Value Stream Map
Value Stream Mapping software, training, & videos

Value Stream Map - Simple Drawing Tool

Easily draw a value stream map
using the value stream mapping symbols
known as "the language of Lean"
Video: How to use Excel to create drawings
without the expense and learning curve of Visio

Value Stream Management - Power Tool

Unhide pre-programmed Lean metrics as needed -
to answer questions about how your proposed changes are expected to affect performance measures

v7 now makes it truly easy to start with a simple drawing, and then unhide pro-programmed Lean metrics as needed

Download a free trial, and see for yourself

Supply Chain Value Stream Mapping

Anyone who has attempted to manage a value stream map beyond their own 4 walls knows that the Lean metrics are completely different. 

All of the most common supply chain metrics have been pre-programmed. And the charts are already there for Demand Screen, Quality Screen, and Demand Amplification Screen.

After getting their own "Lean act together", so many of our customers have told us that their suppliers became their weak link. Systems2win provides a full suite of Lean tools that you won't outgrow.

"Once you dive in and play with it, this is an excellent tool for mapping your supply chain process. I love the charts."
Hassan Hashem
Supplier Quality Development Manager, HNI Corp.

Process Steps List

Regardless of whether you are doing Lean Manufacturing or Lean Office, the second step is to walk the gemba (where the work is done) and write down a list of the process steps that you observe

And Systems2win makes Process Steps Analysis fast and easy

Product Family Matrix

The first step of value stream mapping is to identify your product families - (products and services sharing similar processes)

You will then create one value stream map per product family, and then (optionally) use scenarios to show different numbers for different products - all on one drawing!

Which is a vast time savings over entry-level value stream mapping software that requires you to maintain (and try to keep in sync) dozens of drawings that are almost identical

VSM Product Family Matrix

Take your value stream to another level

Import old state comparison data with a click of a button.
Analyze multiple scenarios on a single drawing.
Insert unlimited rows of user data -
with all the calculation power of Excel. 

Even if you already have dozens of legacy maps drawn with less capable software - you can still use the Systems2win Power Tool to answer the Lean metrics questions that your management team is becoming more and more savvy about asking

Value Stream Plan

To manage your value stream with clearly-defined objectives, goals, measures, responsibilities, and deadlines.

The ideal way to hold people accountable for results

• Introduction to your Systems2win value stream mapping tools
  • Value stream mapping video (10 min intro to Systems2win VSM tools)
  • Two tools: Simple Drawing tool and VSM-PowerTool with pre-programmed Lean calcs
  • Introduction to Lean Kaizen DMAIC Six Sigma (13 min training video)
• Lean Measures: pre-programmed calculations
  • Cycle Time video (10 mins also covers Effective Cycle Time, and Batch Size Optimization)
  • Every Part Every Interval to answer the question "When can I have it?"
  • Lead Time training video (5 mins)
  • Units of Measure (6 mins)
  • Add or Remove a Process  (1 min video)
  • Time Sum Lines and bottom line analysis (4 mins)
• Going beyond expectations
  • Scenarios - to analyze multiple scenarios on a single drawing (try doing that in Visio)
  • Import Old Comparison Data (video coming soon)
  • Using Value Stream Management as a Dashboard for Process Control
    (8 min training video for paperless management reporting)
• Additional training relevant to this template
  The Sample and Help worksheets of every template also contain training relevant to THAT template
  • Quick Start for trial templates (5 min video)
  • How to find Help & Training for any Systems2win template
  • How to use Excel to create drawings every bit as powerful as Visio
  • Value stream mapping symbols and concepts
  • Lean Time Definitions
  • Introduction to Systems2win templates (5 min video)
  • Training & Demos home page
  • Also see the rest of the Lean and Kaizen templates that come bundled with your VSM templates

   

What is Value Stream Mapping? The Value Stream Map is a special type of flow chart that uses symbols known as "the language of Lean" to depict and improve the flow of inventory and information. Use this popular Lean tool to design your production environments for continuous flow - as free as possible from various forms of waste. Introduction to Value Stream Mapping basic concepts (7 min intro to value stream mapping training video)

New features
in version 7

Released December, 2008

Hide / Unhide Rows button - to quickly unhide the rows containing the Lean metrics you need to answer a question - and then quickly re-hide them so that your value stream map looks uncluttered and simple.

VSM PowerTool is now both more powerful and easier to use -
You start out with most metrics hidden - making it easy to start with an uncluttered drawing  - and yet all of those Lean metrics are always only a click away as soon as you're ready to start analyzing, improving, and controling your value stream.

