service for that matter.
There are two types of VSMs .. naah dont you worry I am not getting nerdy again, its quite simple, if you have mapped the existing processes & delays you will be certainly interested to improve it!
Well I was quite pressed up with some important assignments at work! Coming back to my commitment of posting about the "Lean Diagnosis" let me start with something which we must have heard of very much till now, it's the foundation stone, the blue print for a comprehensive diagnosis.
Yes you guessed it right, it’s Value Stream Mapping or VSM or as McKinsey calls it MIFA that is Material & Information Flow & Analysis.
The name might sound a bit nerdy but it has little or no nerdiness about, infact its a layman’s guide to the processes happening in the facility (factory/office/warehouse.. or whatever...), the information flow routes, modes of communication and in a nut shell whatever goes into making the product or service available.
The VSM is the Swiss knife of lean which depicts, denotes & identifies the processes & information in the facility creating the product or service for that matter.
There are two types of VSMs .. naah dont you worry I am not getting nerdy again, its quite simple, if you have mapped the existing processes & delays you will be certainly interested to improve it!
MIFA - Current State
Yes, you get the point, VSM/MIFA Current state - something which shows the facility's current operations and the VSM/MIFA Future state which removes the wastes depicted (see the first post on wastes)
MIFA - Future State
To be continued......
posted by iniy at 11:30 AM
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