Elements and Performance Criteria
- Analyse production systems
- Acquire an 'as is' value map of the process for all major products
- Separate repeated products from specials
- Consult with production, maintenance, supervisory and management workforce on current production system and processes
- Identify process steps causing problems
- Analyse inventories within process and determine causes of high inventories
- Determine costs of problems and inventories
- Develop improved flow sequence and future value map
- Establish sequence
- Initiate or develop flow system
- Balance the work