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Learning to See: Value Stream Mapping to Add Value and Eliminate MUDA | 
 enlarge | Authors: Mike Rother, John Shook
Creators: Jim Womack, Dan Jones
Publisher: Lean Enterprise Institute
Category: Book
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 3793
Media: Spiral-bound
Pages: 102
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.8 x 0.6
ISBN: 0966784308
Dewey Decimal Number: 370
EAN: 9780966784305
ASIN: 0966784308
Publication Date: June 1, 1999
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Product Description
When John Shook worked at Toyota he noticed that the senior experts on the Toyota Production System often drew simple maps when on the shop floor. These maps showed the current physical flow of a product family and the information flow for that product family as they wound through a complex facility making many products.
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 The Best Value Stream Instruction Book ever written... October 8, 2008
Mitchel Martin
This is THE VSM book for people wanting to learn Value-stream mapping. Although it is a bit expensive, it is well worth it. I recommend this book to every Business Process Improvement class I teach and have never received anything but positive feedback from the people who have purchased it. This book teaches you how to "think lean" by showing you how to work through a simple project and manually draw out VSM's.
The Lean Institute [...] is a wealth of Lean and Value-stream information, and has additional resources that can help you on your way to becoming an expert Lean process analyst.
Once you have learned to draw VSM's manually and need a better (and faster) way, I recommend iGrafx software, as it uses the same methodology, terminology and objects that you will learn in this treasure of a book.
 Learning to draw valuestream diagrams! October 22, 2006
F. H. Van Saarloos (The Netherlands)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
Book info : 3rd edition published in 2003.
Pre required knowledge: SMED, Continuous Flow Manufacturing
Purchased price : USD 17,50
This book is a workbook, it does not handle a lot of theoretical stuff on LEAN. Also it relies on SMED and Continuous flow manufacturing and KANBAN, so if you're not familiar with that, you will need to do some reading on those topics as well.
Basically this book gives you a technique how do draw you current value stream with all the necessary details. Next it explains how to draw your future value stream and what to do to get there (on paper and on the shop floor). Be careful it does not say how to get there
The book is not very complicated and the way it is explained every fool can do the trick. What I found pity was that the majority of the book goes on the production process. It does not say a lot on the office value stream. Still, I can recommend this book to everybody that is looking for a practical starter on LEAN.
So you want to learn how to map the value stream? November 22, 2004
Lean Manufacturing Engineer (Overland Park, KS USA)
22 out of 26 found this review helpful
This is definitely THE starter book to learn vsm. Yes more examples would help, and yes so much information is covered by such little prose. The more I learn and practice lean, The more I am convinced of the importance in using value stream mapping to insure that the lean implementation process benefits the value stream (the so called critical path of the production process).
This key concept is where Six Sigma fails, and that is how do you select a Six Sigma Project that is going to impact the value stream?
The authors almost dare you to work through the ONE example you are to analyze on your own but LEARNING TO SEE starts you on the way to becoming a lean sensei.
STUDY STUDY STUDY this book.
Customer Review August 16, 2004
A. Lwowski (Toronto)
15 out of 20 found this review helpful
This book is written just like a book on lean manufacturing should be: short, to the point, and no crap. It's very informative, easy to read, a no academic wishy-washy stuff. A great buy!
Just Do It... February 28, 2004
Brad Harrison (Interlochen, MI USA)
30 out of 32 found this review helpful
I have completely worn out my copy of this book. It is the simplest, clearest, most practical book on lean that you will ever find. The first time I used the Value Stream Mapping techniques outlined in this book, I identified an improvement that has dramatically reduced our inventory, reduced lead times and saved over $500K annually.Section III, entitled, "What Makes A value Stream Lean" is especially helpful. By doing the mapping and working toward the seven guidelines outlined in this section, we have made dramatic progress in our lean transformation. Using "Learning To See" in conjunction with another offering from the Lean Enterprise Institute ("Making Material Flow"), you can transform your plant. The only other requirement... get out from behind your desk and just do it! I cannot recommend this book highly enough!
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