New Lean metrics - to calculate:

• Pitch - the pace that "the thing being processed" flows through the value stream
• Rolled First Pass Yield - the product of all % Complete and Accurate
• Activity Ratio and Value % of Time - often embarrassingly small numbers that dramatically illustrate how much room there is for improvement
• Staffing - how many full time employees will be required?
• Number of Steps, and Value Add Steps

Printable step by step instructions - to walk you through the entire process from step 1 through never-ending continuous improvement

Process Steps List and Analysis - to collect and organize your initial data gathered from walking the gemba (work area)

Import Old State Comparison Data - with the click of a button

Supply Chain Value Stream Mapping - an entirely new template with all Lean metrics pre-programmed to manage your entire supply chain

Trial version has fewer restrictions - so that you can more thoroughly try before you buy

New features
in version 6

Released March, 2008

New Systems2win menu in Word and Excel
* Even easier ways to find & open templates.
* New stencil of Link Icons - to create hyperlinks anywhere in your value stream map.
* New flag icons - to link multi-language documents.

Easily sync templates in each local PC with master templates in your S2winPortal.
* Easily distribute personalized templates to all of your users.
* Easier for consultants and laptop users to always have access to your latest templates - even when disconnected from your network.

50 sequential processes (and each can have a "double decker" simultaneous process)
Tip: Advanced Training on Help page teaches how to handle more than 2 simultaneous processes

Faster processing

New button to Add or Remove A Process (and all associated process boxes and formulas) with a single click.

Units of Measure conversions
Cycle Time can be seconds, minutes, or hours.
Lead Times can be instantly converted at any time between Working Days, Calendar Days, Weeks, and Hours.

Even better compatibility with more versions of Windows and Office.
* Better support for international languages, and international versions of Windows and Office.

What's New in Versions 5 & 6 (video) 

Learn even more about What's New

Hide/Unhide Rows with the click of a button

Import Old State Comparison button
with error checking to ensure valid comparison


Link Icons for fast, intuitive hyperlinks


Add or Remove a Process
(and all associated formulas)
with a single click

 

the first step of value stream mapping

the second step of value stream mapping

to answer more and more insightful questions as workers and managers become more and more Lean savvy

so that you don't confuse your audience with more than they are ready to learn

See our free online training videos
and compare to competitors where beyond a few simple calculations,
you are expected to export your data to Excel to write formulas from scratch

with all the power of Excel to consider unique factors affecting Work Time Available

the pace that work is actually released

as the product of % Complete and Accurate for all processes

and value add steps

to answer the question
"how many of these can we make?"

"how many full time employees will be required?"

for multiple what-if analyses on a single value stream map drawing - for different products within a product family, or for different levels of customer demand, or for different production situations...

taking into consideration ALL of the factors that affect capacity

"How many of these should we process at a time?"

to answer your salesperson's question: "What's the longest time a customer would ever have to wait to deliver anything we make?"

Tip: Check the math. 
And then ask questions like
"How is it possible to have 300% defects?"

based on greater of Takt Time Capacity Calc or Next Downstream Operation Capacity Calc

for lead time, cycle time, effective cycle time, processing time, value add time, steps, value add steps, and distance traveled both within and between processes

both within and between processes

Often embarrassingly small numbers that dramatically illustrate how much room there is for improvement

Without importing and exporting through some cumbersome proprietary interface that greatly limits Excel functionality

for parent/child processes, quality, safety, production scheduling, lean cost accounting, and any other value stream management data

See Dashboard Video

of any document format
using simple, familiar Link Icons

between Working Days, Calendar Days, Hours, or Weeks

seconds, minutes, or hours

with unlimited user-defined UOM conversions for things like pallet sizes, case sizes, Bill of Materials and lot sizes

by simply unhiding a "double decker" row with all math correctly pre-programmed

adding and removing the math associated with the process with the same button click

Engineering, and other pre- and post- production modeling

and every symbol looks just like the originals in the books Learning to See, and Seeing the Whole

Pre-programmed to work correctly - even with simultaneous processes

with all the power of Excel's built-in charts - and all available Excel add-ins

with the push of a button
and with error-checking to make sure that your imported data is a valid comparison

with special features to automatically sync your personalized templates out to every one of your licensed users - in a way that allows them to always have your latest personalized templates even when using a laptop far away from your local area network

Entirely separate template with pre-programmed Lean metrics and charts for supply chain planning

If you already know how to use Excel, you're already more than half trained

to walk you through the entire value stream mapping process from start to never-ending continuous improvement

not just manufacturing

with instructions for Excel 97-2003 in green
and (if different) Excel 2007 in orange

every bit as powerful as Visio

so you won't need to buy so many copies of those expensive books that are never nearby when you need them anyway

with special training and examples for how to use value stream mapping in non-manufacturing environments

Great for initial learning

Search any Systems2win help page using Ctrl+F
Great for finding fast answers

Without having to ask
"Now where did I save that stand-alone stencil file six months ago?"

With consistently structured training sections - so that you can easily find the help you're looking for in any Systems2win template

with interactive Learning Exercises

Lean time definitions, formulas, and examples are always within a mouse click, and our definitions are precise and correct, because we needed to write field-tested formulas

that is available to everyone, not just "premium subscribers"

by phone, email, or web conference

without the extra cost and learning curve of Visio or other third-party proprietary software
See FAQ for system requirements