Chapter 6: Launching the VSM Initiative (VSM Steps 1-3)

1. Implementing Lean concepts within an organization and making Lean development and delivery processes a way of life.
2. Lean companies are more competitive than others because they continuously improve their business operations. Lean enterprises are more employee-friendly because they have respect for their work, and delegate responsibilities to the people doing the work. They also help to minimize the bureaucracy and hierarchical organizational structures that get in the way of productivity and ultimately cause employee stress and burnout.
3. Ask questions to determine the states of flow, order processing, lost sizes, customer demands, state of cleanliness and orderliness, inventory management, equipment setups, and product changeovers.
4. Demand, Flow, and Leveling
5. When you are just starting your VSM initiative, you may not yet know what good looks like in Lean performance and waste metrics.
6. Heijunka is a load...