Comments on: Apples & Oranges: Value-Stream Mapping in a Low-Volume/High-Mix Environment https://www.lean.org/the-lean-post/articles/apples-oranges-value-stream-mapping-in-a-low-volume-high-mix-environment/ Lean Production | Lean Manufacturing | LEI | Lean Services Thu, 30 Nov 2023 16:48:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Linyi Pan https://www.lean.org/the-lean-post/articles/apples-oranges-value-stream-mapping-in-a-low-volume-high-mix-environment/#comment-43277 Mon, 19 Sep 2022 04:11:01 +0000 https://lei.flywheelsites.com/the-lean-post/articles/apples-oranges-value-stream-mapping-in-a-low-volume-high-mix-environment/#comment-43277 it is interesting that I had this before. In normally way, VSM starts from product family. I think “product” is kind over focus. It is similar that people over focus on “production” from “Toyota Production system”. On one hand, we have to satisfy customer demand. Here “product” is typical meaning of “product”. While looking internally, we need to find a way to make customer satisfied in term of “product” as well as not make ourselves trouble in term of production. So balance between product family and process family together help determine the flow.

I did this many time before.

]]> By: Shahrukh Irani https://www.lean.org/the-lean-post/articles/apples-oranges-value-stream-mapping-in-a-low-volume-high-mix-environment/#comment-42523 Wed, 14 Sep 2022 11:13:47 +0000 https://lei.flywheelsites.com/the-lean-post/articles/apples-oranges-value-stream-mapping-in-a-low-volume-high-mix-environment/#comment-42523 Have you heard about Value Network Mapping? Production Flow Analysis? Job Shop Lean? Production Flow Amalysis and Simplification Toolkit? Schedlyzer? This work you present can be done better if you skip using VSM.

]]> By: Jay Iles https://www.lean.org/the-lean-post/articles/apples-oranges-value-stream-mapping-in-a-low-volume-high-mix-environment/#comment-31910 Tue, 05 Jul 2022 17:57:23 +0000 https://lei.flywheelsites.com/the-lean-post/articles/apples-oranges-value-stream-mapping-in-a-low-volume-high-mix-environment/#comment-31910 In reply to Robert Van Mol.

In LVHM, cycle times often are not available. Estimators need to be accurate when quoting and the estimated times are used.

]]> By: Robert Van Mol https://www.lean.org/the-lean-post/articles/apples-oranges-value-stream-mapping-in-a-low-volume-high-mix-environment/#comment-26493 Fri, 29 Apr 2022 05:47:27 +0000 https://lei.flywheelsites.com/the-lean-post/articles/apples-oranges-value-stream-mapping-in-a-low-volume-high-mix-environment/#comment-26493 I assume that you would need the cycle times first before creating the VSM for it?
What if the cycle times are not available as in a LVHM environment this would be very challenging?

]]> By: Ralph Kuehnle https://www.lean.org/the-lean-post/articles/apples-oranges-value-stream-mapping-in-a-low-volume-high-mix-environment/#comment-16870 Wed, 02 Feb 2022 03:08:26 +0000 https://lei.flywheelsites.com/the-lean-post/articles/apples-oranges-value-stream-mapping-in-a-low-volume-high-mix-environment/#comment-16870 Isn‘t this the classical Part-Quantity-Process-Routing (PQPR) approach?

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