Abstract:A wide-spread approach to foster production and logistics related improvements on a system level is value stream mapping (VSM). It is often used as a starting point for implementing lean manufacturing in producing companies. VSM as a modeling approach contains two major phases – one is the analysis, another one the design phase. During these there is always the question of getting accurate information out of the production system to enable a constructive improvement. It can be distinguished between direct data… Show more
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